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Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-02-27 Arkaitz Zubiaga

Wikipedia articles aim to be definitive sources of encyclopedic content. Yet, only 0.6% of Wikipedia articles have high quality according to its quality scale due to insufficient number of Wikipedia editors and enormous number of articles.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Sumit Asthana , Sabrina Tobar Thommel , Aaron Lee Halfaker , Nikola Banovic

Wikipedia, as a social phenomenon of collaborative knowledge creating, has been studied extensively from various points of views. The category system of Wikipedia, introduced in 2004, has attracted relatively little attention. In this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-06 Krzysztof Suchecki , Alkim Almila Akdag Salah , Cheng Gao , Andrea Scharnhorst

The traditional entity extraction problem lies in the ability of extracting named entities from plain text using natural language processing techniques and intensive training from large document collections. Examples of named entities…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-11-21 Anne-Marie Vercoustre , James A. Thom , Jovan Pehcevski

Wikipedia has high-quality articles on a variety of topics and has been used in diverse research areas. In this study, a method is presented for using Wikipedia's editor information to build recommender systems in various domains that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Katsuhiko Hayashi

In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis and monitoring framework for the impact of Large Language Models (LLMs) on Wikipedia, examining the evolution of Wikipedia through existing data and using simulations to explore potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Siming Huang , Yuliang Xu , Mingmeng Geng , Yao Wan , Dongping Chen

Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in the world and is also a frequent subject of scientific research. However, the analytical possibilities of Wikipedia information have not yet been analyzed considering at the same time both a…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado , Daniel Torres-Salinas , Rodrigo Costas

We present a new concept - Wikiometrics - the derivation of metrics and indicators from Wikipedia. Wikipedia provides an accurate representation of the real world due to its size, structure, editing policy and popularity. We demonstrate an…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Gilad Katz , Lior Rokach

YouTube, a world-famous video sharing website, maintains a list of the top trending videos on the platform. Due to its huge amount of users, it enables researchers to understand people's preference by analyzing the trending videos. Trending…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Songyang Zhang , Tolga Aktas , Jiebo Luo

Human activities can be seen as sequences of events, which are crucial to understanding societies. Disproportional event distribution for different demographic groups can manifest and amplify social stereotypes, and potentially jeopardize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Jiao Sun , Nanyun Peng

Geopolitics focuses on political power in relation to geographic space. Interactions among world countries have been widely studied at various scales, observing economic exchanges, world history or international politics among others. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Klaus M. Frahm , Samer El Zant , Katia Jaffrès-Runser , Dima L. Shepelyansky

Knowledge discovery and collection are intelligence-intensive tasks that traditionally require significant human effort to ensure high-quality outputs. Recent research has explored multi-agent frameworks for automating Wikipedia-style…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Zhongyu Yang , Jun Chen , Dannong Xu , Junjie Fei , Xiaoqian Shen , Liangbing Zhao , Chun-Mei Feng , Mohamed Elhoseiny

Working with Web archives raises a number of issues caused by their temporal characteristics. Depending on the age of the content, additional knowledge might be needed to find and understand older texts. Especially facts about entities are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Helge Holzmann , Thomas Risse

Online encyclopediae like Wikipedia contain large amounts of text that need frequent corrections and updates. The new information may contradict existing content in encyclopediae. In this paper, we focus on rewriting such dynamically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Darsh J Shah , Tal Schuster , Regina Barzilay

The present study proposes a novel method of trend detection and visualization - more specifically, modeling the change in a topic over time. Where current models used for the identification and visualization of trends only convey the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Angad Sandhu , Aneesh Edara , Vishesh Narayan , Faizan Wajid , Ashok Agrawala

We introduce a method for transliteration generation that can produce transliterations in every language. Where previous results are only as multilingual as Wikipedia, we show how to use training data from Wikipedia as surrogate training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Stephen Mayhew , Christos Christodoulopoulos , Dan Roth

By linking to external websites, Wikipedia can act as a gateway to the Web. To date, however, little is known about the amount of traffic generated by Wikipedia's external links. We fill this gap in a detailed analysis of usage logs…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Tiziano Piccardi , Miriam Redi , Giovanni Colavizza , Robert West

Wikipedia is the biggest encyclopedia ever created and the fifth most visited website in the world. Tens of millions of people surf it every day, seeking answers to various questions. Collective user activity on its pages leaves publicly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Volodymyr Miz , Kirell Benzi , Benjamin Ricaud , Pierre Vandergheynst

To explain social phenomena and identify systematic biases, much research in computational social science focuses on comparative text analyses. These studies often rely on coarse corpus-level statistics or local word-level analyses, mainly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Farhan Samir , Chan Young Park , Anjalie Field , Vered Shwartz , Yulia Tsvetkov

Keyphrase is an efficient representation of the main idea of documents. While background knowledge can provide valuable information about documents, they are rarely incorporated in keyphrase extraction methods. In this paper, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Yang Yu , Vincent Ng