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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

In this paper, we present a dataset of inter-language knowledge propagation in Wikipedia. Covering the entire 309 language editions and 33M articles, the dataset aims to track the full propagation history of Wikipedia concepts, and allow…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Roldolfo Valentim , Giovanni Comarela , Souneil Park , Diego Saez-Trumper

Automated content moderation for collaborative knowledge hubs like Wikipedia or Wikidata is an important yet challenging task due to multiple factors. In this paper, we construct a database of discussions happening around articles marked…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Hsuvas Borkakoty , Luis Espinosa-Anke

One of the most impressive human endeavors of the past two decades is the collection and categorization of human knowledge in the free and accessible format that is Wikipedia. In this work we ask what makes a term worthy of entering this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Yonatan Bilu , Shai Gretz , Edo Cohen , Noam Slonim

Wikipedia serves as a good example of how editors collaborate to form and maintain an article. The relationship between editors, derived from their sequence of editing activity, results in a directed network structure called the revision…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-18 James R. Ashford , Liam D. Turner , Roger M. Whitaker , Alun Preece , Diane Felmlee , Don Towsley

A Wikipedia book (known as Wikibook) is a collection of Wikipedia articles on a particular theme that is organized as a book. We propose Wikibook-Bot, a machine-learning based technique for automatically generating high quality Wikibooks…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Shahar Admati , Lior Rokach , Bracha Shapira

As one of the richest sources of encyclopedic information on the Web, Wikipedia generates an enormous amount of traffic. In this paper, we study large-scale article access data of the English Wikipedia in order to compare articles with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Dimitar Dimitrov , Florian Lemmerich , Fabian Flöck , Markus Strohmaier

We show that generating English Wikipedia articles can be approached as a multi- document summarization of source documents. We use extractive summarization to coarsely identify salient information and a neural abstractive model to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Peter J. Liu , Mohammad Saleh , Etienne Pot , Ben Goodrich , Ryan Sepassi , Lukasz Kaiser , Noam Shazeer

Hoaxes are a recognised form of disinformation created deliberately, with potential serious implications in the credibility of reference knowledge resources such as Wikipedia. What makes detecting Wikipedia hoaxes hard is that they often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Hsuvas Borkakoty , Luis Espinosa-Anke

A growing body of work has highlighted the important role that Wikipedia's volunteer-created content plays in helping search engines achieve their core goal of addressing the information needs of millions of people. In this paper, we report…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Nicholas Vincent , Brent Hecht

References are an essential part of Wikipedia. Each statement in Wikipedia should be referenced. In this paper, we explore the creation and collection of references for new Wikipedia articles from an editors' perspective. We map out the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Lucie-Aimée Kaffee , Hady Elsahar

Wikipedia serves as a globally accessible knowledge source with content in over 300 languages. Despite covering the same topics, the different versions of Wikipedia are written and updated independently. This leads to factual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Silvia Cappa , Lingxiao Kong , Pille-Riin Peet , Fanfu Wei , Yuchen Zhou , Jan-Christoph Kalo

We present an analysis of the statistical properties and growth of the free on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia. By describing topics by vertices and hyperlinks between them as edges, we can represent this encyclopedia as a directed graph. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Capocci , V. D. P. Servedio , F. Colaiori , L. S. Buriol , D. Donato , S. Leonardi , G. Caldarelli

Wikipedia is the largest open knowledge corpus, widely used worldwide and serving as a key resource for training large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. Ensuring its accuracy is therefore critical. But…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sina J. Semnani , Jirayu Burapacheep , Arpandeep Khatua , Thanawan Atchariyachanvanit , Zheng Wang , Monica S. Lam

Nowadays, thanks to Web 2.0 technologies, people have the possibility to generate and spread contents on different social media in a very easy way. In this context, the evaluation of the quality of the information that is available online…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Elias Bassani , Marco Viviani

Wikipedia categories, a classification scheme built for organizing and describing Wikpedia articles, are being applied in computer science research. This paper adopts a systematic literature review approach, in order to identify different…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Jesús Tramullas , Piedad Garrido-Picazo , Ana I. Sánchez-Casabón

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

A prerequisite is anything that you need to know or understand first before attempting to learn or understand something new. In the current work, we present a method of finding prerequisite relations between concepts using related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Shivam Pal , Vipul Arora , Pawan Goyal

Wikipedia is a huge opportunity for machine learning, being the largest semi-structured base of knowledge available. Because of this, many works examine its contents, and focus on structuring it in order to make it usable in learning tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Tiphaine Viard , Thomas McLachlan , Hamidreza Ghader , Satoshi Sekine

While Wikipedia has been utilized for fact-checking and claim verification to debunk misinformation and disinformation, it is essential to either improve article quality and rule out noisy articles. Self-contradiction is one of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Cheng Hsu , Cheng-Te Li , Diego Saez-Trumper , Yi-Zhan Hsu