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Automatic quality evaluation of Web information is a task with many fields of applications and of great relevance, especially in critical domains like the medical one. We move from the intuition that the quality of content of medical Web…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Vittoria Cozza , Marinella Petrocchi , Angelo Spognardi

The quality of a document is affected by various factors, including grammaticality, readability, stylistics, and expertise depth, making the task of document quality assessment a complex one. In this paper, we explore this task in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Aili Shen , Bahar Salehi , Timothy Baldwin , Jianzhong Qi

The verifiability of online information is important, but difficult to assess systematically. We examine verifiability in the case of Wikipedia, one of the world's largest and most consulted online information sources. We extend prior work…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-18 Reed H. Harder , Alfredo J. Velasco , Michael S. Evans , Daniel N. Rockmore

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

Wikipedia's perceived high quality and broad language coverage have established it as a fundamental resource in NLP. However, in recent years, such assumptions of high quality have become the subject of scrutiny in low-resource and…

A simple dynamical model of collective edit activity of Wikipedia articles and their content evolution is introduced. Based on the recent empirical findings, each editor in the model is characterized by an ability to make content edit,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-04-25 Takashi Shimada , Fumiko Ogushi , Janos Torok , Janos Kertesz , Kimmo Kaski

\emph{Verifiability} is one of the core editing principles in Wikipedia, editors being encouraged to provide citations for the added content. For a Wikipedia article, determining the \emph{citation span} of a citation, i.e. what content is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Besnik Fetahu , Katja Markert , Avishek Anand

The different Wikipedia language editions vary dramatically in how comprehensive they are. As a result, most language editions contain only a small fraction of the sum of information that exists across all Wikipedias. In this paper, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Ellery Wulczyn , Robert West , Leila Zia , Jure Leskovec

Using 16,068 articles in Wikipedia's Medicine Wikiproject, we study the relationship between collaboration and quality. We assess whether certain collaborative patterns are associated with information quality in terms of self-evaluated…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Gerald C. Kane , Sam Ransbotham

The voluntary process of Wikipedia edition provides an environment where the outcome is clearly a collective product of interactions involving a large number of people. We propose a simple agent-based model, developed from real data, to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-22 Y. Gandica , F. Sampaio dos Aidos , J. Carvalho

Ordinal classification models assign higher penalties to predictions further away from the true class. As a result, they are appropriate for relevant diagnostic tasks like disease progression prediction or medical image grading. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Adrian Galdran

Over the last few years, verifying the credibility of information sources has become a fundamental need to combat disinformation. Here, we present a language-agnostic model designed to assess the reliability of web domains as sources in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Jacopo D'Ignazi , Andreas Kaltenbrunner , Yelena Mejova , Michele Tizzani , Kyriaki Kalimeri , Mariano Beiró , Pablo Aragón

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

The Internet-based encyclopaedia Wikipedia has grown to become one of the most visited web-sites on the Internet. However, critics have questioned the quality of entries, and an empirical study has shown Wikipedia to contain errors in a…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Finn Aarup Nielsen

In this paper we seek to understand the relationship between the online popularity of an article and its intrinsic quality. Prior experimental work suggests that the relationship between quality and popularity can be very distorted due to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Greg Stoddard

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of cooperative principle on the information quality (IQ) by making objects more relevant for consumer needs, in particular case Wikipedia articles for students.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Miloš Fidler , Dejan Lavbič

Millions of people irrespective of socioeconomic and demographic backgrounds, depend on Wikipedia articles everyday for keeping themselves informed regarding popular as well as obscure topics. Articles have been categorized by editors into…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Bhanu Prakash Reddy , Sasi Bhusan , Soumya Sarkar , Animesh Mukherjee

A thermodynamic framework is presented to characterize the evolution of efficiency, order, and quality in social content production systems, and this framework is applied to the analysis of Wikipedia. Contributing editors are characterized…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-04-18 Huan-Kai Peng , Ying Zhang , Peter Pirolli , Tad Hogg

Order is one of the main instruments to measure the relationship between objects in (empirical) data. However, compared to methods that use numerical properties of objects, the amount of ordinal methods developed is rather small. One reason…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Gerd Stumme , Dominik Dürrschnabel , Tom Hanika

A bag-of-words based probabilistic classifier is trained using regularized logistic regression to detect vandalism in the English Wikipedia. Isotonic regression is used to calibrate the class membership probabilities. Learning curve,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-01-06 Amit Belani