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We propose DailyQA, an automatically updated dynamic dataset that updates questions weekly and contains answers to questions on any given date. DailyQA utilizes daily updates from Wikipedia revision logs to implement a fully automated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Jiehan Cheng , Zhicheng Dou

Modern entity linking systems rely on large collections of documents specifically annotated for the task (e.g., AIDA CoNLL). In contrast, we propose an approach which exploits only naturally occurring information: unlabeled documents and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Phong Le , Ivan Titov

The use of domain knowledge is generally found to improve query efficiency in content filtering applications. In particular, tangible benefits have been achieved when using knowledge-based approaches within more specialized fields, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Pekka Malo , Pyry Siitari , Oskar Ahlgren , Jyrki Wallenius , Pekka Korhonen

Wikimedia content is used extensively by the AI community and within the language modeling community in particular. In this paper, we provide a review of the different ways in which Wikimedia data is curated to use in NLP tasks across…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Isaac Johnson , Lucie-Aimée Kaffee , Miriam Redi

In this paper we present a profile-based approach to information filtering by an analysis of the content of text documents. The Wikipedia index database is created and used to automatically generate the user profile from the user document…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-05-08 A. V. Smirnov , A. A. Krizhanovsky

It is widely accepted that so-called facts can be checked by searching for information on the Internet. This process requires a fact-checker to formulate a search query based on the fact and to present it to a search engine. Then, relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Nestor Prieto-Chavana , Julie Weeds , David Weir

Text simplification research has mostly focused on sentence-level simplification, even though many desirable edits - such as adding relevant background information or reordering content - may require document-level context. Prior work has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Philippe Laban , Jesse Vig , Wojciech Kryscinski , Shafiq Joty , Caiming Xiong , Chien-Sheng Wu

The internet gives the world an open platform to express their views and share their stories. While this is very valuable, it makes fake news one of our society's most pressing problems. Manual fact checking process is time consuming, which…

With the rise in mobile and voice search, answer passage retrieval acts as a critical component of an effective information retrieval system for open domain question answering. Currently, there are no comparable collections that address…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Daniel Cohen , Liu Yang , W. Bruce Croft

Wikipedia, the world largest encyclopedia contains a lot of knowledge that is expressed as formulae exclusively. Unfortunately, this knowledge is currently not fully accessible by intelligent information retrieval systems. This immense body…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2013-04-22 Moritz Schubotz

Automated fact-checking is a needed technology to curtail the spread of online misinformation. One current framework for such solutions proposes to verify claims by retrieving supporting or refuting evidence from related textual sources.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Yibing Du , Antoine Bosselut , Christopher D. Manning

Benchmarks such as MMLU suggest flagship language models approach factuality saturation, with scores above 90\%. We show this picture is incomplete. \emph{LLMpedia} generates encyclopedic articles entirely from parametric memory, producing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Muhammed Saeed , Simon Razniewski

This paper presents the first few-shot LLM-based chatbot that almost never hallucinates and has high conversationality and low latency. WikiChat is grounded on the English Wikipedia, the largest curated free-text corpus. WikiChat generates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Sina J. Semnani , Violet Z. Yao , Heidi C. Zhang , Monica S. Lam

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

Researchers have found that fake news spreads much times faster than real news. This is a major problem, especially in today's world where social media is the key source of news for many among the younger population. Fact verification,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Suryavardan Suresh , Anku Rani , Parth Patwa , Aishwarya Reganti , Vinija Jain , Aman Chadha , Amitava Das , Amit Sheth , Asif Ekbal

Wikipedia has evolved beyond its original function as an online encyclopedia in an increasingly complex data-driven society. The social platform is met with a balancing act between collective intelligence and mass surveillance; processes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Simon Liu

Hyperlinks and other relations in Wikipedia are a extraordinary resource which is still not fully understood. In this paper we study the different types of links in Wikipedia, and contrast the use of the full graph with respect to just…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-16 Eneko Agirre , Ander Barrena , Aitor Soroa

Wikipedia, a paradigmatic example of online knowledge space is organized in a collaborative, bottom-up way with voluntary contributions, yet it maintains a level of reliability comparable to that of traditional encyclopedias. The lack of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-24 Fumiko Ogushi , János Kertész , Kimmo Kaski , Takashi Shimada

Fact-checking on major platforms, such as X, Meta, and TikTok, is shifting from expert-driven verification to a community-based setup, where users contribute explanatory notes to clarify why a post might be misleading. An important…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Rui Xing , Preslav Nakov , Timothy Baldwin , Jey Han Lau

Online encyclopedia such as Wikipedia has become one of the best sources of knowledge. Much effort has been devoted to expanding and enriching the structured data by automatic information extraction from unstructured text in Wikipedia.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-06-26 Kezun Zhang , Yanghua Xiao , Hanghang Tong , Haixun Wang , Wei Wang