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With 60M articles in more than 300 language versions, Wikipedia is the largest platform for open and freely accessible knowledge. While the available content has been growing continuously at a rate of around 200K new articles each month,…

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Recent research has taken advantage of Wikipedia's multilingualism as a resource for cross-language information retrieval and machine translation, as well as proposed techniques for enriching its cross-language structure. The availability…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-11-01 Thanh Nguyen , Viviane Moreira , Huong Nguyen , Hoa Nguyen , Juliana Freire

The Wikipedia category graph serves as the taxonomic backbone for large-scale knowledge graphs like YAGO or Probase, and has been used extensively for tasks like entity disambiguation or semantic similarity estimation. Wikipedia's…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Nicolas Heist , Heiko Paulheim

Problems broadly known as algorithmic bias frequently occur in the context of complex socio-technical systems (STS), where observed biases may not be directly attributable to a single automated decision algorithm. As a first investigation…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Mir Saeed Damadi , Alan Davoust

Wikipedia, an open collaborative website, can be edited by anyone, even anonymously, thus becoming victim to ill-intentioned changes. Therefore, ranking Wikipedia authors by calculating impact measures based on the edit history can help to…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Sebastian Neef

In online communities, recent studies have strongly improved our knowledge about the different types or profiles of contributors, from casual to very involved ones, through focused people. However they do so by using very complex…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Shubham Krishna , Romain Billot , Nicolas Jullien

It is arguable whether history is made by great men and women or vice versa, but undoubtably social connections shape history. Analysing Wikipedia, a global collective memory place, we aim to understand how social links are recorded across…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-07-05 Pablo Aragón , Andreas Kaltenbrunner , David Laniado , Yana Volkovich

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. In this open model, some people edits with the intent of harming the integrity of Wikipedia. This is known as vandalism. We extend the framework presented in (Potthast, Stein, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Santiago M. Mola-Velasco

With the increased accessibility of web and online encyclopedias, the amount of data to manage is constantly increasing. In Wikipedia, for example, there are millions of pages written in multiple languages. These pages contain images that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Nicola Messina , Davide Alessandro Coccomini , Andrea Esuli , Fabrizio Falchi

Online user profiling is a very active research field, catalyzing great interest by both scientists and practitioners. In this paper, in particular, we look at approaches able to mine social media activities of users to create a rich user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Christian Torrero , Carlo Caprini , Daniele Miorandi

Wikipedia is a major source of information providing a large variety of content online, trusted by readers from around the world. Readers go to Wikipedia to get reliable information about different subjects, one of the most popular being…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Pushkal Agarwal , Miriam Redi , Nishanth Sastry , Edward Wood , Andrew Blick

We conducted a global comparative analysis of the coverage of American topics in different language versions of Wikipedia, using over 90 million Wikidata items and 40 million Wikipedia articles in 58 languages. Our study aimed to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Piotr Konieczny , Włodzimierz Lewoniewski

The new index of the author's popularity estimation is represented in the paper. The index is calculated on the basis of Wikipedia encyclopedia analysis (Wikipedia Index - WI). Unlike the conventional existed citation indices, the suggested…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-02-16 D. V. Lande , V. B. Andrushchenko , I. V. Balagura

Name-based gender classification has enabled hundreds of otherwise infeasible scientific studies of gender. Yet, the lack of standardization, proliferation of ad hoc methods, reliance on paid services, understudied limitations, and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Ian Van Buskirk , Aaron Clauset , Daniel B. Larremore

After the phenomenal success of the PageRank algorithm, many researchers have extended the PageRank approach to ranking graphs with richer structures beside the simple linkage structure. In some scenarios we have to deal with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-15 Gianna M. Del Corso , Francesco Romani

Wikipedia is a huge global repository of human knowledge, that can be leveraged to investigate interwinements between cultures. With this aim, we apply methods of Markov chains and Google matrix, for the analysis of the hyperlink networks…

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We present WikiReading, a large-scale natural language understanding task and publicly-available dataset with 18 million instances. The task is to predict textual values from the structured knowledge base Wikidata by reading the text of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Daniel Hewlett , Alexandre Lacoste , Llion Jones , Illia Polosukhin , Andrew Fandrianto , Jay Han , Matthew Kelcey , David Berthelot

We perform an in-depth analysis on the inequality in 863 Wikimedia projects. We take the complete editing history of 267,304,095 Wikimedia items until 2016, which not only covers every language edition of Wikipedia, but also embraces the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-18 Jinhyuk Yun , Sang Hoon Lee , Hawoong Jeong

Pretrained language models are publicly available and constantly finetuned for various real-life applications. As they become capable of grasping complex contextual information, harmful biases are likely increasingly intertwined with those…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Sophie Jentzsch , Cigdem Turan

With the growth of fake news and disinformation, the NLP community has been working to assist humans in fact-checking. However, most academic research has focused on model accuracy without paying attention to resource efficiency, which is…

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