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With the World Wide Web's ubiquity increase and the rapid development of various online businesses, the complexity of web sites grow. The analysis of web user's navigational pattern within a web site can provide useful information for…

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Search engines are some of the most popular and profitable intelligent technologies in existence. Recent research, however, has suggested that search engines may be surprisingly dependent on user-created content like Wikipedia articles to…

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Online platforms, particularly Wikipedia, have become critical infrastructures for providing diverse linguistic and cultural contexts. This human-curated knowledge now forms the foundation for modern AI. However, we have not yet fully…

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Wikipedia (WP) as a collaborative, dynamical system of humans is an appropriate subject of social studies. Each single action of the members of this society, i.e. editors, is well recorded and accessible. Using the cumulative data of 34…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-05 Taha Yasseri , Róbert Sumi , János Kertész

Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world, serving as a major source of information and learning resource for millions of users worldwide. While motivations for its usage vary, prior research suggests shallow information…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Neal Reeves , Wenjie Yin , Elena Simperl

Wikipedia is a rich and invaluable source of information. Its central place on the Web makes it a particularly interesting object of study for scientists. Researchers from different domains used various complex datasets related to Wikipedia…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Nicolas Aspert , Volodymyr Miz , Benjamin Ricaud , Pierre Vandergheynst

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

This aim of this article is to explore the potential use of Wikipedia page view data for predicting electoral results. Responding to previous critiques of work using socially generated data to predict elections, which have argued that these…

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While a plethora of hypertext links exist on the Web, only a small amount of them are regularly clicked. Starting from this observation, we set out to study large-scale click data from Wikipedia in order to understand what makes a link…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Dimitar Dimitrov , Philipp Singer , Florian Lemmerich , Markus Strohmaier

Wikipedia is the largest online encyclopedia, used by algorithms and web users as a central hub of reliable information on the web. The quality and reliability of Wikipedia content is maintained by a community of volunteer editors. Machine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-02 KayYen Wong , Miriam Redi , Diego Saez-Trumper

With the rapid accumulation of online information, efficient web navigation has grown vital yet challenging. To create an easily navigable cyberspace catering to diverse demographics, understanding how people navigate differently is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-27 Manran Zhu , Taha Yasseri , János Kertész

This is an evolving document. It is devoted to summarizing patterns and laws of knowledge growth. By examining a variety of parameters in data sources such as Wikipedia and Microsoft Academic Graph, we can get deeper insights of how…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Nick Zhang

The increasing availability of biological data is improving our understanding of diseases and providing new insight into their underlying relationships. Thanks to the improvements on both text mining techniques and computational capacity,…

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

With over 60M articles, Wikipedia has become the largest platform for open and freely accessible knowledge. While it has more than 15B monthly visits, its content is believed to be inaccessible to many readers due to the lack of readability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Mykola Trokhymovych , Indira Sen , Martin Gerlach

Wikipedia, the largest open-collaborative online encyclopedia, is a corpus of documents bound together by internal hyperlinks. These links form the building blocks of a large network whose structure contains important information on the…

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The frequency of a web search keyword generally reflects the degree of public interest in a particular subject matter. Search logs are therefore useful resources for trend analysis. However, access to search logs is typically restricted to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Mitsuo Yoshida , Yuki Arase , Takaaki Tsunoda , Mikio Yamamoto

Web search is among the most ubiquitous online activities, commonly used to acquire new knowledge and to satisfy learning-related objectives through informational search sessions. The importance of learning as an outcome of web search has…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Ran Yu , Ujwal Gadiraju , Stefan Dietze

Wikipedia is the world's largest online encyclopedia, but maintaining article quality through collaboration is challenging. Wikipedia designed a quality scale, but with such a manual assessment process, many articles remain unassessed. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Pedro Miguel Moás , Carla Teixeira Lopes

Among the manifold takes on world literature, it is our goal to contribute to the discussion from a digital point of view by analyzing the representation of world literature in Wikipedia with its millions of articles in hundreds of…

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