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Showing 1 to 20 of 138 for “"wikipedia"”.
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Enabling Vertical Search Over Wikipedia
… the idea of applying similar techniques to Wikipedia. We construct a conceptual model of vertical search and explain why Wikipedia is especially suitable for this form of search. We go on to analyze the difficulties of making full use of Wikipedia's advantages, and offer possible solutions. …
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Automated creation of Wikipedia articles
… describes an automatic approach for producing Wikipedia articles. The wealth of information present on the Internet is currently untapped for many topics of secondary concern. Creating articles requires a great deal of time spent collecting information and editing. This thesis presents a …
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Applying Wikipedia to Interactive Information Retrieval
… to be applied to everyday webscale search. Wikipedia has the potential to bring structured knowledge into more widespread use. This online, collaboratively generated encyclopaedia is one of the largest and most consulted reference works in existence. It is broader, deeper and more agile than …
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Towards automated generation of open domain Wikipedia articles
The student, Yunqian Bao, accepted the attached license on 2023-07-20 at 11:40.
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Wikipedia Conflict Representation in Articles of War: A critical discourse analysis of current, on-going, socio-political Wikipedia articles about war
… pages of three controversial, socio-political Wikipedia articles about ongoing wars was analyzed in order to shed light on the way in which conflict is represented through the editing and discussion process. Additionally, a rational discourse was employed in order to unravel communication …
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Semi-automatic extraction of RDF triples from Wikipedia tables
Wikipedia es una enciclopedia en línea, multilingüe y gratuita disponible en 339 ediciones. La edición de Wikipedia en inglés actualmente cuenta con más de 6,7 millones de artículos y 46 millones de usuarios registrados. Una gran cantidad de información en Wikipedia se encuentra contenida en …
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Semantic modeling of the natural language of Wikipedia annotations
… this canonical task by using the unstructured Wikipedia corpus: we extract low-dimensional embeddings for title pages of the Wikipedia corpus and show that they can be used to significantly outperform state-of-the-art approaches on a variety of metrics in three concrete tasks: measuring …
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A Strategy Oriented, Machine Learning Approach to Automatic Quality Assessment of Wikipedia Articles
… to modeling and measuring information quality of Wikipedia articles. The approach is based on the idea that the quality of Wikipedia articles with distinctly different profiles needs to be measured using different information quality models. To implement this approach, a software framework written in …
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Using Learning to Rank Approach to Promoting Diversity for Biomedical Information Retrieval with Wikipedia
… the ranking model. To address these challenges, Wikipedia is used to detect topics of documents for generating diversity biased features. A combined model is proposed and studied to learn a diversified ranking result. Experiment results show the proposed method outperforms baseline models.
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Maintaining the efficiency of open production systems at scale: a case study of Wikipedia
… subsystems in open production communities with Wikipedia as a case study. Specifically, I explore the nature of rejection via Wikipedia's informal, post-hoc quality control system and identify a consistent ownership bias that undermines Wikipedia's ethos of openness. I also quantify an inherent …
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Understanding Wikipedia Practices Through Hindi, Urdu, and English Takes on an Evolving Regional Conflict
Wikipedia is the product of thousands of editors working collaboratively to provide free and up-to-date encyclopedic information to the project's users. This article asks to what degree Wikipedia articles in three languages — Hindi, Urdu, and English — achieve Wikipedia's mission of making …
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The political economy of wilkiality: a South African inquiry into knowledge and power on wikipedia
… knowledge construction on the English-language Wikipedia produces hegemonic representations of South Africa. Using Wikipedia's entries on Cape Town and various places in the Free State province as case studies, this dissertation demonstrates through critical discourse analysis that there is a …
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Debating the European Union transnationally : Wikipedians’ construction of the EU on a Wikipedia talk page (2001-2015)
… as negotiated among contributors to the English Wikipedia between 2001 and 2015. It focuses on the Talk Page (TP) which accompanies the Wikipedia article on the EU and provides a space for Wikipedia contributors to discuss controversial issues regarding the article. The EU has received …
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Measuring minority language presence on Wikipedia: Towards the measurement of minority language presence on the World Wide Web
… language and minority language versions of Wikipedia (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Icelandic, Welsh, Gaelic, Scots Gaelic, Manx, Cornish, West Frisian, North Frisian, Saterland Frisian, Breton, Catalan, Galician and Sardinian). The results are used to compare the …
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Extracting conceptual structures from multiple sources
… from multiple sources: Wordnet, Web Corpora and Wikipedia. The conceptual structures extracted from Wordnet and Web Corpora are inspired by the feature norm effort in cognitive psychology. The conceptual structure extracted from Wikipedia makes the transition between feature norm structures and …
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Concept and entity grounding using indirect supervision
… corresponding entries the mentions refer to in Wikipedia. We extend this problem in two directions: First, we study identifying and grounding entities written in any language to the English Wikipedia. Second, we investigate using multiple KBs which do not contain rich textual and structural …
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The Trouble with Knowing: Wikipedian consensus and the political design of encyclopedic media
… survey of editors of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, it was reported that 87 per cent of Wikipedians identified as men. This statistic flew in the face of Wikipedias utopian promise that it was an encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Despite the early optimism and efforts to reduce this …
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Does copyright affect reuse? : evidence from the Google Books Digitization Project
… of copyright on a prominent venue for reuse: Wikipedia. I find that digitization causes a significant increase in content on Wikipedia pages, but copyright hurts both the extent of reuse and thereby the level of internet traffic to affected Wikipedia pages. Specific features of copyright law …
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