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CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Entity ranking using Wikipedia as a pivot
In this paper we investigate the task of Entity Ranking on the Web. Searchers looking for entities are arguably better served by presenting a ranked list of entities directly, rat...
Rianne Kaptein, Pavel Serdyukov, Arjen P. de Vries...
IVS
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Visual analysis of controversy in user-generated encyclopedias
Wikipedia is a large and rapidly growing Web-based collaborative authoring environment, where anyone on the Internet can create, modify, and delete pages about encyclopedic topics...
Ulrik Brandes, Jürgen Lerner
JAIR
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Knowledge Derived From Wikipedia For Computing Semantic Relatedness
Wikipedia provides a semantic network for computing semantic relatedness in a more structured fashion than a search engine and with more coverage than WordNet. We present experime...
Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Michael Strube
CORR
2007
Springer
121views Education» more  CORR 2007»
13 years 4 months ago
Use of Wikipedia Categories in Entity Ranking
Wikipedia is a useful source of knowledge that has many applications in language processing and knowledge representation. The Wikipedia category graph can be compared with the clas...
James A. Thom, Jovan Pehcevski, Anne-Marie Vercous...
CORR
2010
Springer
142views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Two-dimensional ranking of Wikipedia articles
Abstract. The Library of Babel, described by Jorge Luis Borges, stores an enormous amount of information. The Library exists ab aeterno. Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia, bec...
A. O. Zhirov, O. V. Zhirov, D. L. Shepelyansky
CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Wiki Vandalysis - Wikipedia Vandalism Analysis - Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010
Wikipedia describes itself as the "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit". Along with the helpful volunteers who contribute by improving the articles, a great number of ...
Manoj Harpalani, Thanadit Phumprao, Megha Bassi, M...
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
WikiRelate! Computing Semantic Relatedness Using Wikipedia
Wikipedia provides a knowledge base for computing word relatedness in a more structured fashion than a search engine and with more coverage than WordNet. In this work we present e...
Michael Strube, Simone Paolo Ponzetto
LREC
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Semantically Annotated Snapshot of the English Wikipedia
This paper describes SW1, the first version of a semantically annotated snapshot of the English Wikipedia. In recent years Wikipedia has become a valuable resource for both the Na...
Jordi Atserias, Hugo Zaragoza, Massimiliano Ciaram...
BIS
2010
187views Business» more  BIS 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Faceted Wikipedia Search
Wikipedia articles contain, besides free text, various types of structured information in the form of wiki markup. The type of wiki content that is most valuable for search are Wik...
Rasmus Hahn, Christian Bizer, Christopher Sahnwald...
APVIS
2010
13 years 6 months ago
WikipediaViz: Conveying article quality for casual Wikipedia readers
As Wikipedia has become one of the most used knowledge bases worldwide, the problem of the trustworthiness of the information it disseminates becomes central. With WikipediaViz, w...
Fanny Chevalier, Stéphane Huot, Jean-Daniel...