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CICLING
2011
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Wikipedia Vandalism Detection: Combining Natural Language, Metadata, and Reputation Features
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia which anyone can edit. While most edits are constructive, about 7% are acts of vandalism. Such behavior is characterized by modifications made ...
B. Thomas Adler, Luca de Alfaro, Santiago Mois&eac...
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CSCW
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia: quality through coordination
Wikipedia's success is often attributed to involving large numbers of contributors who improve the accuracy, completeness and clarity of articles while reducing bias. However...
Aniket Kittur, Robert E. Kraut
SAC
2011
ACM
14 years 10 days ago
Understanding and improving Wikipedia article discussion spaces
Wikipedia’s article discussion spaces (“Talk pages”) form a large and growing proportion of the encyclopedia, used for collaboration and article improvement. So far there is...
Jodi Schneider, Alexandre Passant, John G. Breslin
ICDE
2008
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
Building Community Wikipedias: A Machine-Human Partnership Approach
Abstract-- The rapid growth of Web communities has motivated many solutions for building community data portals. These solutions follow roughly two approaches. The first approach (...
Pedro DeRose, Xiaoyong Chai, Byron J. Gao, Warren ...
WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Unsupervised query segmentation using generative language models and wikipedia
In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised approach to query segmentation, an important task in Web search. We use a generative query model to recover a query's underlyin...
Bin Tan, Fuchun Peng