Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
11-2007
Abstract
Social networking, distributed problem solving and human computation have gained high visibility. Wikipedia is a well established service that incorporates aspects of these three fields of research. For this reason it is a good object of study for determining quality of solutions in a social setting that is open, completely distributed, bottom up and not peer reviewed by certified experts. In particular, this paper aims at identifying semantic convergence of Wikipedia articles; the notion that the content of an article stays stable regardless of continuing edits. This could lead to an automatic recommendation of good article tags but also add to the usability of Wikipedia as a Web Service and to its reliability for information extraction. The methods used and the results obtained in this research can be generalized to other communities that iteratively produce textual content.
Repository Citation
Thomas, C. J.,
& Sheth, A. P.
(2007). Semantic Convergence of Wikipedia Articles. Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, 600-606.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/knoesis/713
DOI
10.1109/WI.2007.108
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Comments
Presented at the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Fremont, CA, November 2-5, 2007.
Posted with permission from IEEE.