When emerging technologies such as Search Engine Marketing (SEM) face tasks that require human level intelligence, it is inevitable to use the knowledge repositories to endow the machine with the breadth of knowledge available to humans. Keyword suggestion for search engine advertising is an important problem for sponsored search and SEM that requires a goldmine repository of knowledge. A recen...

Abstract We develop a new measure of party position based on scaling ideology tags supplied in infoboxes political parties’ Wikipedia pages. Assuming simple model tag assignment, we estimate the locations parties and ideologies common space. find that recovered scale can be interpreted familiar terms “left versus right.” Estimated positions correlate well with ratings from extant large-scale ex...

Learning analytics (LA) and Educational data mining (EDM) have emerged as promising technology-enhanced learning (TEL) research areas in recent years. Both areas deal with the development of methods that harness educational data sets to support the learning process. A key area of application for LA and EDM is learner modelling. Learner modelling enables to achieve adaptive and personalized lear...

Wikipedia is the world’s largest information source, used daily by millions of individuals around world – yet such its uniqueness and dominance that rarely question asked: what exactly Wikipedia? This article sets out to explore different categories source could be defined as (primary, secondary or tertiary) alongside varied ways in which used, defy easy categorization, exemplified ...

The extensive Wikipedia literature has largely considered Wikipedia in isolation, outside of the context of its broader Internet ecosystem. Very recent research has demonstrated the significance of this limitation, identifying critical relationships between Google and Wikipedia that are highly relevant to many areas of Wikipedia-based research and practice. This paper extends this recent resear...