Entity disambiguation with Wikipedia relies on structured information from redirect pages, article text, inter-article links, and categories. We explore whether web links can replace a curated encyclopaedia, obtaining entity prior, name, context, and coherence models from a corpus of web pages with links to Wikipedia. Experiments compare web link models to Wikipedia models on well-known CoNLL a...

Wikipedia provides category information for a large number of named entities but the category structure of Wikipedia is associative, and not always suitable for linguistic applications. For this reason, a merger of Wikipedia andWordNet has been proposed. In this paper, we address the word sense disambiguation problem that needs to be solved when linking Dutch Wikipedia categories to polysemous ...

In this paper we examine WikiProjects, an emergent, communitydriven feature of Wikipedia. We analysed 3.2 million Wikipedia articles associated with 618 active Wikipedia projects. The dataset contained the logs of over 115 million article revisions and 15 million talk entries both representing the activity of 15 million unique Wikipedians altogether. Our analysis revealed that per WikiProject, ...

WC3 (Wikipedia Category Consistency Checker) is a system that supports the analysis of the metadata-annotation style in Wikipedia articles belonging to a particular Wikipedia category (the subcategory of “Categories by parameter”) by using the DBpedia metadata database. This system aims to construct an appropriate SPARQL query to represent the category and compares the retrieved results and art...

We present several statistics related to English Wikipedia category and article evolution between Wikipedia 2012 (Oct) and 2014 (Jun) instances. This includes analysis of categories, articles and links creation and deletion. We also present the distribution of Wikipedia articles over 14 broad topics and compare them across 2012 and 2014 Wikipedia. We provide several statistics ofWikipedia categ...

Building on previous research related to information literacy and learning with Wikipedia, this article interprets Wikipedia editing practices as fulfilling the Association of College Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education better understand pedagogy an Open Educational Practice (OEP) that promotes critical social justice. Drawing primarily data from a ...

In this paper we present WRPA, a system for Relational Paraphrase Acquisition from Wikipedia. WRPA extracts paraphrasing patterns that hold a particular relation between two entities taking advantage of Wikipedia structure. What is new in this system is that Wikipedia’s exploitation goes beyond infoboxes, reaching itemized information embedded in Wikipedia pages. WRPA is language independent, a...

In this paper we describe a new unsupervised algorithm for automatic documents clustering with the aid of Wikipedia. Contrary to other related algorithms in the field, our algorithm utilizes only two aspects of Wikipedia, namely its categories network and articles titles. We do not utilize the inner content of the articles in Wikipedia or their inner or inter links. The implemented algorithm wa...

We investigate the automatic generation of Wikipedia articles as an alternative to its manual creation. We propose a framework for creating a Wikipedia article for a named entity which not only looks similar to other Wikipedia articles in its category but also aggregates the diverse aspects related to that named entity from the Web. In particular, a semi-supervised method is used for determinin...

Looking for desired information on the web can be a time consuming task. In this process Wikipedia constitutes a very helpful tool as it is the largest and most popular general reference site on the internet. Most search engines actually rank Wikipedia pages among the top listed results. However due to the nature of Wikipedia which is manually updated by users, it is virtually impossible to hav...