Information arbitrage across multi-lingual Wikipedia

Adar, Eytan; Skinner, Michael; Weld, Daniel S.

doi:10.1145/1498759.1498813

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“…Finally, the learned patterns are applied to text of pages for which a new infobox has been predicted, to assign values to infobox attributes. A recent paper by Adar et al (2009) (which only came to our attention at the time of writing) starts from the same observation as we do. It presents a system for completing infoboxes for English, German, French, and Spanish Wikipedia, which is based on learning a mapping between infoboxes and attributes in multiple languages.…”

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Cross-lingual alignment and completion of Wikipedia templates

Bouma

Duarte

Islam

2009

Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access Addressing the Information Need of Multilin

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For many languages, the size of Wikipedia is an order of magnitude smaller than the English Wikipedia. We present a method for cross-lingual alignment of template and infobox attributes in Wikipedia. The alignment is used to add and complete templates and infoboxes in one language with information derived from Wikipedia in another language. We show that alignment between English and Dutch Wikipedia is accurate and that the result can be used to expand the number of template attribute-value pairs in Dutch Wikipedia by 50%. Furthermore, the alignment provides valuable information for normalization of template and attribute names and can be used to detect potential inconsistencies.

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Section: Previous Worksupporting

confidence: 62%

Cross-lingual alignment and completion of Wikipedia templates

Bouma

Duarte

Islam

2009

Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access Addressing the Information Need of Multilin

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“…Así, McDonough (2012), a través de una encuesta online realizada entre traductores voluntarios de Wikipedia, investigó la percepción que tienen respecto a la traducción que se realiza en un entorno de crowdsourcing, concluyendo que su principal motivación es hacer que la información esté disponible para otras personas. Con un enfoque diferente, centrado en explotar las posibilidades de Wikipedia como corpus multilingüe, con vistas, por ejemplo, a la creación de material lexicográfico, también hay numerosas iniciativas (Adafre y de Rijke, 2006;Potthast et al, 2008;Jones et al, 2008;Schönhofen et al, 2008;Adar et al, 2009;Nguyen et al, 2009;Yen et al, 2012;Oliver y Climent, 2012). Estas propuestas ponen de manifiesto la percepción de Wikipedia como fenómeno y producto cultural, así como las variadas posibilidades que ofrece su estudio en el campo de las ciencias sociales y las humanidades.…”

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Una aproximación a Wikipedia como polisistema cultural

Alonso-Jiménez

2015

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This qualitative and interpretative work aims at approaching Wikipedia's cultural facet from a transdisciplinary view. For this purpose, we set to analyse the existing literature that has dealt with Wikipedia in the generic media and in academic publications on the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Information and Education Sciences and Translation Studies as well. In these works -mostly with a descriptive, empirical or pragmatic approachWikipedia is referred to as an online collaborative encyclopaedia that incorporates innovation and content creation devices from the free software movement. Our proposal calls for resorting to theoretical works envisaging Wikipedia's cultural dimension. With a semiotic approach, we have based our analysis hypothesis on the social imaginary proposed by Vázquez Medel, as well as on the Polysystem Theory written by Even-Zohar. We will outline that these authors provide many clues for approaching Wikipedia as a cultural system boasting as a repository of knowledge and human relationships. Key words: Wikipedia, culture, media, information society, free software. Resumen: En el presente trabajo, de naturaleza cualitativa e interpretativa, se abordan los alcances culturales de Wikipedia desde una aproximación transdisciplinar. Para ello, se analiza la literatura existente centrada en Wikipedia, procedente de medios de comunicación generalistas y de distintas disciplinas académicas (inteligencia artificial, ciencias de la información, educación y estudios de traducción). En dichos trabajos, fundamentalmente de naturaleza descriptiva, empírica y pragmática, se alude a Wikipedia como enciclopedia colaborativa en línea que aúna mecanismos de creación de contenido y de innovación procedentes del software libre. Nuestra propuesta reclama la pertinencia de recurrir a trabajos teóricos que contemplen la dimensión cultural de Wikipedia. Desde una aproximación semiótica, basamos nuestra hipótesis de análisis en el imaginario social de Vázquez Medel y la Teoría de los polisistemas de Even-Zohar, en los que encontramos claves para la consideración de Wikipedia como sistema cultural, en tanto que repositorio de conocimiento y relaciones humanas. Palabras clave: Wikipedia, cultura, medios, sociedad de la información, software libre. Sociales, núm. 68, 2015 Convergencia Revista de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México 126 IntroducciónEn este trabajo se aborda una reflexión crítica, una lectura de los alcances culturales de Wikipedia desde la semiótica y los sistemas culturales (Lotman, 1979(Lotman, , 1996(Lotman, , 1998(Lotman, , 1999(Lotman, , 2000Even-Zohar, 1990;Vázquez Medel, 1997). A partir de constructos ya consolidados como la "inteligencia colectiva" propuesto por Lévy (1997) y la "cultura participativa" enunciado por Jenkins et al. (2009), se explora Wikipedia como evocación del discurso multilingüe, cibernético, multimodal y multidireccional que genera nuestra sociedad mundializada. Asimismo, en los siguientes párrafos están latentes consideraciones sobre los concep...

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“…In addition to this, there has been the development of technical solutions such as WikiTranslate [30] or CLWE [24] to aid the translation process, supporting individuals to cross-collaborate and discuss their translation work flow [24]. Moreover, in response to the call for improved content and consistency within translated Wikipedia articles, automated techniques have also been developed for improving content of translated Wikipedia articles [31].…”

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Examining Wikipedia across linguistic and temporal borders

Tinati

Gaskell

Tiropanis

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web

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The Web has grown to be an integral part of modern society offering novel ways for humans to communicate, interact, and share information. New collaborative platforms are forming which are providing individuals with new communities and knowledge bases and, at the same time, offering insights into human activity for researchers, policy-makers and engineers. On a global scale, the role of cultural and language barriers when studying such phenomena becomes particularly relevant and presents significant challenges: due to insufficient information, it is often hard to establish the cultural or language groups in which individuals belong, while there are technical difficulties in establishing the relevance and in analysing resources in different languages. This paper presents a framework to the end of addressing those issues by leveraging data on the use of Wikipedia. Resources available in different languages are explicitly correlated in Wikipedia along with time-stamped logs of access to its articles. This paper provides a framework to enable temporal page views in Wikipedia to be associated with specific geographic profiles. This framework is then used to examine the exchange of information between the English speaking and Chinese speaking localities and reports initial findings on the role of language and culture in diffusion in this context.

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Information arbitrage across multi-lingual Wikipedia

Cited by 78 publications

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Cross-lingual alignment and completion of Wikipedia templates

Cross-lingual alignment and completion of Wikipedia templates

Una aproximación a Wikipedia como polisistema cultural

Examining Wikipedia across linguistic and temporal borders

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