Analysis of Community Structure in Wikipedia
Authors | Dmitry Lizorkin Olena Medelyan Maria P. Grineva |
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Publication date | 2009 |
DOI | 10.1145/1526709.1526938 |
Links | Original |
Analysis of Community Structure in Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2009, written by Dmitry Lizorkin, Olena Medelyan and Maria P. Grineva.
Overview
Authors present the results of a community detection analysis of the Wikipedia graph. Distinct communities in Wikipedia contain semantically closely related articles. The central topic of a community can be identified using PageRank. Extracted communities can be organized hierarchically similar to manually created Wikipedia category structure.
