Extracting Difference Information from Multilingual Wikipedia

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Extracting Difference Information from Multilingual Wikipedia
Authors
Yuya Fujiwara
Yu Suzuki
Yukio Konishi
Akiyo Nadamoto
Publication date
2012
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-29253-8_42
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Extracting Difference Information from Multilingual Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2012, written by Yuya Fujiwara, Yu Suzuki, Yukio Konishi and Akiyo Nadamoto.

Overview

Wikipedia articles for a particular topic are written in many languages. When authors select two articles which are about a single topic but which are written in different languages, the contents of these two articles are expected to be identical because of the Wikipedia policy. However, these contents are actually different, especially topics related to culture. In this paper, authors propose a system to extract different Wikipedia information between that shown for Japan and that of other countries. An important technical problem is how to extract comparison target articles of Wikipedia. A Wikipedia article is written in different languages, with their respective linguistic structures. For example, "Cricket" is an important part of English culture, but the Japanese Wikipedia article related to cricket is too simple. Actually, it is only a single page. In contrast, the English version is substantial. It includes multiple pages. For that reason, authors must consider which articles can be reasonably compared. Subsequently, authors extract comparison target articles of Wikipedia based on a link graph and article structure. Authors implement proposed method, and confirm the accuracy of difference extraction methods.

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Fujiwara, Yuya; Suzuki, Yu; Konishi, Yukio; Nadamoto, Akiyo. (2012). "[[Extracting Difference Information from Multilingual Wikipedia]]". Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29253-8_42.

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Fujiwara, Yuya; Suzuki, Yu; Konishi, Yukio; Nadamoto, Akiyo. (2012). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Extracting_Difference_Information_from_Multilingual_Wikipedia">Extracting Difference Information from Multilingual Wikipedia</a>&quot;. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29253-8_42.