Identifying Multilingual Wikipedia Articles based on Cross Language Similarity and Activity

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Identifying Multilingual Wikipedia Articles based on Cross Language Similarity and Activity
Authors
Khoi-Nguyen Tran
Peter Christen
Publication date
2013
DOI
10.1145/2505515.2507825
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Identifying Multilingual Wikipedia Articles based on Cross Language Similarity and Activity - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2013, written by Khoi-Nguyen Tran and Peter Christen.

Overview

Wikipedia is an online free and open access encyclopedia available in many languages. Wikipedia articles across over 280 languages are written by millions of editors. However, the growth of articles and their content is slowing, especially within the largest Wikipedia language: English. The stabilization of articles presents opportunities for multilingual Wikipedia editors to apply their translation skills to add articles and content to smaller Wikipedia languages. In this poster, authors propose similarity and activity measures of Wikipedia articles across two languages: English and German. These measures allow us to evaluate the distribution of articles based on their knowledge coverage and their activity across languages. Authors show the state of Wikipedia articles as of June 2012 and discuss how these measures allow us to develop recommendation and verification models for multilingual editors to enrich articles and content in Wikipedia languages with relatively smaller knowledge coverage.

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Tran, Khoi-Nguyen; Christen, Peter. (2013). "[[Identifying Multilingual Wikipedia Articles based on Cross Language Similarity and Activity]]".DOI: 10.1145/2505515.2507825.

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Tran, Khoi-Nguyen; Christen, Peter. (2013). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Identifying_Multilingual_Wikipedia_Articles_based_on_Cross_Language_Similarity_and_Activity">Identifying Multilingual Wikipedia Articles based on Cross Language Similarity and Activity</a>&quot;.DOI: 10.1145/2505515.2507825.