On Improving Wikipedia Search Using Article Quality

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On Improving Wikipedia Search Using Article Quality
Authors
Meiqun Hu
Ee Peng Lim
Aixin Sun
Hady Wirawan Lauw
Baquy Vuong
Publication date
2007
ISBN
978-159593829-9
DOI
10.1145/1316902.1316926
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On Improving Wikipedia Search Using Article Quality - scientific work about Wikipedia quality published in 2007, written by Meiqun Hu, Ee Peng Lim, Aixin Sun, Hady Wirawan Lauw and Baquy Vuong.

Overview

Wikipedia is presently the largest free-and-open online encyclopedia collaboratively edited and maintained by volunteers. While Wikipedia offers full-text search to its users, the accuracy of its relevance-based search can be compromised by poor quality articles edited by non-experts and inexperienced contributors. In this paper, authors propose a framework that re-ranks Wikipedia search results considering article quality. Authors develop two quality measurement models, namely BASIC and PEERREVIEW, to derive article quality based on co-authoring data gathered from articles' edit history. Compared withWikipedia's full-text search engine, Google and Wikiseek, their experimental results showed that (i) quality-only ranking produced by PEERREVIEW gives comparable performance to that of Wikipedia and Wikiseek; (ii) PEERREVIEW combined with relevance ranking outperforms Wikipedia's full-text search significantly, delivering search accuracy comparable to Google.

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Hu, Meiqun; Lim, Ee Peng; Sun, Aixin; Lauw, Hady Wirawan; Vuong, Baquy. (2007). "[[On Improving Wikipedia Search Using Article Quality]]". International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings 2007, pp. 145-152. ISBN: 978-159593829-9. DOI: 10.1145/1316902.1316926.

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Hu, Meiqun; Lim, Ee Peng; Sun, Aixin; Lauw, Hady Wirawan; Vuong, Baquy. (2007). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/On_Improving_Wikipedia_Search_Using_Article_Quality">On Improving Wikipedia Search Using Article Quality</a>&quot;. International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings 2007, pp. 145-152. ISBN: 978-159593829-9. DOI: 10.1145/1316902.1316926.