A Computational Linguistic Approach towards Understanding Wikipedia's Article for Deletion (AfD) Discussions
Authors | Wanting Mao |
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Publication date | 2014 |
Links | Original |
A Computational Linguistic Approach towards Understanding Wikipedia's Article for Deletion (AfD) Discussions - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2014, written by Wanting Mao.
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With the thriving of online deliberation, Wikipedia’s Article for Deletion (AfD) discussion has drawn a number of researchers’ attention in the past decade. In this thesis authors aim to solve two main problems: 1) how to help new users effectively participate in the discussion; and 2) how to make it efficient for administrators to make decision based on the discussion. To solve the first problem, authors obtain a knowledge repository for new users by recognizing imperatives. Authors propose a method to detect imperatives based on syntactic analysis of the texts. And the result shows a good precision and reasonable recall. To solve the second problem, authors propose a decision making support system that provides administrators with an reorganized overview of a discussion. Authors first divide the arguments in the discussion into several groups based on similarity; then further divide each group into subgroups based on sentiment (positive, neutral and negative). In order to classify sentiment polarity, authors propose a recursive algorithm based on the dependency structure of the text. Comparing with the state of the art sentiment analysis tool by Stanford, algorithm shows a promising result of 3-categories classification without requiring a large training dataset.
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