Automatic Mapping of User Tags to Wikipedia Concepts

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Automatic Mapping of User Tags to Wikipedia Concepts
Authors
Arash Joorabchi
Michael English
Abdulhussain E. Mahdi
Publication date
2015
DOI
10.1177/0165551515586669
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Automatic Mapping of User Tags to Wikipedia Concepts - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2015, written by Arash Joorabchi, Michael English and Abdulhussain E. Mahdi.

Overview

The uncontrolled nature of user-assigned tags makes them prone to various inconsistencies caused by spelling variations, synonyms, acronyms and hyponyms. These inconsistencies in turn lead to some of the common problems associated with the use of folksonomies such as the tag explosion phenomenon. Mapping user tags to their corresponding Wikipedia articles, as well-formed concepts, offers multifaceted benefits to the process of subject metadata generation and management in a wide range of online environments. These include normalization of inconsistencies, elimination of personal tags and improvement of the interchangeability of existing subject metadata. In this article, authors propose a machine learning-based method capable of automatic mapping of user tags to their equivalent Wikipedia concepts. Authors have demonstrated the application of the proposed method and evaluated its performance using the currently most popular computer programming Q&A website, StackOverflow.com, as test platform. Currently, around 20 million posts in StackOverflow are annotated with about 37,000 unique user tags, from which authors have chosen a subset of 1256 tags to evaluate the accuracy performance of proposed mapping method. Authors have evaluated the performance of method using the standard information retrieval measures of precision, recall and F1. Depending on the machine learning-based classification algorithm used as part of the mapping process, F1 scores as high as 99.6% were achieved.

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Joorabchi, Arash; English, Michael; Mahdi, Abdulhussain E.. (2015). "[[Automatic Mapping of User Tags to Wikipedia Concepts]]". SAGE Publications. DOI: 10.1177/0165551515586669.

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Joorabchi, Arash; English, Michael; Mahdi, Abdulhussain E.. (2015). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Automatic_Mapping_of_User_Tags_to_Wikipedia_Concepts">Automatic Mapping of User Tags to Wikipedia Concepts</a>&quot;. SAGE Publications. DOI: 10.1177/0165551515586669.