Building Community Wikipedias: a Machine-Human Partnership Approach

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Building Community Wikipedias: a Machine-Human Partnership Approach
Authors
Pedro DeRose
Xiaoyong Chai
Byron J. Gao
Warren Shen
AnHai Doan
Philip Bohannon
Xiaojin Zhu
Publication date
2008
DOI
10.1109/ICDE.2008.4497473
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Building Community Wikipedias: a Machine-Human Partnership Approach - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2008, written by Pedro DeRose, Xiaoyong Chai, Byron J. Gao, Warren Shen, AnHai Doan, Philip Bohannon and Xiaojin Zhu.

Overview

The rapid growth of Web communities has motivated many solutions for building community data portals. These solutions follow roughly two approaches. The first approach (e.g., Libra, Citeseer, Cimple) employs semi-automatic methods to extract and integrate data from a multitude of data sources. The second approach (e.g., Wikipedia, Intellipedia) deploys an initial portal in wiki format, then invites community members to revise and add material. In this paper authors consider combining the above two approaches to building community portals. The new hybrid machine-human approach brings significant benefits. It can achieve broader and deeper coverage, provide more incentives for users to contribute, and keep the portal more up-to-date with less user effort. In a sense, it enables building "community wikipedias", backed by an underlying structured database that is continuously updated using automatic techniques. Authors outline ideas for the new approach, describe its challenges and opportunities, and provide initial solutions. Finally, authors describe a real-world implementation and preliminary experiments that demonstrate the utility of the new approach.

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DeRose, Pedro; Chai, Xiaoyong; Gao, Byron J.; Shen, Warren; Doan, AnHai; Bohannon, Philip; Zhu, Xiaojin. (2008). "[[Building Community Wikipedias: a Machine-Human Partnership Approach]]".DOI: 10.1109/ICDE.2008.4497473.

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DeRose, Pedro; Chai, Xiaoyong; Gao, Byron J.; Shen, Warren; Doan, AnHai; Bohannon, Philip; Zhu, Xiaojin. (2008). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Building_Community_Wikipedias:_a_Machine-Human_Partnership_Approach">Building Community Wikipedias: a Machine-Human Partnership Approach</a>&quot;.DOI: 10.1109/ICDE.2008.4497473.