Fine-Grained Controversy Detection in Wikipedia
Authors | Siarhei Bykau Flip Korn Divesh Srivastava Yannis Velegrakis |
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Publication date | 2015 |
DOI | 10.1109/ICDE.2015.7113426 |
Links | Original |
Fine-Grained Controversy Detection in Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2015, written by Siarhei Bykau, Flip Korn, Divesh Srivastava and Yannis Velegrakis.
Overview
The advent of Web 2.0 gave birth to a new kind of application where content is generated through the collaborative contribution of many different users. This form of content generation is believed to generate data of higher quality since the “wisdom of the crowds” makes its way into the data. However, a number of specific data quality issues appear within such collaboratively generated data. Apart from normal updates, there are cases of intentional harmful changes known as vandalism as well as naturally occurring disagreements on topics which don't have an agreed upon viewpoint, known as controversies. While much work has focused on identifying vandalism, there has been little prior work on detecting controversies, especially at a fine granularity. Knowing about controversies when processing user-generated content is essential to understand the quality of the data and the trust that should be given to them. Controversy detection is a challenging task, since in the highly dynamic context of user updates, one needs to differentiate among normal updates, vandalisms and actual controversies. Authors describe a novel technique that finds these controversial issues by analyzing the edits that have been performed on the data over time. Authors apply the developed technique on Wikipedia, the world's largest known collaboratively generated database and authors show that approach has higher precision and recall than baseline approaches as well as is capable of finding previously unknown controversies.
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Bykau, Siarhei; Korn, Flip; Srivastava, Divesh; Velegrakis, Yannis. (2015). "[[Fine-Grained Controversy Detection in Wikipedia]]".DOI: 10.1109/ICDE.2015.7113426.
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Bykau, Siarhei; Korn, Flip; Srivastava, Divesh; Velegrakis, Yannis. (2015). "<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Fine-Grained_Controversy_Detection_in_Wikipedia">Fine-Grained Controversy Detection in Wikipedia</a>".DOI: 10.1109/ICDE.2015.7113426.
