Predicting Importance of Historical Persons Using Wikipedia

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Predicting Importance of Historical Persons Using Wikipedia
Authors
Adam Jatowt
Daisuke Kawai
Katsumi Tanaka
Publication date
2016
DOI
10.1145/2983323.2983871
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Predicting Importance of Historical Persons Using Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2016, written by Adam Jatowt, Daisuke Kawai and Katsumi Tanaka.

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Wikipedia contains a lot of contemporary as well as history-related information, and given its vast coverage and richness, it can be used to rank entities in a variety of different ways. In this work, authors are interested in utilizing Wikipedia for judging historical person's importance. Based on the two well-known lists of the most important people in the last millennium, authors look closely into factors that determine significance of historical persons. Authors predict person's importance using six classifiers equipped with features derived from link structure, visit logs and article content.

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Jatowt, Adam; Kawai, Daisuke; Tanaka, Katsumi. (2016). "[[Predicting Importance of Historical Persons Using Wikipedia]]".DOI: 10.1145/2983323.2983871.

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Jatowt, Adam; Kawai, Daisuke; Tanaka, Katsumi. (2016). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Predicting_Importance_of_Historical_Persons_Using_Wikipedia">Predicting Importance of Historical Persons Using Wikipedia</a>&quot;.DOI: 10.1145/2983323.2983871.