Wikipedia revision graph extraction based on n-gram cover

Jianmin Wu*, Mizuho Iwaihara

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

During the past decade, mass collaboration systems have emerged and thrived on the World-Wide Web, with numerous user contents generated. As one of such systems, Wikipedia allows users to add and edit articles in this encyclopedic knowledge base and piles of revisions have been contributed. Wikipedia maintains a linear record of edit history with timestamp for each article, which includes precious information on how each article has evolved. However, meaningful revision evolution features like branching and revert are implicit and needed to be reconstructed. Also, existence of merges from multiple ancestors indicates that the edit history shall be modeled as a directed acyclic graph. To address these issues, we propose a revision graph extraction method based on n-gram cover that effectively find branching and revert. We evaluate the accuracy of our method by comparing with manually constructed revision graphs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWeb-Age Information Management - WAIM 2012 International Workshops
Subtitle of host publicationGDMM, IWSN, MDSP, USDM, and XMLDM, Proceedings
Pages29-38
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
EventInt. Workshops on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2012: 1st Int. Workshop on GDMM 2012, 2nd Int. Wireless Sensor Networks Workshop, IWSN 2012, 1st Int. Workshop on MDSP 2012, 3rd Int. Workshop on USDM 2012, 4th Int. Workshop on XMLDM 2012 - Harbin, China
Duration: 2012 Aug 182012 Aug 20

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7419 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInt. Workshops on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2012: 1st Int. Workshop on GDMM 2012, 2nd Int. Wireless Sensor Networks Workshop, IWSN 2012, 1st Int. Workshop on MDSP 2012, 3rd Int. Workshop on USDM 2012, 4th Int. Workshop on XMLDM 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHarbin
Period12/8/1812/8/20

Keywords

  • Mass collaboration
  • Wikipedia revision graph

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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