Taha Yasseri (Budapest):

Some Linguistic-based and temporal analysis on Wikipedia

Abstract:

Wikipedia as a web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopaedia project is a very suitable field to carry out research on social dynamics and to investigate the complex concepts of conflict, collaboration, competition, dispute, etc in a large community (~ 26 Million) of Wikipedia users. The other face of Wikipedia as a productive society, is its output, consisting of (~17) Millions of articles written unsupervised by unprofessional editors in more than 270 different languages.  In this talk we report some analysis performed on Wikipedia in two different approaches:  temporal analysis to characterize disputes and controversies among users and  linguistic-based analysis to characterize linguistic features of English texts in Wikipedia.

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