I thought I should add this too as I missed it in the previous email.
This link:
talks about the Content Analysis (seeing number of references removed, or
content removed)-- which we did (with the few articles) and that is what
we followed as it says "generally considered exempt from such requirements
and does not require an IRB approval.".
My advisor should be able to add more thoughts on it (I have requested him
to reply on this thread).
Thanks,
Sidd
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 9:36 PM, siddhartha banerjee <sidd2006(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
As I have mentioned earlier, this is not the first
work on article
generation. This is one of the first work we know:
https://people.csail.
mit.edu/csauper/pubs/sauper-sm-thesis.pdf
https://people.csail.mit.edu/regina/my_papers/wiki.pdf
All these did not mention anything about human subjects as finally no
personal information is used (about the person, who is deleting, etc). Nor
did any reviewers/attendees in the conferences in this area question on
this aspect.
Also,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_
Signpost/2015-01-28/Recent_research is relevant here as it talks about
our previous work.
if "record of someone doing something" is relevant from human subjects
point of view, any data on Wikipedia can be used to find the editors (if
not the real person). For example:
https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI11/paper/viewFile/3505/3968
https://alchemy.cs.washington.edu/papers/wu08/wu08.pdf
I have met several researchers who work using data (revisions from
Wikipedia) and nothin on IRB ever came up.
Nevertheless, as I said, if there are concrete rules, I think it would
help the research community as a whole to know what can or cannot be done
and also ask for permissions.
I appreciate the suggestions that Stuart mentioned in a previous email
abut experimenting on would be deleted or articles lacking sources. But, as
of now we are not planning anything and if we do, we would for sure get in
touch with Denny (who had a video chat with me before starting this thread)
and would try to know the best ways of doing it.
I have asked my PhD advisor (other author on the paper) to check this
thread and he will be able to give more inputs as I am not very qualified
to comment on these aspects.
Thanks,
Sidd