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Wikipedia Research policy
by song＠cs.umn.edu 14 Jul '23

14 Jul '23

Pursuant to prior discussions about the need for a research policy on Wikipedia, WikiProject Research is drafting a policy regarding the recruitment of Wikipedia users to participate in studies. At this time, we have a proposed policy, and an accompanying group that would facilitate recruitment of subjects in much the same way that the Bot Approvals Group approves bots. The policy proposal can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Research The Subject Recruitment Approvals Group mentioned in the proposal is being described at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subject_Recruitment_Approvals_Group Before we move forward with seeking approval from the Wikipedia community, we would like additional input about the proposal, and would welcome additional help improving it. Also, please consider participating in WikiProject Research at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Research -- Bryan Song GroupLens Research University of Minnesota

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Deadline Extension - COLING 2010 - 2nd Workshop on Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources
by Torsten Zesch 31 May '10

31 May '10

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO June 6, 2010 (due to technical problems that caused our website to be unavailable during the original submission deadline) Direct link to the submission site: https://www.softconf.com/coling2010/PWNLP2010/ COLING 2010 2nd Workshop on "The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources" Beijing August 28th, 2010 http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/coling-2010-workshop/ Keywords: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Mechanical Turk, Games with a purpose, Folksonomies, Twitter, Social Networks INTRODUCTION The workshop builds upon the success of the first ACL "The People's Web meets NLP" Workshop in 2009 that attracted 21 submissions. Accepted submissions included papers on Wikipedia [1], Wiktionary [2], Mechanical Turk [3], and game-based construction of semantic resources [4]. This clearly demonstrates a substantial and growing interest of the NLP community in collaboratively constructed semantic resources (CSRs), also evidenced by the increasing number of publications in this area and the EMNLP 2009 Web 2.0 track. In many works, CSRs have been used to overcome the knowledge acquisition bottleneck and coverage problems pertinent to conventional lexical semantic resources. The greatest popularity in this respect can so far certainly be attributed to Wikipedia [1]. However, other resources, such as folksonomies or the multilingual collaboratively constructed dictionary Wiktionary, have also shown great potential. Thus, the scope of the workshop deliberately includes any collaboratively constructed resource, not only Wikipedia. Effective deployment of CSRs to enhance NLP introduces a pressing need to address a set of fundamental challenges, e.g. the interoperability with existing resources, or the quality of the extracted lexical semantic knowledge. Interoperability between resources is crucial as no single resource provides perfect coverage. The quality of CSRs is a fundamental issue, as they lack editorial control and entries are often incomplete. Thus, techniques for link prediction [5] or information extraction [6] have been proposed to guide the "crowds" while constructing resources of better quality. [1] Olena Medelyan, David Milne, Catherine Legg and Ian H. Witten. Mining meaning from Wikipedia. In: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 67(9), 2009. [2] Torsten Zesch, Christof Mueller and Iryna Gurevych Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary Proceedings of the Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 2008. http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwpl/ http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwktl/ [3] Rion Snow, Brendan O'Connor, Daniel Jurafsky and Andrew Y. Ng. Cheap and Fast---But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations for Natural Language Tasks. Proceedings of EMNLP. 2008. [4] Luis von Ahn and Laura Dabbish. General Techniques for Designing Games with a Purpose. Communications of the ACM, 2008. [5] Rada Mihalcea and Andras Csomai Wikify!: Linking Documents to Encyclopedic Knowledge. Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2007. [6] Daniel S. Weld et al. Intelligence in Wikipedia. Twenty-Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2008. TOPICS The workshop will bring together researchers from different worlds, for example those using collaboratively constructed resources as sources of lexical semantic information for NLP purposes such as information retrieval, named entity recognition, or keyword extraction, and those using NLP techniques to improve the resources or extract and analyze different types of lexical semantic information from them. We will especially welcome contributions of interdisciplinary nature, e.g. those applying discourse analysis techniques from computational linguistics to the content of CSRs to better understand their properties. Specific topics include but are not limited to: * Analysis of collaboratively constructed resources, such as wiki-based platforms, folksonomies, Twitter, or social networks; * Using collaboratively constructed resources for NLP purposes such as information retrieval, text categorization, information extraction, etc.; * Using special features of collaboratively constructed resources to create novel resource types, for example revision-based corpora, simplified versions of resources, etc.; * Analyzing the structure of collaboratively constructed resources related to their use in NLP; * Interoperability of collaboratively constructed resources with conventional lexical semantic resources and between themselves; * Mining social and collaborative content for constructing structured semantic resources and the corresponding tools; * Mining multilingual information from collaboratively constructed resources; * Quality and reliability of collaboratively constructed semantic resources. We especially encourage short papers describing publicly available tools for accessing or analyzing collaboratively constructed resources that can serve as a multiplier in the NLP community. The workshop is intended to be highly interdisciplinary. Thus, we encourage the participation of researchers working on computational linguistics aspects (e.g. parsing or discourse analysis) or NLP applications (e.g. information retrieval, information extraction, question answering, and knowledge representation) as well as researchers from other areas who might benefit from collaboratively constructed semantic resources. Substantially extended versions of the best papers from the workshop can be submitted to a planned Special Issue in one of the major computational linguistics journals. The revised papers will have to undergo a separate reviewing process required for journal publications. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline (full and short): June 6, 2010 Notification of acceptance of papers: June 30, 2010 Camera-ready copy of papers due: July 10, 2010 COLING 2010 Workshop: Aug 28, 2010 ORGANIZERS Iryna Gurevych Torsten Zesch Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andras Csomai Google Inc. Anette Frank Heidelberg University Benno Stein Bauhaus University Weimar Bernardo Magnini ITC-irst Trento Christiane Fellbaum Princeton University Dan Moldovan University of Texas at Dallas Delphine Bernhard LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay Diana McCarthy Lexical Computing Ltd Elke Teich Technische Universität Darmstadt Emily Pitler University of Pennsylvania Eneko Agirre University of the Basque Country Erhard Hinrichs Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Ernesto De Luca Technische Universität Berlin Florian Laws University of Stuttgart Gerard de Melo MPI Saarbrücken German Rigau University of the Basque Country Graeme Hirst University of Toronto Günter Neumman DFKI Saarbrücken György Szarvas Technische Universität Darmstadt Hans-Peter Zorn European Media Lab, Heidelberg José Iria University of Sheffield Laurent Raumary LORIA, Nancy Magnus Sahlgren Swedish Institute of Computer Science Manfred Stede Potsdam University Omar Alonso A9.com, Inc. Pablo Castells Universidad Autónonoma de Madrid Paul Buitelaar DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway Philipp Cimiano Delft University of Technology Razvan Bunescu University of Texas at Austin Rene Witte Concordia University Montréal Roxana Girju University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Saif Mohammad University of Maryland Samer Hassan University of North Texas Sören Auer Leipzig University Tonio Wandmacher CEA, Paris

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Quality and pageviews
by Liam Wyatt 31 May '10

31 May '10

Does anyone know of any research which demonstrates a correlation between the quality of an article in Wikipedia and the number of pageviews it receives? I'm trying to argue, as part of my work with museums, that if they want to get people to come to their own website from wikipedia, then instead of focusing on adding top-level links to the "external links" section, they should instead focus on adding deep-linked footnotes and encouraging the improvement of the quality of the article in general. This is on the basis that "increased quality=increased pageviews=increased clickthroughs". A win-win situation. I have some very nice statistics of pageviews (from stats.grok.se) that match the clickthrough stats from a museum (from their analytics) that clearly demonstrate a correlation between increased pageviews and increased clickthroughs. However, I'm still looking for some scientific data to prove the link between improved article quality and an increase in the number of views of that article. Can anyone help? -Liam wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata

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WikiSym early registration closing soon
by phoebe ayers 26 May '10

26 May '10

(apologies for duplication) Early registration is closing soon for WikiSym 2010 -- the Sixth Annual Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, to be held this year in Gdansk, Poland. The symposium will feature a keynote by Cliff Lampe, research papers and panels about wikis and open collaboration, and an open space track for ongoing discussion. The conference will be held just before Wikimania 2010, the annual community conference of the Wikimedia Foundation, which will offer an opportunity for wiki researchers to meet and interact with Wikimedia community members. Early registration closes May 30. See: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2010/Registration for more information. Phoebe Ayers chair, WikiSym 2010

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Wikimania 2010: Call for Participation Extended
by Casey Brown 22 May '10

22 May '10

Due to numerous requests we have extended the submission deadline for Wikimania 2010 as follows: * Abstract Registration: May 24, 11.59 p.m. (Pacific Time) * Notification for workshops: May 29, 11.59 p.m. (Pacific Time) * Notification for panels, tutorials, presentations: June 3, 11.59 p.m. (Pacific Time) See the Call for Participation for more details: http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/CFP Thank you for helping make Wikimania 2010 a successful event. :-) See you in Gdansk, July 9-11! With best regards, Wikimania Team -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

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Anyone interested in a Wikimania panel on research ethics?
by R.Stuart Geiger 21 May '10

21 May '10

Greetings wiki researchers, Looking through the submissions for Wikimania, I see that there is nothing yet on the subject of researchers in Wikipedia and there could be a good panel or workshop discussion on this topic. At the moment, the theme would be something along the lines of "Researchers in my Wikipedia? It's more likely than you think" and have wiki researchers on the panel who will talk about ethics, protocols, methodologies, and their relation to community norms and policies. Topics like the SRAG are especially relevant, and there are lots of other issues out there with ethnographic research, archival/data privacy, and more. My idea for the Wikimania panel is to build a dialog with the community on these issues, but if there is enough interest, an excellent open space session at WikiSym could easily be organized to deal with the more academic side of this issue. I'm also open to other ideas if other people have them. So if anyone who is going to Wikimania and Wikisym is interested in this, please let me know today or tomorrow. Sorry for doing this so late, but I just realized that the deadline is the 20th. Thanks, Stuart Geiger

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Essays about Research in Wikipedia (for feedback/collaboration)
by Aaron Halfaker 19 May '10

19 May '10

While working on WP:Research and WP:SRAG (research and recruitment policy working drafts), the need to explain who researchers are and why Wikipedians should accommodate them became apparent. In response, I've written a couple of essays about the subject and posted them in the Wikipedia namespace (on en.wp). I'm posting here to request your your feedback and ideas as well as help building and refining the essays. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_are_these_researchers_doing_in_… >From the lead: Expanding articles is not the only way to contribute to Wikipedia. There is room for many different types of contribution: copy edits, content edits, template construction, vandal fighting, bot management, etc. Through the use of the scientific method, researchers contribute to Wikipedia by extended understanding about the community and bringing state-of-the-art technologies to editors. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_are_these_researchers_doing_in_…> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_are_these_researchers_doing_in_…> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don't_bite_the_researchers Nutshell: Please don't bite the researchers. Their work is valuable to the Wikipedia community, but like anyone else, they should be expected to not disrupt the editing process. Thanks! -Aaron Halfaker GroupLens Research University of Minnesota

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 57, Issue 2
by paloma.blanca＠gmx.ch 19 May '10

19 May '10

----- Original Message ----- From: <wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To: <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:40 PM Subject: Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 57, Issue 2 > Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to > wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wiki-research-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wiki-research-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Analyses of Wikipedia quality (Guillaume Paumier) > 2. Re: Analyses of Wikipedia quality (Piotr Konieczny) > 3. Final CfP COLING 2010 - 2nd Workshop on Collaboratively > Constructed Semantic Resources (Torsten Zesch) > 4. Balisage 2010 Contest - Solve the Modern Tower of Babel > (Eric Bloch) > 5. Anyone interested in a Wikimania panel on research ethics? > (R.Stuart Geiger) > 6. Re: Anyone interested in a Wikimania panel onresearch ethics? > (Fuster, Mayo) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 10:26:42 -0700 > From: Guillaume Paumier <guillom.pom(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Analyses of Wikipedia quality > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTildJmrZOU8TOZFIxvefeeXrWTDnlxyj4Hj4X9lA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Greetings, > > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Adrianne Wadewitz <wadewitz(a)gmail.com> > wrote: >> I am looking at submitting a grant so that I can work on an analyses >> of en.wikipedia's coverage of art, literature, and history articles - >> their accuracy, etc. I am looking to establish a complete bibliography >> of all of the "quality" assessments that have been done about >> Wikipedia - on any language. Could we pool our knowledge? > > I would advise to take a look at > http://www.citeulike.org/group/382/tag/quality > > -- > Guillaume Paumier > [[m:User:guillom]] > http://www.gpaumier.org > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 13:50:04 -0400 > From: Piotr Konieczny <piokon(a)post.pl> > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Analyses of Wikipedia quality > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <4BE998CC.5060906(a)post.pl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Guillaume Paumier wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Adrianne Wadewitz <wadewitz(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> I am looking at submitting a grant so that I can work on an analyses >>> of en.wikipedia's coverage of art, literature, and history articles - >>> their accuracy, etc. I am looking to establish a complete bibliography >>> of all of the "quality" assessments that have been done about >>> Wikipedia - on any language. Could we pool our knowledge? >> >> I would advise to take a look at >> http://www.citeulike.org/group/382/tag/quality > > Also, search this page for the string "quality": > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academic_studies_of_Wikipedia > > -- > Piotr Konieczny > PhD Candidate > Dept of Sociology > Uni of Pittsburgh > > "To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on > one's laurels, is defeat." --J?zef Pi?sudski > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 10:12:19 +0200 > From: Torsten Zesch <zesch(a)tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Final CfP COLING 2010 - 2nd Workshop on > Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources > To: "'wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org'" > <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <1FF6659CB8948640A0694C9954BB5A390507AD42F0(a)pandora.tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > COLING 2010 > > 2nd Workshop on > "The People's Web meets NLP: > Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources" > > Beijing > August 28th, 2010 > http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/coling-2010-workshop/ > > > Keywords: > Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Mechanical Turk, Games with a purpose, > Folksonomies, Twitter, Social Networks > > > INTRODUCTION > > The workshop builds upon the success of the first ACL "The People's Web > meets NLP" Workshop in 2009 that attracted 21 submissions. Accepted > submissions included papers on Wikipedia [1], Wiktionary [2], Mechanical > Turk [3], and game-based construction of semantic resources [4]. This > clearly demonstrates a substantial and growing interest of the NLP > community in collaboratively constructed semantic resources (CSRs), > also evidenced by the increasing number of publications in this area > and the EMNLP 2009 Web 2.0 track. In many works, CSRs have been used > to overcome the knowledge acquisition bottleneck and coverage problems > pertinent to conventional lexical semantic resources. The greatest > popularity in this respect can so far certainly be attributed to > Wikipedia [1]. However, other resources, such as folksonomies or the > multilingual collaboratively constructed dictionary Wiktionary, have > also shown great potential. Thus, the scope of the workshop deliberately > includes any collaboratively constructed resource, not only Wikipedia. > > Effective deployment of CSRs to enhance NLP introduces a pressing need > to address a set of fundamental challenges, e.g. the interoperability > with existing resources, or the quality of the extracted lexical > semantic knowledge. Interoperability between resources is crucial as > no single resource provides perfect coverage. The quality of CSRs is > a fundamental issue, as they lack editorial control and entries are > often incomplete. Thus, techniques for link prediction [5] or > information extraction [6] have been proposed to guide the "crowds" > while constructing resources of better quality. > > [1] Olena Medelyan, David Milne, Catherine Legg and Ian H. Witten. > Mining meaning from Wikipedia. > In: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 67(9), 2009. > [2] Torsten Zesch, Christof Mueller and Iryna Gurevych > Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary > Proceedings of the Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation > (LREC), 2008. > http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwpl/ > http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwktl/ > [3] Rion Snow, Brendan O'Connor, Daniel Jurafsky and Andrew Y. Ng. > Cheap and Fast---But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations > for Natural Language Tasks. > Proceedings of EMNLP. 2008. > [4] Luis von Ahn and Laura Dabbish. > General Techniques for Designing Games with a Purpose. > Communications of the ACM, 2008. > [5] Rada Mihalcea and Andras Csomai > Wikify!: Linking Documents to Encyclopedic Knowledge. > Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and > Knowledge Management, CIKM 2007. > [6] Daniel S. Weld et al. > Intelligence in Wikipedia. > Twenty-Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2008. > > > TOPICS > > The workshop will bring together researchers from different worlds, for > example those using collaboratively constructed resources as sources of > lexical semantic information for NLP purposes such as information > retrieval, named entity recognition, or keyword extraction, and those > using NLP techniques to improve the resources or extract and analyze > different types of lexical semantic information from them. We will > especially welcome contributions of interdisciplinary nature, e.g. those > applying discourse analysis techniques from computational linguistics to > the content of CSRs to better understand their properties. > > Specific topics include but are not limited to: > * Analysis of collaboratively constructed resources, such as wiki-based > platforms, folksonomies, Twitter, or social networks; > * Using collaboratively constructed resources for NLP purposes such > as information retrieval, text categorization, information > extraction, etc.; > * Using special features of collaboratively constructed resources to > create novel resource types, for example revision-based corpora, > simplified versions of resources, etc.; > * Analyzing the structure of collaboratively constructed resources > related to their use in NLP; > * Interoperability of collaboratively constructed resources with > conventional lexical semantic resources and between themselves; > * Mining social and collaborative content for constructing structured > semantic resources and the corresponding tools; > * Mining multilingual information from collaboratively constructed > resources; > * Quality and reliability of collaboratively constructed semantic > resources. > > We especially encourage short papers describing publicly available tools > for accessing or analyzing collaboratively constructed resources that can > serve as a multiplier in the NLP community. > > The workshop is intended to be highly interdisciplinary. Thus, we > encourage > the participation of researchers working on computational linguistics > aspects (e.g. parsing or discourse analysis) or NLP applications (e.g. > information retrieval, information extraction, question answering, and > knowledge representation) as well as researchers from other areas who > might benefit from collaboratively constructed semantic resources. > > Substantially extended versions of the best papers from the workshop can > be submitted to a planned Special Issue in one of the major computational > linguistics journals. The revised papers will have to undergo a separate > reviewing process required for journal publications. > > > IMPORTANT DATES > > Paper submission deadline (full and short): May 30, 2010 > Notification of acceptance of papers: June 30, 2010 > Camera-ready copy of papers due: July 10, 2010 > COLING 2010 Workshop: Aug 28, 2010 > > > ORGANIZERS > > Iryna Gurevych > Torsten Zesch > > Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab > Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany > > > PROGRAM COMMITTEE > > Andras Csomai Google Inc. > Anette Frank Heidelberg University > Benno Stein Bauhaus University Weimar > Bernardo Magnini ITC-irst Trento > Christiane Fellbaum Princeton University > Dan Moldovan University of Texas at Dallas > Delphine Bernhard LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay > Diana McCarthy Lexical Computing Ltd > Elke Teich Technische Universit?t Darmstadt > Emily Pitler University of Pennsylvania > Eneko Agirre University of the Basque Country > Erhard Hinrichs Eberhard Karls Universit?t T?bingen > Ernesto De Luca Technische Universit?t Berlin > Florian Laws University of Stuttgart > Gerard de Melo MPI Saarbr?cken > German Rigau University of the Basque Country > Graeme Hirst University of Toronto > G?nter Neumman DFKI Saarbr?cken > Gy?rgy Szarvas Technische Universit?t Darmstadt > Hans-Peter Zorn European Media Lab, Heidelberg > Jos? Iria University of Sheffield > Laurent Raumary LORIA, Nancy > Magnus Sahlgren Swedish Institute of Computer Science > Manfred Stede Potsdam University > Omar Alonso A9.com, Inc. > Pablo Castells Universidad Aut?nonoma de Madrid > Paul Buitelaar DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway > Philipp Cimiano Delft University of Technology > Razvan Bunescu University of Texas at Austin > Rene Witte Concordia University Montr?al > Roxana Girju University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > Saif Mohammad University of Maryland > Samer Hassan University of North Texas > S?ren Auer Leipzig University > Tonio Wandmacher CEA, Paris > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 15:43:30 -0700 > From: Eric Bloch <Eric.Bloch(a)marklogic.com> > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Balisage 2010 Contest - Solve the Modern > Tower of Babel > To: "wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" > <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <94F9268D-7633-4EC0-A89E-78C4176C0A4A(a)marklogic.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi Folks, > > Just thought I'd share news of a wiki-related contest: > > As part of the Balisage 2010 Conference, MarkLogic has put forth a > challenge in the form of a contest. The goal of the contest is to > encourage markup experts to review and to research the current state > of wiki markup languages and to generate a proposal that serves to de- > babelize the current state of affairs for the long haul. > > See > http://developer.marklogic.com/news/marklogic-sponsors-balisage-2010-contest > for details. > > Best, > Eric > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 13:27:06 -0400 > From: "R.Stuart Geiger" <sgeiger(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Anyone interested in a Wikimania panel on > research ethics? > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTinkGy12BxQNw8sIDA49IofXGXPBcJK7j4-C25Al(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Greetings wiki researchers, > > Looking through the submissions for Wikimania, I see that there is nothing > yet on the subject of researchers in Wikipedia and there could be a good > panel or workshop discussion on this topic. At the moment, the theme > would > be something along the lines of "Researchers in my Wikipedia? It's more > likely than you think" and have wiki researchers on the panel who will > talk > about ethics, protocols, methodologies, and their relation to community > norms and policies. Topics like the SRAG are especially relevant, and > there > are lots of other issues out there with ethnographic research, > archival/data > privacy, and more. My idea for the Wikimania panel is to build > a dialog with the community on these issues, but if there is enough > interest, an excellent open space session at WikiSym could easily be > organized to deal with the more academic side of this issue. I'm also > open > to other ideas if other people have them. > > So if anyone who is going to Wikimania and Wikisym is interested in this, > please let me know today or tomorrow. Sorry for doing this so late, but I > just realized that the deadline is the 20th. > > Thanks, > Stuart Geiger >

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Balisage 2010 Contest - Solve the Modern Tower of Babel
by Eric Bloch 19 May '10

19 May '10

Hi Folks, Just thought I'd share news of a wiki-related contest: As part of the Balisage 2010 Conference, MarkLogic has put forth a challenge in the form of a contest. The goal of the contest is to encourage markup experts to review and to research the current state of wiki markup languages and to generate a proposal that serves to de- babelize the current state of affairs for the long haul. See http://developer.marklogic.com/news/marklogic-sponsors-balisage-2010-contest for details. Best, Eric

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Final CfP COLING 2010 - 2nd Workshop on Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources
by Torsten Zesch 12 May '10

12 May '10

COLING 2010 2nd Workshop on "The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources" Beijing August 28th, 2010 http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/coling-2010-workshop/ Keywords: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Mechanical Turk, Games with a purpose, Folksonomies, Twitter, Social Networks INTRODUCTION The workshop builds upon the success of the first ACL "The People's Web meets NLP" Workshop in 2009 that attracted 21 submissions. Accepted submissions included papers on Wikipedia [1], Wiktionary [2], Mechanical Turk [3], and game-based construction of semantic resources [4]. This clearly demonstrates a substantial and growing interest of the NLP community in collaboratively constructed semantic resources (CSRs), also evidenced by the increasing number of publications in this area and the EMNLP 2009 Web 2.0 track. In many works, CSRs have been used to overcome the knowledge acquisition bottleneck and coverage problems pertinent to conventional lexical semantic resources. The greatest popularity in this respect can so far certainly be attributed to Wikipedia [1]. However, other resources, such as folksonomies or the multilingual collaboratively constructed dictionary Wiktionary, have also shown great potential. Thus, the scope of the workshop deliberately includes any collaboratively constructed resource, not only Wikipedia. Effective deployment of CSRs to enhance NLP introduces a pressing need to address a set of fundamental challenges, e.g. the interoperability with existing resources, or the quality of the extracted lexical semantic knowledge. Interoperability between resources is crucial as no single resource provides perfect coverage. The quality of CSRs is a fundamental issue, as they lack editorial control and entries are often incomplete. Thus, techniques for link prediction [5] or information extraction [6] have been proposed to guide the "crowds" while constructing resources of better quality. [1] Olena Medelyan, David Milne, Catherine Legg and Ian H. Witten. Mining meaning from Wikipedia. In: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 67(9), 2009. [2] Torsten Zesch, Christof Mueller and Iryna Gurevych Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary Proceedings of the Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 2008. http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwpl/ http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwktl/ [3] Rion Snow, Brendan O'Connor, Daniel Jurafsky and Andrew Y. Ng. Cheap and Fast---But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations for Natural Language Tasks. Proceedings of EMNLP. 2008. [4] Luis von Ahn and Laura Dabbish. General Techniques for Designing Games with a Purpose. Communications of the ACM, 2008. [5] Rada Mihalcea and Andras Csomai Wikify!: Linking Documents to Encyclopedic Knowledge. Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2007. [6] Daniel S. Weld et al. Intelligence in Wikipedia. Twenty-Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2008. TOPICS The workshop will bring together researchers from different worlds, for example those using collaboratively constructed resources as sources of lexical semantic information for NLP purposes such as information retrieval, named entity recognition, or keyword extraction, and those using NLP techniques to improve the resources or extract and analyze different types of lexical semantic information from them. We will especially welcome contributions of interdisciplinary nature, e.g. those applying discourse analysis techniques from computational linguistics to the content of CSRs to better understand their properties. Specific topics include but are not limited to: * Analysis of collaboratively constructed resources, such as wiki-based platforms, folksonomies, Twitter, or social networks; * Using collaboratively constructed resources for NLP purposes such as information retrieval, text categorization, information extraction, etc.; * Using special features of collaboratively constructed resources to create novel resource types, for example revision-based corpora, simplified versions of resources, etc.; * Analyzing the structure of collaboratively constructed resources related to their use in NLP; * Interoperability of collaboratively constructed resources with conventional lexical semantic resources and between themselves; * Mining social and collaborative content for constructing structured semantic resources and the corresponding tools; * Mining multilingual information from collaboratively constructed resources; * Quality and reliability of collaboratively constructed semantic resources. We especially encourage short papers describing publicly available tools for accessing or analyzing collaboratively constructed resources that can serve as a multiplier in the NLP community. The workshop is intended to be highly interdisciplinary. Thus, we encourage the participation of researchers working on computational linguistics aspects (e.g. parsing or discourse analysis) or NLP applications (e.g. information retrieval, information extraction, question answering, and knowledge representation) as well as researchers from other areas who might benefit from collaboratively constructed semantic resources. Substantially extended versions of the best papers from the workshop can be submitted to a planned Special Issue in one of the major computational linguistics journals. The revised papers will have to undergo a separate reviewing process required for journal publications. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline (full and short): May 30, 2010 Notification of acceptance of papers: June 30, 2010 Camera-ready copy of papers due: July 10, 2010 COLING 2010 Workshop: Aug 28, 2010 ORGANIZERS Iryna Gurevych Torsten Zesch Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andras Csomai Google Inc. Anette Frank Heidelberg University Benno Stein Bauhaus University Weimar Bernardo Magnini ITC-irst Trento Christiane Fellbaum Princeton University Dan Moldovan University of Texas at Dallas Delphine Bernhard LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay Diana McCarthy Lexical Computing Ltd Elke Teich Technische Universität Darmstadt Emily Pitler University of Pennsylvania Eneko Agirre University of the Basque Country Erhard Hinrichs Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Ernesto De Luca Technische Universität Berlin Florian Laws University of Stuttgart Gerard de Melo MPI Saarbrücken German Rigau University of the Basque Country Graeme Hirst University of Toronto Günter Neumman DFKI Saarbrücken György Szarvas Technische Universität Darmstadt Hans-Peter Zorn European Media Lab, Heidelberg José Iria University of Sheffield Laurent Raumary LORIA, Nancy Magnus Sahlgren Swedish Institute of Computer Science Manfred Stede Potsdam University Omar Alonso A9.com, Inc. Pablo Castells Universidad Autónonoma de Madrid Paul Buitelaar DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway Philipp Cimiano Delft University of Technology Razvan Bunescu University of Texas at Austin Rene Witte Concordia University Montréal Roxana Girju University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Saif Mohammad University of Maryland Samer Hassan University of North Texas Sören Auer Leipzig University Tonio Wandmacher CEA, Paris

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