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English proofreading of my AICCSA paper
by abdelwaheb turki 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

Dear Mr. or Ms., I thank you for your support to my AICCSA paper. This is an honour of me. I have done quite all the required revisions. However, its English is still not proofread. I ask if you can verify and adjust the language quality of my AICCSA paper. It is currently available in https://1drv.ms/w/s!AiC69hcGxSVPl1UI1SV81mkr2uVu. As for the grant to attend AICCSA 2017, you can still endorse it in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Csisc/Presenting_Wikid….<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Csisc/Presenting_Wikid…> Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki [https://6swnyw.bn1304.livefilestore.com/y4mYIqWzSGilmMo-Bfxw251baLYJvCcGZlQ…]<https://1drv.ms/w/s!AiC69hcGxSVPl1UI1SV81mkr2uVu> [https://r1.res.office365.com/owa/prem/images/dc-docx_40.png]<https://1drv.ms/w/s!AiC69hcGxSVPl1UI1SV81mkr2uVu> AICCSA-Copie-_2_ 2.docx<https://1drv.ms/w/s!AiC69hcGxSVPl1UI1SV81mkr2uVu> Partagé via OneDrive ________________________________ De : ANLP2017 <anlp2017(a)easychair.org> Envoyé : mercredi 16 août 2017 00:53 À : Houcemeddine Turki Objet : ANLP2017 notification for paper 3 Dear Dr.Houcemeddine Turki Congratulations! On behalf of the ANLP 2017 workshop and Conference Committees of the 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2017, October 30th to November 3rd, 2017. we are happy to inform you that your paper entitled: Using WikiData to create a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects has been accepted for presentation and inclusion in the Proceedings of AICCSA - ANLP 2017, published by IEEE. Please see the reviewers’ comments below on your paper. These comments are intended to help you to improve your paper for final publication. The listed comments should be addressed, as final acceptance is conditional upon appropriate response to the requirements and comments. The conference committee retains a list of certain critical comments to be addressed by authors, and will control that these have been addressed in the camera-ready version. What is next: ------------- The AICCSA website is updated now with required information. Please find below the details for the camera ready submission and the registration. Camera ready submission: Due date: 31/8/2017 Submission information can be found at the following link: http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2017/submission Final Camera Ready and copyright instructions<http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2017/submission> www.aiccsa.net 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2017 October 30th to November 3rd, 2017 Paper Registration: Due date: 8/9/2017 The registration information can be found at the following link: http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2017/registration Registration - AICCSA<http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2017/registration> www.aiccsa.net 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2017 October 30th to November 3rd, 2017 We are looking to meet you in AICCSA 2017. Best Regards, AICCSA - ANLP 2017 Organization Team. ============================== ----------------------- REVIEW 1 --------------------- PAPER: 3 TITLE: Using WikiData to create a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects AUTHORS: Houcemeddine Turki, Denny Vrandečić, Helmi Hamdi and Imed Adel Overall evaluation: 1 (weak accept) ----------- Overall evaluation ----------- It is an interesting work with valid assumption and its proposed ideas also in line with the expectation of the event. Overall, I think, this paper is interesting and has good contribution to this topic. However, the authors are advised to have the following points on their revised version: -Please elaborate in details about the proposed approach with more focusing on the relations between its components, as they are the core of the solution and need more justification of why to use them. -Overall technical exposition must be strengthened with more concrete examples. -The authors are urged to summarize and list the key observations from the paper. -The paper is readable but a language improvement using a native speaker is recommended. -Some minor editorial issue, like enhancing the plots quality, the equations, etc... -Many reference are with *incomplete* bibliographic information (like lack of publication venue, for instance). This must be corrected. In summery, it a well prepared paper. ----------------------- REVIEW 2 --------------------- PAPER: 3 TITLE: Using WikiData to create a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects AUTHORS: Houcemeddine Turki, Denny Vrandečić, Helmi Hamdi and Imed Adel Overall evaluation: 0 (borderline paper) ----------- Overall evaluation ----------- The paper technical content is very marginal, the paper has many language and editorial issue, a better results presentation and figs quality are needed. i guess the paper is not ready for publication yet. Other issues to be considered too: - The paper lacks clarity in motivating the proposed research and in stating its expected outcome - the review of the state of the art lacks an analysis of the existing work and the positioning of the research in the state of the art - The methodology is too general and does not convincingly show the feasibility of the proposed approach - the research lacks a concrete illustration on a case study. recommendation to the authors - to clearly state the objective of the research in terms of problems to address and expected results and show how the proposed research will advance the state of the art by overcoming the limitations of the existing work - to preset an analysis of the state of the art and discuss the benefits/limitations of the existing approaches with respect to the addressed research problem - to be more precise in the description of the methodology and show how the methodology would achieve the stated objectives - to discuss the future plans with respect to the research state of progress and its limitations There is serious issue with many editorials in the paper that need to be fixed, many of the figs are fuzzy and need to be reconsidered again.

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] feedback appreciated
by James Salsman 27 Aug '17

27 Aug '17

Dr. Heather Ford wrote: >... You may want to read Angele Christin's paper that just came > out in Big Data and Society that complicates the notion of judges > accepting algorithmic reasoning wholesale in making decisions. > > http://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SPgDYyisV8mAJn4fm7Xi/full I am in Australia right now, working today to save its would-be immigrants from stupid robot AI pronunciation assessments: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/08/computer-says-no-iri… http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/australian-exnews-reader-w… I clearly remember the day in 1996 when the guy who since wrote the Pearson Spoken English test rejected my attempts at accent adaptation. The fight isn't against robots, it's against their lazy creators. Best regards, James

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share research without paywalls or requests for personal information?
by James Salsman 24 Aug '17

24 Aug '17

However, I am not comfortable seeing research papers being shared on this list in manners which ask the readers to disclose their personal information: http://imgur.com/a/qtzRS Can we please have some baseline standards for sharing research without any paywalls or requests for personal information? On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 9:04 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I have to recuse myself from the reviews until further notice because > I am publishing on the topic: > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsalsman/featex/master/Spoken-English-Int… > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 8:00 PM, > <wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: >> 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. Upcoming research newsletter: new papers open for review >> (masssly(a)ymail.com) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:39:41 +0000 >> From: <masssly(a)ymail.com> >> To: Wikimedia Research Mailing List >> <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> >> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Upcoming research newsletter: new papers >> open for review >> Message-ID: <971883.20493.bm(a)smtp140.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Hi, >> >> We’re preparing for the June 2017 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: >> https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201706 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is Friday August 25 UTC although actual publication may take place several days later. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome. >> >> Highlights from this month: >> >> • ‘What are these researchers doing in my Wikipedia?’: ethical premises and practical judgment in internet-based ethnography >> • 280 Birds with One Stone: Inducing Multilingual Taxonomies from Wikipedia using Character-level Classification >> • Analysing Timelines of National Histories across Wikipedia Editions: A Comparative Computational Approach >> • Assessing and Improving Domain Knowledge Representation in Dbpedia >> • Chaudron: Extending DBpedia with measurement >> • Cultural diversity of quality of information on Wikipedias >> • Digging Wikipedia: The Online Encyclopedia As a Digital Cultural Heritage Gateway and Site >> • Evaluation of Metadata Representations in RDF stores >> • High-Throughput and Language-Agnostic Entity Disambiguation and Linking on User Generated Data >> • Measuring Global Disease with Wikipedia: Success, Failure, and a Research Agenda >> • Measuring Global Disease with Wikipedia: Success, Failure, and a Research Agenda >> • Predicting Member Productivity and Withdrawal from Pre-Joining Attachments in Online Production Groups >> • Problematizing and Addressing the Article-as-Concept Assumption in Wikipedia >> • Scholia and scientometrics with Wikidata >> • Shocking the Crowd: The Effect of Censorship Shocks on Chinese Wikipedia >> • Spammer Users Identification in Wikipedia via Editing Behavior >> • Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Reverted Wikipedia Edits >> • The Evolution and Consequences of Peer Producing Wikipedia's Rules >> • The Substantial Interdependence of Wikipedia and Google: A Case Study on the Relationship Between Peer Production Communities and Information Technologies >> • The Unusual Suspects: Deep Learning Based Mining of Interesting Entity Trivia from Knowledge Graphs >> • The Wikipedia Adventure: Field Evaluation of an Interactive Tutorial for New Users >> • TokTrack: A Complete Token Provenance and Change Tracking Dataset for the English Wikipedia >> • Visualizing Rank Time Series of Wikipedia Top-Viewed Pages >> • Who Wants to Read This?: A Method for Measuring Topical Representativeness in User Generated Content Systems >> • WikiSeq: Mining Maximally Informative Simple Sequences from Wikipedia >> • Wikum: Bridging Discussion Forums and Wikis Using Recursive Summarization >> >> If you have any question about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list. >> >> Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli >> >> [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Research:Newsletter >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Subject: Digest Footer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> End of Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 144, Issue 15 >> ************************************************

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 144, Issue 15
by James Salsman 24 Aug '17

24 Aug '17

I have to recuse myself from the reviews until further notice because I am publishing on the topic: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsalsman/featex/master/Spoken-English-Int… On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 8:00 PM, <wiki-research-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > 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. Upcoming research newsletter: new papers open for review > (masssly(a)ymail.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:39:41 +0000 > From: <masssly(a)ymail.com> > To: Wikimedia Research Mailing List > <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Upcoming research newsletter: new papers > open for review > Message-ID: <971883.20493.bm(a)smtp140.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi, > > We’re preparing for the June 2017 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: > https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201706 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is Friday August 25 UTC although actual publication may take place several days later. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome. > > Highlights from this month: > > • ‘What are these researchers doing in my Wikipedia?’: ethical premises and practical judgment in internet-based ethnography > • 280 Birds with One Stone: Inducing Multilingual Taxonomies from Wikipedia using Character-level Classification > • Analysing Timelines of National Histories across Wikipedia Editions: A Comparative Computational Approach > • Assessing and Improving Domain Knowledge Representation in Dbpedia > • Chaudron: Extending DBpedia with measurement > • Cultural diversity of quality of information on Wikipedias > • Digging Wikipedia: The Online Encyclopedia As a Digital Cultural Heritage Gateway and Site > • Evaluation of Metadata Representations in RDF stores > • High-Throughput and Language-Agnostic Entity Disambiguation and Linking on User Generated Data > • Measuring Global Disease with Wikipedia: Success, Failure, and a Research Agenda > • Measuring Global Disease with Wikipedia: Success, Failure, and a Research Agenda > • Predicting Member Productivity and Withdrawal from Pre-Joining Attachments in Online Production Groups > • Problematizing and Addressing the Article-as-Concept Assumption in Wikipedia > • Scholia and scientometrics with Wikidata > • Shocking the Crowd: The Effect of Censorship Shocks on Chinese Wikipedia > • Spammer Users Identification in Wikipedia via Editing Behavior > • Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Reverted Wikipedia Edits > • The Evolution and Consequences of Peer Producing Wikipedia's Rules > • The Substantial Interdependence of Wikipedia and Google: A Case Study on the Relationship Between Peer Production Communities and Information Technologies > • The Unusual Suspects: Deep Learning Based Mining of Interesting Entity Trivia from Knowledge Graphs > • The Wikipedia Adventure: Field Evaluation of an Interactive Tutorial for New Users > • TokTrack: A Complete Token Provenance and Change Tracking Dataset for the English Wikipedia > • Visualizing Rank Time Series of Wikipedia Top-Viewed Pages > • Who Wants to Read This?: A Method for Measuring Topical Representativeness in User Generated Content Systems > • WikiSeq: Mining Maximally Informative Simple Sequences from Wikipedia > • Wikum: Bridging Discussion Forums and Wikis Using Recursive Summarization > > If you have any question about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list. > > Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli > > [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Research:Newsletter > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 144, Issue 15 > ************************************************

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Upcoming research newsletter: new papers open for review
by masssly＠ymail.com 23 Aug '17

23 Aug '17

Hi, We’re preparing for the June 2017 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201706 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is Friday August 25 UTC although actual publication may take place several days later. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome. Highlights from this month: • ‘What are these researchers doing in my Wikipedia?’: ethical premises and practical judgment in internet-based ethnography • 280 Birds with One Stone: Inducing Multilingual Taxonomies from Wikipedia using Character-level Classification • Analysing Timelines of National Histories across Wikipedia Editions: A Comparative Computational Approach • Assessing and Improving Domain Knowledge Representation in Dbpedia • Chaudron: Extending DBpedia with measurement • Cultural diversity of quality of information on Wikipedias • Digging Wikipedia: The Online Encyclopedia As a Digital Cultural Heritage Gateway and Site • Evaluation of Metadata Representations in RDF stores • High-Throughput and Language-Agnostic Entity Disambiguation and Linking on User Generated Data • Measuring Global Disease with Wikipedia: Success, Failure, and a Research Agenda • Measuring Global Disease with Wikipedia: Success, Failure, and a Research Agenda • Predicting Member Productivity and Withdrawal from Pre-Joining Attachments in Online Production Groups • Problematizing and Addressing the Article-as-Concept Assumption in Wikipedia • Scholia and scientometrics with Wikidata • Shocking the Crowd: The Effect of Censorship Shocks on Chinese Wikipedia • Spammer Users Identification in Wikipedia via Editing Behavior • Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Reverted Wikipedia Edits • The Evolution and Consequences of Peer Producing Wikipedia's Rules • The Substantial Interdependence of Wikipedia and Google: A Case Study on the Relationship Between Peer Production Communities and Information Technologies • The Unusual Suspects: Deep Learning Based Mining of Interesting Entity Trivia from Knowledge Graphs • The Wikipedia Adventure: Field Evaluation of an Interactive Tutorial for New Users • TokTrack: A Complete Token Provenance and Change Tracking Dataset for the English Wikipedia • Visualizing Rank Time Series of Wikipedia Top-Viewed Pages • Who Wants to Read This?: A Method for Measuring Topical Representativeness in User Generated Content Systems • WikiSeq: Mining Maximally Informative Simple Sequences from Wikipedia • Wikum: Bridging Discussion Forums and Wikis Using Recursive Summarization If you have any question about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list. Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Research:Newsletter

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About my AICCSA paper
by abdelwaheb turki 22 Aug '17

22 Aug '17

Dear Mr. or Ms., I thank you for your support to my Wikimedia grant. This is an honour of me. Upon the request of Mr. Federico Leva, I share with you my paper that will be presented in AICCSA 2017. It is currently available in https://1drv.ms/w/s!AiC69hcGxSVPl1UI1SV81mkr2uVu. However, the paper requires to be adjusted. As you can see below, the reviewers have already asked me to do several important adjustments. If someone would like to adjust the paper, he is invited to directly adjust the paper in OneDrive or offline or to reply to this email and explain his proposal. As for the proposal of Mr. Leva, I liked it and I ask if he can give me some details about how to apply it to my research paper. As for the grant, it is still open and that is why I invite you to endorse it in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Csisc/Presenting_Wikid….<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Csisc/Presenting_Wikid…> This will help me to have the grant to attend this ERA C Class conference. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki [https://6swnyw.bn1304.livefilestore.com/y4mYIqWzSGilmMo-Bfxw251baLYJvCcGZlQ…]<https://1drv.ms/w/s!AiC69hcGxSVPl1UI1SV81mkr2uVu> [https://r1.res.office365.com/owa/prem/images/dc-docx_40.png]<https://1drv.ms/w/s!AiC69hcGxSVPl1UI1SV81mkr2uVu> AICCSA-Copie-_2_ 2.docx<https://1drv.ms/w/s!AiC69hcGxSVPl1UI1SV81mkr2uVu> Partagé via OneDrive ________________________________ De : ANLP2017 <anlp2017(a)easychair.org> Envoyé : mercredi 16 août 2017 00:53 À : Houcemeddine Turki Objet : ANLP2017 notification for paper 3 Dear Dr.Houcemeddine Turki Congratulations! On behalf of the ANLP 2017 workshop and Conference Committees of the 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2017, October 30th to November 3rd, 2017. we are happy to inform you that your paper entitled: Using WikiData to create a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects has been accepted for presentation and inclusion in the Proceedings of AICCSA - ANLP 2017, published by IEEE. Please see the reviewers’ comments below on your paper. These comments are intended to help you to improve your paper for final publication. The listed comments should be addressed, as final acceptance is conditional upon appropriate response to the requirements and comments. The conference committee retains a list of certain critical comments to be addressed by authors, and will control that these have been addressed in the camera-ready version. What is next: ------------- The AICCSA website is updated now with required information. Please find below the details for the camera ready submission and the registration. Camera ready submission: Due date: 31/8/2017 Submission information can be found at the following link: http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2017/submission Final Camera Ready and copyright instructions<http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2017/submission> www.aiccsa.net 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2017 October 30th to November 3rd, 2017 Paper Registration: Due date: 8/9/2017 The registration information can be found at the following link: http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2017/registration Registration - AICCSA<http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2017/registration> www.aiccsa.net 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2017 October 30th to November 3rd, 2017 We are looking to meet you in AICCSA 2017. Best Regards, AICCSA - ANLP 2017 Organization Team. ============================== ----------------------- REVIEW 1 --------------------- PAPER: 3 TITLE: Using WikiData to create a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects AUTHORS: Houcemeddine Turki, Denny Vrandečić, Helmi Hamdi and Imed Adel Overall evaluation: 1 (weak accept) ----------- Overall evaluation ----------- It is an interesting work with valid assumption and its proposed ideas also in line with the expectation of the event. Overall, I think, this paper is interesting and has good contribution to this topic. However, the authors are advised to have the following points on their revised version: -Please elaborate in details about the proposed approach with more focusing on the relations between its components, as they are the core of the solution and need more justification of why to use them. -Overall technical exposition must be strengthened with more concrete examples. -The authors are urged to summarize and list the key observations from the paper. -The paper is readable but a language improvement using a native speaker is recommended. -Some minor editorial issue, like enhancing the plots quality, the equations, etc... -Many reference are with *incomplete* bibliographic information (like lack of publication venue, for instance). This must be corrected. In summery, it a well prepared paper. ----------------------- REVIEW 2 --------------------- PAPER: 3 TITLE: Using WikiData to create a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects AUTHORS: Houcemeddine Turki, Denny Vrandečić, Helmi Hamdi and Imed Adel Overall evaluation: 0 (borderline paper) ----------- Overall evaluation ----------- The paper technical content is very marginal, the paper has many language and editorial issue, a better results presentation and figs quality are needed. i guess the paper is not ready for publication yet. Other issues to be considered too: - The paper lacks clarity in motivating the proposed research and in stating its expected outcome - the review of the state of the art lacks an analysis of the existing work and the positioning of the research in the state of the art - The methodology is too general and does not convincingly show the feasibility of the proposed approach - the research lacks a concrete illustration on a case study. recommendation to the authors - to clearly state the objective of the research in terms of problems to address and expected results and show how the proposed research will advance the state of the art by overcoming the limitations of the existing work - to preset an analysis of the state of the art and discuss the benefits/limitations of the existing approaches with respect to the addressed research problem - to be more precise in the description of the methodology and show how the methodology would achieve the stated objectives - to discuss the future plans with respect to the research state of progress and its limitations There is serious issue with many editorials in the paper that need to be fixed, many of the figs are fuzzy and need to be reconsidered again.

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Research Showcase Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC
by Sarah R 21 Aug '17

21 Aug '17

Hi Everyone, The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa0Ztv2iF4w As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And, you can watch our past research showcases here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#August_2017>. This month's presentation: Sneha Narayan (Northwestern University) *The Wikipedia Adventure: Field Evaluation of an Interactive Tutorial for New Users* Integrating new users into a community with complex norms presents a challenge for peer production projects like Wikipedia. We present The Wikipedia Adventure (TWA): an interactive tutorial that offers a structured and gamified introduction to Wikipedia. In addition to describing the design of the system, we present two empirical evaluations. First, we report on a survey of users, who responded very positively to the tutorial. Second, we report results from a large-scale invitation-based field experiment that tests whether using TWA increased newcomers' subsequent contributions to Wikipedia. We find no effect of either using the tutorial or of being invited to do so over a period of 180 days. We conclude that TWA produces a positive socialization experience for those who choose to use it, but that it does not alter patterns of newcomer activity. We reflect on the implications of these mixed results for the evaluation of similar social computing systems. Andrew Su (Scripps Research Institute) *The Gene Wiki: Using Wikipedia and Wikidata to organize biomedical knowledge* The Gene Wiki project began in 2007 with the goal of creating a collaboratively-written, community-reviewed, and continuously-updated review article for every human gene within Wikipedia. In 2013, shortly after the creation of the Wikidata project, the project expanded to include the organization and integration of structured biomedical data. This talk will focus on our current and future work, including efforts to encourage contributions from biomedical domain experts, to build custom applications that use Wikidata as the back-end knowledge base, and to promote CC0-licensing among biomedical knowledge resources. Comments, feedback and contributions are welcome at https://github.com/SuLab/genewikicentral and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/WD:MB. Kindly, Sarah R. Rodlund Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation srodlund(a)wikimedia.org

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Endorse my rapid grant to attend AICCSA conference and convince Arab Computational Linguists to use Wikidata
by abdelwaheb turki 20 Aug '17

20 Aug '17

Dear Mr. or Ms., I was accepted several days ago to present my paper about using Wikidata in Arabic Natural Language Processing in AICCSA. AICCSA is an ERA C Class international conference that is attended by hundreds of researchers each year. As I cannot pay the registration and accomodation fees for the conference, I applied for a rapid grant from Wikimedia Foundation. I ask if you can endorse my application available in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Csisc/Presenting_Wikid… so that I will not cancel my participation to this international conference due to the lack of means. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki

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Error rates in databases
by Gerard Meijssen 11 Aug '17

11 Aug '17

Hoi, I am quite confident that this has been researched elsewhere.. * What error rate can you expect from manual edits in a repository like Wikidata (well intended contributors) * What error rate can you expect from bot edits in a repository like Wikidata (run by well intended operators) Two observations this may include errors from the original data source ie no operational errors - when this effect has been excluded .. what error rate remains ? Thanks, GerardM PS it helps with an argument where people do not appreciate that anyone makes mistakes.. I have understood that the error rate is around 6%..

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The May 2017 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out
by masssly＠ymail.com 10 Aug '17

10 Aug '17

The May 2017 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/08/06/research-newsletter-may-2017/ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2017/May In this issue: 1 "Wikipedia matters": a significant impact of user-generated content on real-life choices 2 Improved article quality predictions with deep learning 3 Recent behavior has a strong impact on content quality 4 Briefly 4.1 Predicting book categories for Wikipedia articles *** 13 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue *** Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli --- Wikimedia Research Newsletter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/ * Follow us on Twitter: @WikiResearch * Like us on Facebook: Facebook.com/WikiResearch/ * Receive this newsletter by mail: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/research-newsletter * Subscribe to the RSS feed: http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/research-2/wikimedia-research-newsletter/feed/

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