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[Wikimedia Research Showcase] March 18, 2020: Topic Modeling
by Janna Layton 18 Mar '20

18 Mar '20

Hi all, The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, March 18, at 9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC. We’ll have a presentation on topic modeling by Jordan Boyd-Graber. A question-and-answer session will follow. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiD9QTHNVVM As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You can also watch our past research showcases here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase This month's presentation: Big Data Analysis with Topic Models: Evaluation, Interaction, and Multilingual Extensions By: Jordan Boyd-Graber, University of Maryland A common information need is to understand large, unstructured datasets: millions of e-mails during e-discovery, a decade worth of science correspondence, or a day's tweets. In the last decade, topic models have become a common tool for navigating such datasets even across languages. This talk investigates the foundational research that allows successful tools for these data exploration tasks: how to know when you have an effective model of the dataset; how to correct bad models; how to measure topic model effectiveness; and how to detect framing and spin using these techniques. After introducing topic models, I argue why traditional measures of topic model quality---borrowed from machine learning---are inconsistent with how topic models are actually used. In response, I describe interactive topic modeling, a technique that enables users to impart their insights and preferences to models in a principled, interactive way. I will then address measuring topic model effectiveness in real-world tasks. Overview of topic models: https://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu/papers/2017_fntir_tm_applications.pdf Topic model evaluation: http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/nips2009-rtl.pdf Interactive topic modeling: http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/2014_mlj_itm.pdf Topic Models for Categorization: http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/2016_acl_doclabel.pdf -- Janna Layton (she, her) Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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In the press: Wikipedia, WikiProject Medicine, and misinformation
by Pine W 15 Mar '20

15 Mar '20

FYI: *https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-coronavirus *https://www.wired.com/story/how-wikipedia-prevents-spread-coronavirus-misinformation/ Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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WMF Project Grant - CCCC Wikipedia Initiative
by Melanie Kill 15 Mar '20

15 Mar '20

Hi all, I’m writing to ask for feedback and endorsements on a WMF project grant proposal focused on developing support structures for academics editing Wikipedia. The proposal is at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/NCTE/CCCC_Wikipedia_Initiati…. Thanks in advance to those of you who can find a few minutes to consider the proposal, share ideas to improve it on the talk page, and possibly add your endorsement! All my best, Melanie <>–<>–<>–<>–<>–<>–<>–<>–<> Dr. Melanie Kill (she / her) Assistant Professor of English Coordinator of the Rhetoric Minor University of Maryland Chair, CCCC Wikipedia Initiative <https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/wikipedia-initiative/>

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call for papers - International Journal on Natural Language Computing (IJNLC)
by chungcha＠ccsit2019.org 11 Mar '20

11 Mar '20

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON NATURAL LANGUAGE COMPUTING (IJNLC) ISSN: 2278 - 1307 [ONLINE]; 2319 - 4111 [PRINT] HTTP://AIRCCSE.ORG/JOURNAL/IJNLC/INDEX.HTML [1] SCOPE & TOPICS Natural Language Processing is a programmed approach to analyze text that is based on both a set of theories and a set of technologies. This forum aims to bring together researchers who have designed and build software that will analyze, understand, and generate languages that humans use naturally to address computers. TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING * Phonology, Morphology * Chunking/Shallow Parsing * Parsing/Grammatical Formalisms * Semantic Processing * Lexical Semantics * Ontology * Linguistic Resources * Statistical and Knowledge based methods * POS tagging * Discourse * Paraphrasing/Entailment/Generation * Machine Translation * Information Retrieval * Text Mining * Information Extraction * Question Answering * Dialog Systems * Spoken Language Processing * Speech Recognition and Synthesis PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit papers for this journal through E-mail: IJNLCJOURNAL(a)AIRCCSE.ORG. SUBMISSIONS [2] must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this Journal. IMPORTANT DATES * SUBMISSION DEADLINE : MARCH 14, 2020 * Notification : April 14, 2020 * Final Manuscript Due : April 22, 2020 * Publication Date : Determined by the Editor-in-Chief For other details please visit HTTP://AIRCCSE.ORG/JOURNAL/IJNLC/INDEX.HTML CONTACT US Here's where you can reach us: IJNLCJOURNAL(a)AIRCCSE.ORG SUBMISSION LINK: HTTP://CONECO2009.COM/SUBMISSIONS/IMAGINATION/HOME.HTML [2] GOOGLE SCHOLAR CITATION HTTPS://SCHOLAR.GOOGLE.COM/CITATIONS?USER=A5TQIDOAAAAJ&HL=EN [3] All Since 2015 Citations 829 758 h-index 14 14 i10-index 24 21 Links: ------ [1] http://airccse.org/journal/ijnlc/index.html [2] http://coneco2009.com/submissions/imagination/home.html [3] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=A5tqIdoAAAAJ&hl=en

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Announcing Citation Detective, a public dataset of sentences missing citations
by Ai-Jou Chou 11 Mar '20

11 Mar '20

Hi all, I’m happy to announce the outcome of an Outreachy internship <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233707> that I’m finishing up. It is a new tool and public dataset named Citation Detective which tool developers and researchers can now use for their projects. Citation Detective <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Citation_Detective> contains sentences that have been identified as needing a citation using a machine learning-based classifier published earlier last year <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.11116.pdf> by WMF researchers and collaborators. As part of Outreachy, I developed a tool <https://github.com/AikoChou/citationdetective> (hosted on Toolforge <https://tools.wmflabs.org>) to run through Wikipedia and extract high-scoring sentences along with contextual information. As an example use case for this data, I also created a proof of concept for integrating Citation Detective and Citation Hunt <https://tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt>. Check out my prototype Citation Hunt <https://tools.wmflabs.org/aiko-citationhunt>, which uses Citation Detective to import sentences that would not normally be featured in Citation Hunt. The repository for that is here <https://github.com/AikoChou/citationhunt>. This dataset currently includes sentences from ~120,000 randomly selected articles from the English Wikipedia. In future work, we hope to expand this to more language Wikipedia projects and a greater number of articles. It is also possible to expand the database to contain more fields in a future version according to feedback from tool developers and researchers. More use cases for this type of data were identified in a design research project <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Identification_of_Unsourced_Statem…> conducted last year by Jonathan Morgan. You can find more information in our Wiki Workshop submission <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Citation_Detective_WikiWorkshop2020…> and in my blog <https://rollingmist.home.blog/> which documented the whole journey. Thank you very much! Kind regard, Aiko

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Wikipedia DOI
by Thomas Stieve 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

Dear all, I just wanted to ask, does Wikipedia have a DOI? I have done research by data mining the titles and IP edits in Wikipedia. The journal is asking if there is a DOI. I don't see any. Your help is much appreciated, Tom -- Thomas Stieve Ph.D. Candidate School of Geography and Development University of Arizona

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Research grant proposal about community health metrics and editor drop-off
by Cristian Consonni 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

Dear all, I wanted to share this project that I have just proposed for a project grant: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Community_Health_Metrics:_Un… I am proposing this work as part of a team of 3 researchers from Eurecat, a research center in Barcelona. Our aim is to study editor's lifecycle to identify factors associated with editors leaving the project and make what we discover available through dashboards that can be used by the communities to plan further actions. We plan to study interaction metrics over time, and quantify different aspects of editor experience along editors' lifecycle. We will devote special attention to underrepresented groups of users, according to aspects such as gender, country, and native language. We aim to build on the state of the art, and to involve the community as much as possible when choosing on which metrics we should focus on. We welcome any feedback on the proposal. Best, Cristian

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CICM 2020, July 26-31: Call for Papers, extended submission deadline abstracts March 16, 2020/papers March 22, 2020
by serge.autexier＠dfki.de 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

Call for Papers (***Deadline Extension***) formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme 13th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics - CICM 2020 - July 26-31, 2020 Bertinoro, Italy http://www.cicm-conference.org/2020 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of mathematical information. CICM brings together the many separate communities that have developed theoretical and practical solutions for mathematical applications such as computation, deduction, knowledge management, and user interfaces. It offers a venue for discussing problems and solutions in each of these areas and their integration. CICM 2020 Invited Speakers: Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College, London, UK) Catherine Dubois (ENSIIE, CNRS, Evry, France) Christian Szegedy (Google Research, Mountain View, CA, USA) CICM 2020 Programme committee: see https://www.cicm-conference.org/2020/cicm.php?event=&menu=pc CICM 2020 invites submissions in all topics relating to intelligent computer mathematics, in particular but not limited to * theorem proving and computer algebra * mathematical knowledge management * digital mathematical libraries CICM appreciates the varying nature of the relevant research in this area and invites submissions of different forms: 1) Formal submissions will be reviewed rigorously and accepted papers will be published in a volume of Springer LNCS: * regular papers (up to 15 pages including references) present novel research results * project and survey papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography) summarize existing results * system and dataset descriptions (up to 5 pages including references) present digital artifacts * system entry (1 page according to the given LaTeX template) provides metadata and a quick overview of a new tool or a new release of an existent tool 2) Informal submissions will be reviewed with a positive bias and selected for presentation based on their relevance for the community. * informal papers may present work-in-progress, project announcements, position statements, etc. * posters and system demos will be presented in parallel in special sessions 3) The doctoral programme provides PhD students with a forum to present early results and receive constructive feedback and mentoring. *** Important Dates *** Formal submissions (***extended deadlines***) - Abstract deadline: March 16 - Full paper deadline: March 22 - Reviews sent to authors: April 24 - Rebuttals due: April 28 - Notification of acceptance: May 1 - Camera-ready copies due: May 10 - Conference: July 26-31 Informal submissions and doctoral programme Two separate submission rounds are offered so that some authors can make early travel plans while other authors submit spontaneously. - First round submission deadline: April 15 - Notification of acceptance: May 1 - Second round submission deadline: June 15 - Notification of acceptance: July 1 All submissions should be made via easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm13 As in previous years, we will publish the CICM 2020 proceedings with Springer LNCS.

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Wikipedia-Related Job Opportunity: CAT Lab is hiring a Deputy Director
by J. Nathan Matias 02 Mar '20

02 Mar '20

Hi everyone, I have good news! CAT Lab <http://citizensandtech.org/> (formerly CivilServant) is hiring a full-time deputy director! If you or someone you know is interested in working alongside me and the rest of the CAT Lab team to envision and grow our community-led research initiative, send them our way! --- Do you wonder about the role of technology in society? Do you wish for better evidence and greater public influence on the future of our digital lives? The Citizens and Technology Lab (CAT Lab) at the Cornell University Department of Communication is hiring a full-time Deputy Director <https://citizensandtech.org/2020/02/hiring-cat-lab-deputy-director/>, and that could be you (or someone you know)! The Deputy Director will build CAT Lab alongside our Principal Investigator J. Nathan Matias <http://natematias.com/>, focusing on strategy, organization building, management, and administration. We are seeking a creative institution-builder who is energized to imagine and establish a public-interest research organization within one of the world’s leading universities. Full details about the Ithaca-based position (BA minimum degree requirement) are available on the Cornell University HR website: - *Deputy Director, Citizens and Technology Lab – Communication* <https://cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CornellCareerPage/job/Ithaca-Ma…> If you have any questions about the position, please contact J. Nathan Matias at nathan.matias(a)cornell.edu -- J. Nathan Matias <http://natematias.com/> : Cornell University : Citizens and Technology Lab <https://citizensandtech.org> : @natematias <http://twitter.com/natematias> : blog <https://natematias.com/external-posts/>

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U.S. open access policy comment period open [important]
by Jake Orlowitz 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

Hi all, Amazingly, the U.S. science and technology policy office is considering making *all* publicly funded research *open access*. If you are a U.S. citizen, PLEASE comment by March 16th. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/02/19/2020-03189/request-for… Cheers, Jake Orlowitz *Founder of The Wikipedia Library* *Seeker of well people and sane societies* kickstarter: bit.ly/CircleKickstarter me: jakeorlowitz.com mail: jorlowitz(a)gmail.com media: @jakeorlowitz <http://twitter.com/jakeorlowitz> book: welcometothecircle.net

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