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> 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?
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
>
>
>
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> 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
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> 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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> 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?
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> 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
>