----- 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 >