Just a reminder that this Showcase on knowledge bases and the 2016 US
election will be on Wednesday.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 9:37 AM Janna Layton <jlayton(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, December
18, at 9:30 AM PST/17:30 UTC. We’ll have a presentation from Fabian
Suchanek on incomplete knowledge bases and one from Brian Keegan about
Wikipedia and the 2016 US Presidential election.
YouTube stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4VrphM_TTA
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 presentations:
Making Knowledge Bases More Complete
By Fabian Suchanek, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
A Knowledge Base (KB) is a computer-readable collection of facts about the
world (examples are Wikidata, DBpedia, and YAGO). The problem is that these
KBs are often missing entities or facts. In this talk, I present some new
methods to combat this incompleteness. I will also quickly talk about some
other research projects we are currently pursuing, including a new version
of YAGO. Publications <https://suchanek.name/work/publications/>
The Dynamics of Peer-Produced Political Information During the 2016 U.S.
Presidential Campaign
By Brian Keegan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Information
Science, University of Colorado Boulder
Wikipedia plays a crucial role for online information seeking and its
editors have a remarkable capacity to rapidly revise its content in
response to current events. How did the production and consumption of
political information on Wikipedia mirror the dynamics of the 2016 U.S.
Presidential campaign? Drawing on systems justification theory and methods
for measuring the enthusiasm gap among voters, this paper quantitatively
analyzes the candidates' biographical and related articles and their
editors. Information production and consumption patterns match major events
over the course of the campaign, but Trump-related articles show
consistently higher levels of engagement than Clinton-related articles.
Analysis of the editors' participation and backgrounds show analogous
shifts in the composition and durability of the collaborations around each
candidate. The implications for using Wikipedia to monitor political
engagement are discussed. Paper
<http://www.brianckeegan.com/papers/CSCW_2019_Elections.pdf>
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Janna Layton (she, her)
Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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Janna Layton (she, her)
Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>