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An Efficient Approach for Measuring Semantic Similarity Combining WordNet and Wikipedia
IEEE Access, 2020 The measurement of semantic similarity between concepts is an important research topic in natural language processing. In the past, several approaches for measuring the semantic similarity between concepts have been proposed based on WordNet or Wikipedia.
Fei Li +5 more
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Is Wikipedia Inefficient? Modelling Effort and Participation in Wikipedia [PDF]
2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2013 Concerns have been raised about the decreased ability of Wikipedia to recruit editors and in to harness the effort of contributors to create new articles and improve existing articles. But, as [1], [2] explained, in collective projects, in the initial stage of the project, people are few and efforts costly; in the diffusion phase, the number of ...
Kevin Crowston +2 more
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Mining meaning from Wikipedia [PDF]
, 2008 Wikipedia is a goldmine of information; not just for its many readers, but also for the growing community of researchers who recognize it as a resource of exceptional scale and utility.
Legg, Catherine +3 more
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Citations to Wikipedia in Chemistry Journals: A Preliminary Study.
Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2011 Wikipedia has been the subject of an increasing number of studies. Many of these have focused on the quality of Wikipedia articles and the use of Wikipedia by students. Little research has focused on the use of Wikipedia by scholars. This study helps to
Bradley Brazzeal
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Using Wikipedia Assignments to Teach Critical Thinking and Scientific Writing in STEM Courses
Frontiers in Education, 2022 While many instructors have reservations against Wikipedia use in academic settings, editing Wikipedia teaches students valuable writing, editing, and critical thinking skills.
Jolie A. L. Gareis +15 more
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Health Informatics Journal, 2020 Medical information on English Wikipedia was accessed over 2 billion times in 2018. Our goal was to develop an automated system to assist Wikipedia volunteers to improve articles with high-quality sources from journals such as The Cochrane Library.
Arash Joorabchi +2 more
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Students’ Attitudes Towards the Use of Wikipedia: A Teaching Tool and a Way to Modernize Teaching
Área Abierta, 2021 This paper presents a research on students’ attitudes towards the use of Wikipedia in teaching. The sample was comprised of students from the Pedagogical Faculty in Vranje, a higher education institution affiliated with the University of Niš, Serbia ...
Đorđe Stakić +3 more
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Education Sciences, 2023 Today’s education has been shaped by the rapid development of digital technologies and easy accessibility to a large number of electronic sources. This has instigated a genuine need to change current teaching attitudes and practices.
Riina Reinsalu +4 more
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Entre « communautés des contributeurs » et « société des usagers », les communs de masse
Terminal, 2021 This article questions the sociological effects of the massification of a common from the analysis of the French version of Wikipedia. We use in particular the survey « Wikipedia 2015 » conducted by the GIS Marsouin in March 2015 among readers and ...
Léo JOUBERT
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 AbstractWe document a causal impact of online user‐generated information on real‐world economic outcomes. In particular, we conduct a randomized field experiment to test whether additional content on Wikipedia pages about cities affects tourists' choices of overnight visits.
Marit Hinnosaar +3 more
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