Analyzing and visualizing the semantic coverage of Wikipedia and its authors

被引:67
作者
Holloway, Todd
Bozicevic, Miran
Borner, Katy [1 ]
机构
[1] Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[2] Indiana Univ, Dept Comp Sci, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[3] Wikipedia Networks Team, Multimedia Inst, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
关键词
network analysis; link analysis; information visualization;
D O I
10.1002/cplx.20164
中图分类号
O1 [数学];
学科分类号
0701 ; 070101 ;
摘要
This article presents a novel analysis and visualization of English Wikipedia data. Our specific interest is the analysis of basic statistics, the identification of the semantic structure and the age of the categories in this free online encyclopedia, and tire content coverage of its highly productive authors. (c) 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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