%0 Conference Paper %1 Kittur09what %A Kittur, Aniket %A Chi, Ed H. %A Suh, Bongwon %B CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems %C New York, NY, USA %D 2009 %I ACM %K categories conflicts tagging wikipedia wikipedia_categories wikipedia_discussions %P 1509--1512 %R http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1518701.1518930 %T What's in Wikipedia?: mapping topics and conflict using socially annotated category structure %U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1518701.1518930 %X Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia which has undergone tremendous growth. However, this same growth has made it difficult to characterize its content and coverage. In this paper we develop measures to map Wikipedia using its socially annotated, hierarchical category structure. We introduce a mapping technique that takes advantage of socially-annotated hierarchical categories while dealing with the inconsistencies and noise inherent in the distributed way that they are generated. The technique is demonstrated through two applications: mapping the distribution of topics in Wikipedia and how they have changed over time; and mapping the degree of conflict found in each topic area. We also discuss the utility of the approach for other applications and datasets involving collaboratively annotated category hierarchies. %@ 978-1-60558-246-7

@inproceedings{Kittur09what, abstract = {Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia which has undergone tremendous growth. However, this same growth has made it difficult to characterize its content and coverage. In this paper we develop measures to map Wikipedia using its socially annotated, hierarchical category structure. We introduce a mapping technique that takes advantage of socially-annotated hierarchical categories while dealing with the inconsistencies and noise inherent in the distributed way that they are generated. The technique is demonstrated through two applications: mapping the distribution of topics in Wikipedia and how they have changed over time; and mapping the degree of conflict found in each topic area. We also discuss the utility of the approach for other applications and datasets involving collaboratively annotated category hierarchies.}, added-at = {2010-07-03T12:25:44.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Kittur, Aniket and Chi, Ed H. and Suh, Bongwon}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2c18956e7e19556f092a2ac05943fd64a/davids}, booktitle = {CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems}, description = {What's in Wikipedia?}, doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1518701.1518930}, interhash = {52f3b7584566e8e5f38d95c53b4ad82d}, intrahash = {c18956e7e19556f092a2ac05943fd64a}, isbn = {978-1-60558-246-7}, keywords = {categories conflicts tagging wikipedia wikipedia_categories wikipedia_discussions}, location = {Boston, MA, USA}, pages = {1509--1512}, publisher = {ACM}, timestamp = {2010-07-03T12:25:44.000+0200}, title = {What's in Wikipedia?: mapping topics and conflict using socially annotated category structure}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1518701.1518930}, year = 2009 }