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 <[email protected]> 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> > > > -- > Janna Layton (she, her) > Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > -- Janna Layton (she, her) Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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