Hi Everyone, Just a reminder -- this is beginning in a half hour. Hope to see you there!
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 1:54 PM, Sarah R <srodl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, March 21, > 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC. > > YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACevHs0sMMw > > As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. > And, you can watch our past research showcases here > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#March_2018>. > > > Over the past years, the Research team at Wikimedia Foundation and some of > our formal collaborators have been focused on doing research and building > technologies that can help editors across Wikimedia languages find tasks > for contributions. While the early effort was heavily focused on article > recommendation for creation (horizontal expansion), in 2016 we started a > new direction of research with a focus on vertical expansion of Wikipedia > articles. The two talks in the March 2018 Research Showcase will share some > of what we have learned from this research. More specifically, we will talk > about Wikipedia category network as a great signal for creating > templates/structures for Wikipedia articles as well as ongoing research to > learn what content (sections) are missing from Wikipedia across its many > languages. The two corresponding abstracts with more details are below. > Join us! :) > > > Using Wikipedia categories for research: opportunities, challenges, and > solutionsBy *Tiziano Piccardi, EPFL*The category network in Wikipedia is > used by editors as a way to label articles and organize them in a > hierarchical structure. This manually created and curated network of 1.6 > million nodes in English Wikipedia generated by arranging the categories in > a child-parent relation (i.e., Scientists-People, Cities-Human Settlement) > allows researchers to infer valuable relations between concepts. A clean > structure in this format would be a valuable resource for a variety of > tools and application including automatic reasoning tools. Unfortunately, > Wikipedia category network contains some "noise" since in many cases the > association as subcategory does not define an is-a relation (Scientists > is-a People vs. Billionaires is-a Wealth). Inspired to develop a model for > recommending sections to be added to the already existing Wikipedia > articles, we developed a method to clean this network and to keep only the > categories that have a high chance to be associated with their children by > an is-a relation. The strategy is based on the concept of "pure" > categories, and the algorithm uses the types of the attached articles to > determine how homogenous the category is. The approach does not rely on any > linguistic feature and therefore is suitable for all Wikipedia languages. > In this talk, we will discuss the high-level overview of the algorithm and > some of the possible applications for the generated network beyond article > section recommendations. > > > Beyond Automatic Translation: Aligning Wikipedia sections across multiple > languagesBy *Diego Saez-Trumper*Sections are the building blocks of > Wikipedia articles. For editors, they can be used as an entry point for > creating and expanding articles. For readers, they enhance readability of > Wikipedia content. In this talk, we present an ongoing research to align > article sections across Wikipedia languages. We show how the available > technology for automatic translations are not good enough for translating > section titles. We then show a complementary approach for section > alignment, using Wikidata and cross-lingual word embeddings. We will > present some of the use-cases of a methodology for aligning sections across > languages, including improved section recommendation, especially in medium > to smaller size languages where the language itself may not contain enough > signal about the structure of the articles and signals can be inferred from > other larger Wikipedia languages. > > Sarah R. Rodlund > Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation > srodl...@wikimedia.org > > > > -- Sarah R. Rodlund Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation | Hic sunt leones srodl...@wikimedia.org *“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr <https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23924.Martin_Luther_King_Jr_>* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
