Thank you, Giovanni, I'll check it out!

Mara

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 10:59 PM, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Mara,
>
> since you were asking about ontologies, let me point you to our work on 
> computational
> fact checking from knowledge networks PLoS ONE
> <http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0128193>.
> We developed a measure of semantic similarity based on shortest paths
> between any two concepts of Wikipedia using the linked data from DBPedia;
> these the are links found in the infoboxes of Wikipedia articles; so it is
> a subset of the hyperlinks of the whole web page.
>
> In the article we use it as a way to check simple relational statements,
> but it could be used for other uses too. And there are also a couple other
> approaches from the literature, which we cite in the paper, that could also
> be relevant for what you are doing.
>
> HTH!
>
> Giovanni
>
>
> Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia <http://glciampaglia.com> *∙* Assistant Research
> Scientist, Indiana University
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Mara Sorella <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody, I'm new to the list and have been referred here by a
>> comment from a SO user as per my question [1], that I'm quoting next:
>>
>>
>> I
>>
>>
>>
>> * have been successfully able to use the Wikipedia pagelinks SQL dump to
>> obtain hyperlinks between Wikipedia pages for a specific revision
>> time.However, there are cases where multiple instances of such links exist,
>> e.g. the very same https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia> page and
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation>. I'm interested to
>> find number of links between pairs of pages for a specific revision. Ideal
>> solutions would involve dump files other than pagelinks (which I'm not
>> aware of), or using the MediaWiki API.*
>>
>>
>>
>> To elaborate, I need this information to weight (almost) every hyperlink
>> between article pages (that is, in NS0), that was present in a specific
>> wikipedia revision (end of 2015), therefore, I would prefer not to follow
>> the solution suggested by the SO user, that would be rather impractical.
>>
>> Indeed, my final aim is to use this weight in a thresholding fashion to
>> sparsify the wikipedia graph (that due to the short diameter is more or
>> less a giant connected component), in a way that should reflect the
>> "relatedness" of the linked pages (where relatedness is not intended as
>> strictly semantic, but at a higher "concept" level, if I may say so).
>> For this reason, other suggestions on how determine such weights
>> (possibly using other data sources -- ontologies?) are more than welcome.
>>
>> The graph will be used as dataset to test an event tracking algorithm I
>> am doing research on.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mara
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42277773/number-of-links-
>> between-two-wikipedia-pages/
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