Analyzing and visualizing the semantic coverage of Wikipedia and its authors

Complexity

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 30-40

  Holloway, Todd ^a   Bozicevic, Miran ^b,c   Börner, Katy ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Wikipedia Networks Team   (Croatia)

^c Multimedia Institute   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Information visualization; Link analysis; Network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847250940     PISSN: 10762787     EISSN: 10990526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.20164     Document Type: Article

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