Automatic quality assessment of content created collaboratively by web communities: A case study of wikipedia

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 295-304

  Dalip, Daniel Hasan ^a   Gonçalves, Marcos André ^a   Cristo, Marco ^b   Calado, Pável ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FUCAPI   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Quality assessment; SVM; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; COMBINATION METHOD; FREE ACCESS; HUMAN KNOWLEDGE; LINK ANALYSIS; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MACHINE-LEARNING; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS; QUALITY PREDICTION; WEB COMMUNITY; WIKIPEDIA;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; ROBOT LEARNING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 70450235023     PISSN: 15525996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555400.1555449     Document Type: Conference Paper

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