Omnipedia: Bridging the Wikipedia language gap

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1075-1084

  Bao, Patti ^a   Hecht, Brent ^a   Carton, Samuel ^a   Quaderi, Mahmood ^a   Horn, Michael ^a   Gergle, Darren ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hyperlingual; Language barrier; Multilingual; Text mining; User generated content; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

HYPERLINGUAL; LANGUAGE BARRIERS; MULTILINGUAL; TEXT MINING; USER-GENERATED CONTENT; WIKIPEDIA;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84862074186     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208553     Document Type: Conference Paper

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