Evolution of wikipedia's category structure

Advances in Complex Systems

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages

  Suchecki, Krzysztof ^a,b,c   Salah, Alkim Almila Akdag ^d,e   Gao, Cheng ^f   Scharnhorst, Andrea ^a,g  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f No 10 Building ^*  (China)

^g Data Archiving and Networked Services   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Classification systems; evolution; knowledge organization; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862534158     PISSN: 02195259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219525912500683     Document Type: Article

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