Multilinguals and wikipedia editing

WebSci 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Web Science Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 99-108

  Hale, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross language; Information diffusion; Information discovery; Multilingual; Social media; Social network analysis; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CROSS LANGUAGES; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; INFORMATION DISCOVERY; MULTILINGUAL; SOCIAL MEDIA; WIKIPEDIA;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84904488921     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2615569.2615684     Document Type: Conference Paper

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