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Linking wikipedia to the web

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We investigate the task of finding links from Wikipedia pages to external web pages. Such external links significantly extend the information in Wikipedia with information from the Web at large, while retaining the encyclopedic organization of Wikipedia. We use a language modeling approach to create a full-text and anchor text runs, and experiment with different document priors. In addition we explore whether social bookmarking site Delicious can be exploited to further improve our performance. We have constructed a test collection of 53 topics, which are Wikipedia pages on different entities. Our findings are that the anchor text index is a very effective method to retrieve home pages. Url class and anchor text length priors and their combination leads to the best results. Using Delicious on its own does not lead to very good results, but it does contain valuable information. Combining the best anchor text run and the Delicious run leads to further improvements.

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N. Craswell, D. Hawking, and S. Robertson. Effective site ending using link anchor information. In SIGIR '01, pages 250--257, 2001.
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D. W. Huang, Y. Xu, A. Trotman, and S. Geva. Overview of INEX 2007 link the wiki track. In Focused Access to XML Documents, pages 373--387, 2008.
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W. Kraaij, T. Westerveld, and D. Hiemstra. The importance of prior probabilities for entry page search. In SIGIR '02, pages 27--34, 2002.

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    SIGIR '10: Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
    July 2010
    944 pages
    ISBN:9781450301534
    DOI:10.1145/1835449
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    1. entity search
    2. link detection
    3. wikipedia

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    • (2015)A comprehensive evaluation of scholarly paper recommendation using potential citation papersInternational Journal on Digital Libraries10.1007/s00799-014-0122-216:2(91-109)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2015
    • (2011)English-to-Korean Cross-Lingual Link Detection for WikipediaU- and E-Service, Science and Technology10.1007/978-3-642-27210-3_36(274-280)Online publication date: 2011

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