Features of Wikipedia Articles and their Extraction Methods for Automatic Information Quality Assessment

Authors

  • Włodzimierz Lewoniewski Poznań University of Economics and Business
  • Krzysztof Węcel Poznań University of Economics and Business

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18559/SOEP.2017.12.7

Keywords:

Quality, Information quality, Quality of services, Information, Access to information, Information effectiveness, Text analysis, Hypertext

Abstract

This article presents and classifi es features that can be extracted from Wikipedia articles for the purpose of automatic information quality assessment. Based on a state of the art analysis and our own experiments, specific measures for various aspects of quality have been defined. Additionally, an extraction method for various sources of features has been proposed. The links between articles in various languages off er opportunities for the comparison and verifi cation of the quality of information delivered by wikipedians. The elaborated model can be used for the relative quality assessment of data contained in the structural parts of Wikipedia articles, namely info boxes.

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2017-12-31

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Lewoniewski , W., & Węcel , K. (2017). Features of Wikipedia Articles and their Extraction Methods for Automatic Information Quality Assessment. Studia Oeconomica Posnaniensia, 5(12), 92-106. https://doi.org/10.18559/SOEP.2017.12.7