Submissions/Lucid Links
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After careful consideration, the programme committee has decided not to accept the below submission at this time. Thank you to the author(s) for participating in the Wikimania 2013 programme submission, we hope to still see you at Wikimania this August. |
- Submission no.
- 4009
- Subject no.
- C1
- Title of the submission
- Lucid Links
- Type of submission
- presentation
- Author of the submission
- Oren Bochman
- Country of origin
- Israel
- Affiliation
- orenbochman
gmail.com
- Username
- OrenBochman
- Personal homepage or blog
- Abstract
Part of the growth of wikis is their development of scale-free link graphs (due to editors' bias to link to common memes). Users on a wiki browse by following many links which can be modeled as a random walk over the link graph. However, in terms of information efficiency, stepping over a scale-free graph is neither effective nor conducive to a pleasant user experience. Lucid Links rank existing and potential links in an article. It offers a Manual of Style-compliant recommendation for optimal wikification, and can be used to improve the information efficiency of a wiki.
- Detailed proposal
Part of the growth of Wikis is their development of scale-free link graphs (due to editors' bias to link to common memes). Users on a wiki browse by following many links which can be modeled as a random walk over the link graph. However, in terms of information efficiency, stepping over a scale-free graph is neither effective nor conducive to a pleasant user experience. Lucid Links rank existing and potential links in an article. It offers a Manual of Style-compliant recommendation for optimal wikification, and can be used to improve the information efficiency of a wiki.
Lucid Links combines a search engine, a recommendation engine and a dynamic programming algorithm which can provide an optimal solution to the question of which terms (and in which sentences) should be wikified. It is a tool that analyzes Wikipedia dumps and extracts both full text and internal linking structure of each article.
This tool helps to perform optimal wikification, using Shannon's information theory, graph theory, and a very simple idea called "regularization"
- Removes over-wikification per the Manual of Style.
- Picks the best links per sentence, considering all the sentences in an article and all possible pages.
- Makes a best effort at disambiguation links via a semantic topic map.
- The method called regularization would transform the "shape of the wiki" from a scale-free network characterized by a few hubs (nodes like USA) to a more regular graph structure in which wikilinks are primarily directed to closely related articles.
- A gadget may be installed which can dynamically wikify all potential links according to their global utility.
- Track
- Analysis and Public Engagement
- Length of presentation/talk
- 25 Minutes
- Language of presentation/talk
English
- Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?
Yes, provided I can secure a suitable scholarship.
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