WHAD: Wikipedia historical attributes data
Venue
Language Resources and Evaluation (2013), pp. 28
Publication Year
2013
Authors
Enrique Alfonseca, Guillermo Garrido, Jean-Yves Delort, Anselmo Peñas
BibTeX
Abstract
This paper describes the generation of temporally anchored infobox attribute data
from the Wikipedia history of revisions. By mining (attribute, value) pairs from
the revision history of the English Wikipedia we are able to collect a
comprehensive knowledge base that contains data on how attributes change over time.
When dealing with the Wikipedia edit history, vandalic and erroneous edits are a
concern for data quality. We present a study of vandalism identification in
Wikipedia edits that uses only features from the infoboxes, and show that we can
obtain, on this dataset, an accuracy comparable to a state-of-the-art vandalism
identification method that is based on the whole article. Finally, we discuss
different characteristics of the extracted dataset, which we make available for
further study.
