Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4966455 | Information Processing & Management | 2017 | 25 Pages |
Abstract
Although primarily an encyclopedia, Wikipedia's expansive content provides a knowledge base that has been continuously exploited by researchers in a wide variety of domains. This article systematically reviews the scholarly studies that have used Wikipedia as a data source, and investigates the means by which Wikipedia has been employed in three main computer science research areas: information retrieval, natural language processing, and ontology building. We report and discuss the research trends of the identified and examined studies. We further identify and classify a list of tools that can be used to extract data from Wikipedia, and compile a list of currently available data sets extracted from Wikipedia.
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Authors
Mohamad Mehdi, Chitu Okoli, Mostafa Mesgari, Finn Ã
rup Nielsen, Arto Lanamäki,