Examining the "leftness" property of Wikipedia categories

  • Authors:
  • Karl Gyllstrom;Marie-Francine Moens

  • Affiliations:
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Wikipedia's rich category structure has helped make it one of the largest semantic taxonomies in existence, a property that has been central to much recent research. However, Wikipedia's category representation is simplistic: an article contains a single list of categories, with no data about their relative importance. We investigate the ordering of category lists to determine how a category's position in the list correlates with its relevance to the article and overall significance. We identify a number of interesting connections between a category's position and its persistence within the article, age, popularity, size, and descriptiveness.