Wikipedia in the age of Siri: task-based evaluation of Google, Wikipedia, and Wolfram Alpha

  • Authors:
  • Hogyeong Jeong

  • Affiliations:
  • Wisenut Research Lab, Seoul, Korea

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe a task-based method to evaluate relative effectiveness of Wikipedia. We then use this method to compare Wikipedia against an internet search engine (Google) and an answer engine that uses structured data (Wolfram Alpha).