See Also: Auto Generated RecommendationsMislav CimperšakMarija TkalecSiniša Jovčić

Faculty of Humanities and Social SciencesIvana Lučića 3, Zagreb, Croatia

INFuture 2009: Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing

Introduction

•reliable source of information •accessible to everyone around the world•most up-to-date online encyclopedia

•disadvantages

See Also

•list of similar or related articles to current article

•urges users to continue browsing and reading articles on the page itself

•user created list

Thesis

•users on similar topics create connections to the same articles

•by comparing two articles connections we could conclude how similar these two articles are

Goal

•creation of an automatic recommendation system for the “See also” section based on soft clustering of documents

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Research

•5,012 articles•509 clusters•evaluation

▫compared against human created connections

Research

•tokens as vector features•document similarity threshold 0.5•connections within Wikipedia treated as

separate tokens with extra weight when comparing the articles

Research

•clusters in three categories▫clusters with no real value▫partially relevant clusters▫well-formed clusters

Clusters with no real value

•generated clusters not usable•subjects in completely different theme

areas•clusters which contain too many articles

▫St. Peter, Saint-John Perse, General Staff of Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia, French Guiana, Marine mammals

▫Eurasian Avars, Psychology, birds

Partially relevant clusters

•some articles within this kind of clusters thematically related

•remaining articles are not bound with the same subject or they don’t involve the same or similar area

▫Croatian Football Team, Parliamentray elections, Orthography, Presidential Elections, Croatian Academy of Science and Arts

Well-formed clusters

•articles connected to the same subject

▫Olympic Games in Tokyo, London, Barcelona, Atlanta, Athena, Beijing, Summer Olympic Games

▫football teams▫Airbus airplanes

Observations

•Wikipedia users more often create connections on more general and more obvious terms

Conclusion

•the procedure cannot be regarded as being successful enough for an unsupervised implementation on articles in Croatian Wikipedia

•most likely the algorithm would be more successful in a strictly supervised encyclopedia