Wikipedia data quality: automatic evaluation of infoboxes in different languages

Infobox provides a summary of the most important information relating to a particular object described in a Wikipedia article. In other words — Wikipedia infobox summarize factoid knowledge.

First place in the competition for doctoral dissertations of the PUEB Foundation

In the jubilee 15th edition of the PUE Foundation competition for the best doctoral dissertations defended at the Poznań University of Economics and Business in the 2018/2019 academic year, the work “The method of comparing and enriching information in multilingual wikis based on the analysis of their quality” took the first place. The PhD thesis ...

PhD thesis on Wikipedia was awarded in the NTIE competition

In the 23rd Edition of the competition of the Scientific Society of Business Informatics (Polish abbr. “NTIE”), people associated with the Department of Information Systems at Poznań University of Economics and Business were awarded for the best diploma theses in the field of information systems.

SEMANTiCS 2019

The international conference SEMANTiCS 2019 took place in Karlsruhe (Germany) from 9th to 13th September and was attended by more than 400 participants. During the conference, a presentation “Reference Extraction from Wikipedia Infoboxes” was delivered.

Quality of Open Data

The goal of QOD workshop is to bring together different communities working on quality of information in Wikipedia, DBpedia, Wikidata and other open knowledge bases. The workshop calls for sharing research experience and knowledge related to quality assessment in open data.

Lecture on the quality of Wikipedia in High School no 1 in Poznań (Marcinek)

On March 14, 2018 during the celebration of the International Pi Day, Włodzimierz Lewoniewski provided lecture about automatic evaluation of information quality in a multilingual Wikipedia for pupils of the High School no 1 in Poznań. During the lecture the history of development, the most important principles and problems of this popular encyclopedia were presented. ...

Automatic assessment of Wikipedia quality in different languages

This article presents an overview of scientific works related to quality assessment of Wikipedia in different languages. Despite the fact that Wikipedia is often criticized for its poor quality, it still is one of the most popular knowledge bases in the world. Currently, this online encyclopedia is on the 5th place in the ranking of ...

Wikipedia, Dbpedia and the Polish Art Market: Data Enrichment and Analysis of Concepts’ Frequency in The Descriptions of Paintings and Authors

Wikilinks are internal hyperlinks on Wikipedia, a popular Internet encyclopaedia. A unique article identifier is hidden behind so-called surface form, which is a grammatical match of a given term accordingly to the context in which it occurs. Therefore, a given term can have multiple surface forms.

Relative Quality and Popularity Evaluation of Multilingual Wikipedia Articles

In the special issue “Quality Management in Big Data” of the Informatics journal, paper about relative quality and popularity assessment of over 28 million Wikipedia articles in 44 different language versions was published. The article is published on an open access basis.

Best Paper Award

The article “Analysis of References Across Wikipedia Languages” received the Best Paper Award at ICIST 2017 Conference (The 23rd International Conference on Information and Software Technologies).
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