creators_name: Lizorkin, Dmitry
creators_name: Medelyan, Olena
creators_name: Grineva, Maria
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2009-04-06 19:14:31
lastmod: 2009-04-07 14:03:13
metadata_visibility: show
title: Analysis of Community Structure in Wikipedia
ispublished: pub
full_text_status: public
pres_type: poster
abstract: We present the results of a community detection analysis of the Wikipedia graph. Distinct communities in Wikipedia contain semantically closely related articles. The central topic of a community can be identified using PageRank. Extracted communities can be organized hierarchically similar to manually created Wikipedia category structure.
date: 2009-04
pagerange: 1221-1221
event_title: 18th International World Wide Web Conference
event_location: Madrid, Spain
event_dates: April 20th-24th, 2009
event_type: conference
refereed: TRUE
citation: Lizorkin, Dmitry <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Lizorkin=3ADmitry=3A=3A.html> and Medelyan, Olena <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Medelyan=3AOlena=3A=3A.html> and Grineva, Maria <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Grineva=3AMaria=3A=3A.html> (2009) Analysis of Community Structure in Wikipedia. In: 18th International World Wide Web Conference, April 20th-24th, 2009, Madrid, Spain.
document_url: http://www2009.eprints.org/191/1/p1221.pdf