Beyond Friendships and Followers : The Wikipedia Social Network

Geiß, Johanna; Spitz, Andreas; Gertz, Michael

Beyond Friendships and Followers : The Wikipedia Social Network

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2015

Authors

Geiß, Johanna

Spitz, Andreas

Gertz, Michael

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ASONAM '15 : Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2015 / Pei, Jian; Silvestri, Fabrizio; Tang, Jie (ed.). - New York, NY : ACM, 2015. - pp. 472-479. - ISBN 978-1-4503-3854-7

Abstract

Most traditional social networks rely on explicitly given relations between users, their friends and followers. In this paper, we go beyond well structured data repositories and create a person-centric network from unstructured text -- the Wikipedia Social Network. To identify persons in Wikipedia, we make use of interwiki links, Wikipedia categories and person related information available in Wikidata. From the co-occurrences of persons on a Wikipedia page we construct a large-scale person-centric network and provide a weighting scheme for the relationship of two persons based on the distances of their mentions within the text. We extract key characteristics of the network such as centrality, clustering coefficient and component sizes for which we find values that are typical for social networks. Using state-of-the-art algorithms for community detection in massive networks, we identify interesting communities and evaluate them against Wikipedia categories. The Wikipedia social network developed this way provides an important source for future social analysis tasks.

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004 Computer Science

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2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, Aug 25, 2015 - Aug 28, 2015, Paris, France

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GEISS, Johanna, Andreas SPITZ, Michael GERTZ, 2015. Beyond Friendships and Followers : The Wikipedia Social Network. 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining. Paris, France, Aug 25, 2015 - Aug 28, 2015. In: PEI, Jian, ed., Fabrizio SILVESTRI, ed., Jie TANG, ed.. ASONAM '15 : Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2015. New York, NY:ACM, pp. 472-479. ISBN 978-1-4503-3854-7. Available under: doi: 10.1145/2808797.2808840

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@inproceedings{Gei2015Beyon-54741,
  year={2015},
  doi={10.1145/2808797.2808840},
  title={Beyond Friendships and Followers : The Wikipedia Social Network},
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  publisher={ACM},
  address={New York, NY},
  booktitle={ASONAM '15 : Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2015},
  pages={472--479},
  editor={Pei, Jian and Silvestri, Fabrizio and Tang, Jie},
  author={Geiß, Johanna and Spitz, Andreas and Gertz, Michael}
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