On Improving Wikipedia Search using Article Quality

• Main Authors: HU, Meiqun, LIM, Ee Peng, SUN, Aixin, LAUW, Hady Wirawan, VUONG, Ba-Quy
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1264; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2263/viewcontent/improveWikiSearch.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Wikipedia is presently the largest free-and-open online encyclopedia collaboratively edited and maintained by volunteers. While Wikipedia offers full-text search to its users, the accuracy of its relevance-based search can be compromised by poor quality articles edited by non-experts and inexperienc...