Title
Highlighting Entanglement Of Cultures Via Ranking Of Multilingual Wikipedia Articles
Abstract
How different cultures evaluate a person? Is an important person in one culture is also important in the other culture? We address these questions via ranking of multilingual Wikipedia articles. With three ranking algorithms based on network structure of Wikipedia, we assign ranking to all articles in 9 multilingual editions of Wikipedia and investigate general ranking structure of PageRank, CheiRank and 2DRank. In particular, we focus on articles related to persons, identify top 30 persons for each rank among different editions and analyze distinctions of their distributions over activity fields such as politics, art, science, religion, sport for each edition. We find that local heroes are dominant but also global heroes exist and create an effective network representing entanglement of cultures. The Google matrix analysis of network of cultures shows signs of the Zipf law distribution. This approach allows to examine diversity and shared characteristics of knowledge organization between cultures. The developed computational, data driven approach highlights cultural interconnections in a new perspective. Dated: June 26, 2013
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1371/journal.pone.0074554
PLOS ONE
Keywords
Field
DocType
search engine,cultural diversity,culture,internet,algorithms
Zipf's law,Learning to rank,PageRank,Ranking,Information retrieval,CheiRank,Cultural diversity,Bioinformatics,Knowledge organization,Google matrix,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
10
1932-6203
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.58
19
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Young-Ho Eom125320.42
Dima Shepelyansky211113.71