Title
Probabilistically ranking web article quality based on evolution patterns
Abstract
User-generated content (UGC) is created, updated, and maintained by various web users, and its data quality is a major concern to all users. We observe that each Wikipedia page usually goes through a series of revision stages, gradually approaching a relatively steady quality state and that articles of different quality classes exhibit specific evolution patterns. We propose to assess the quality of a number of web articles using Learning Evolution Patterns (LEP). First, each article's revision history is mapped into a state sequence using the Hidden Markov Model (HMM). Second, evolution patterns are mined for each quality class, and each quality class is characterized by a set of quality corpora. Finally, an article's quality is determined probabilistically by comparing the article with the quality corpora. Our experimental results demonstrate that the LEP approach can capture a web article's quality precisely.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-34179-3_8
T. Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
steady quality state,lep approach,quality class,probabilistically ranking web article,various web user,different quality class,quality corpus,evolution pattern,revision history,web article,data quality
User-generated content,Data mining,Data quality,Information retrieval,State sequence,Ranking,Computer science,Support vector machine,Hidden Markov model
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
6
null
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
22
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jingyu Han1164.67
Kejia Chen217915.82
Dawei Jiang338021.67