A Utility for Estimating the Relative Contributions of Wiki Authors

Ofer Arazy; Eleni Stroulia

doi:10.1609/icwsm.v3i1.13962

A Utility for Estimating the Relative Contributions of Wiki Authors

Ofer Arazy
, Eleni Stroulia

Department of Information Systems

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Abstract

Wikis were originally designed to hide the association between a wiki page and the authors who have produced it. However, there is evidence suggesting that corporate wiki users require an attribution mechanism that would automatically record (and present) the relative contribution of each author. In this paper we introduce an algorithm for assessing the contributions of wiki authors that is based on the notion of sentence ownership. The results of an empirical evaluation comparing the algorithm’s output to manual evaluations reveal the type of contributions captured by our algorithm. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’09)
Publisher	AAAI Press
Pages	171-174
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781577354215
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v3i1.13962
State	Published - 20 May 2009
Event	3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2009 - San Jose, United States Duration: 17 May 2009 → 20 May 2009

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Name	Proceedings of the 3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2009

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Conference	3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2009
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Jose
Period	17/05/09 → 20/05/09

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Copyright © 2009, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.

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Computer Networks and Communications
Software

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Arazy, O & Stroulia, E 2009, A Utility for Estimating the Relative Contributions of Wiki Authors. in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’09). Proceedings of the 3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2009, AAAI Press, pp. 171-174, 3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2009, San Jose, United States, 17/05/09. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v3i1.13962

A Utility for Estimating the Relative Contributions of Wiki Authors. / Arazy, Ofer; Stroulia, Eleni.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’09). AAAI Press, 2009. p. 171-174 (Proceedings of the 3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2009).

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