Brent Hecht
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| Co-authors | Darren Gergle, Mahmood Quaderi, Martin Rauba, Michael Horn, Patti Bao, Samuel Carton |
| Website | http://www.brenthecht.com |
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Publications
Only those publications related to wikis are shown here.| Title | Keyword(s) | Published in | Language | DateThis property is a special property in this wiki. | Abstract | R | C |
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| Omnipedia: Bridging the Wikipedia Language Gap | Wikipedia Multilingual Hyperlingual Language barrier User generated content Text mining |
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | English | 2012 | We present Omnipedia, a system that allows Wikipedia readers to gain insight from up to 25 language editions ofWikipedia simultaneously. Omnipedia highlights the similarities and differences that exist among Wikipedia language editions, and makes salient information that is unique to each language as well as that which is shared more widely. We detail solutions to numerous front-end and algorithmic challenges inherent to providing users with a multilingual Wikipedia experience. These include visualizing content in a language-neutral way and aligning data in the face of diverse information organization strategies. We present a study of Omnipedia that characterizes how people interact with information using a multilingual lens. We found that users actively sought information exclusive to unfamiliar language editions and strategically compared how language editions defined concepts. Finally, we briefly discuss how Omnipedia generalizes to other domains facing language barriers. | 0 | 0 |
| The Tower of Babel Meets Web 2.0: User-Generated Content and Its Applications in a Multilingual Context | International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | English | 2010 | This study explores language's fragmenting effect on user-generated content by examining the diversity of knowledge representations across 25 different Wikipedia language editions. This diversity is measured at two levels: the concepts that are included in each edition and the ways in which these concepts are described. We demonstrate that the diversity present is greater than has been presumed in the literature and has a significant influence on applications that use Wikipedia as a source of world knowledge. We close by explicating how knowledge diversity can be beneficially leveraged to create "culturally-aware applications" and "hyperlingual applications". | 0 | 1 | |
| Measuring Self-Focus Bias in Community-Maintained Knowledge Repositories | International Conference on Communities and Technologies | English | 2009 | Self-focus is a novel way of understanding a type of bias in community-maintained Web 2.0 graph structures. It goes beyond previous measures of topical coverage bias by encapsulating both node- and edge-hosted biases in a single holistic measure of an entire community-maintained graph. We outline two methods to quantify self-focus, one of which is very computationally inexpensive, and present empirical evidence for the existence of self-focus using a "hyperlingual" approach that examines 15 different language editions of Wikipedia. We suggest applications of our methods and discuss the risks of ignoring self-focus bias in technological applications. | 0 | 0 | |
| Geographically Explore Semantic Relations in World Knowledge | English | 2008 | 0 | 0 |
