Analysis of community structure in Wikipedia

We present the results of a community detection analysis of the Wikipedia graph. Distinct communities in Wikipedia contain semantically closely related articles. The central topic of a community can be identified using PageRank. Extracted communities can be organized hierarchically similar to manually created Wikipedia category structure. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2.4 [Knowledge Representation]: Semantic Networks; H.3.3 [Information Search and Retrieval]: Clustering General Terms Experimentation Keywords Graph analysis, community detection, Wikipedia

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Dmitry Lizorkin, Olena Medelyan, Maria P. Grineva
• Keywords: Community Detection Analysis, Internet Technology, Wikipedia Category Structure, Wikipedia Graph, WWW 2009