2018

Structuring Wikipedia Articles with Section Recommendations

Piccardi, Tiziano, Catasta, Michele, Zia, Leila et al.

Understand

Sections are the building blocks of Wikipedia articles.

  • They enhance readability and can be used as a structured entry point for creating and expanding articles.
  • Structuring a new or already existing Wikipedia article with sections is a hard task for humans, especially for newcomers or less experienced editors, as it requires significant knowledge about how a well-written article looks for each possible topic.
  • Inspired by this need, the present paper defines the problem of section recommendation for Wikipedia articles and proposes several approaches for tackling it.

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