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arxiv: 1204.3375 · v1 · pith:4GYSOM4Jnew · submitted 2012-04-16 · 💻 cs.SI

Galaxysearch - Discovering the Knowledge of Many by Using Wikipedia as a Meta-Searchindex

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keywords wikipediapagessearchgalaxysearchnetworkresultschangesgenerated
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We propose a dynamic map of knowledge generated from Wikipedia pages and the Web URLs contained therein. GalaxySearch provides answers to the questions we don't know how to ask, by constructing a semantic network of the most relevant pages in Wikipedia related to a search term. This search graph is constructed based on the Wikipedia bidirectional link structure, the most recent edits on the pages, the importance of the page, and the article quality; search results are then ranked by the centrality of their network position. GalaxySearch provides the results in three related ways: (1) WikiSearch - identifying the most prominent Wikipedia pages and Weblinks for a chosen topic, (2) WikiMap - creating a visual temporal map of the changes in the semantic network generated by the search results over the lifetime of the returned Wikipedia articles, and (3) WikiPulse - finding the most recent and most relevant changes and updates about a topic.

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