Clustering of scientific citations in Wikipedia
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چکیده
The instances of templates in Wikipedia form an interesting data set of structured information. Here I focus on the cite journal template that is primarily used for citation to articles in scientific journals. These citations can be extracted and analyzed: Non-negative matrix factorization is performed on a (article × journal) matrix resulting in a soft clustering of Wikipedia articles and scientific journals, each cluster more or less representing a scientific topic.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/0805.1154 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007