The following paper will be presented next week at the COINS13 Conference in Santiago Chile.
Title
Wikipulse-A News Portal Based on Wikipedia
Authors
Tobias Futterer
University of Bamberg, Germany
Karsten Packmohr
University of Bamberg, Germany
Stefan Schultheiss
University of Bamberg, Germany
Tushah Malhotra
Aalto University, Finland
Harrison Mfula
Aalto University, Finland
Peter A. Gloor
MIT
Source
Conference Proceedings (via arXiv.org)
Abstract
More and more user-generated content is complementing conventional journalism. While we don’t think that CNN or New York Times and its professional journalists will disappear anytime soon, formidable competition is emerging through humble Wikipedia editors.
In earlier work (Becker 2012), we found that entertainment and sports news appeared on average about two hours earlier on Wikipedia than on CNN and Reuters online. In this project we build a news-reader that automatically identifies late breaking news among the most recent Wikipedia articles and then displays it on a dedicated Web site.
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