Conference Paper: “Wikipulse-A News Portal Based on Wikipedia”
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.
Direct to Full Text Paper (7 pages; PDF)
Filed under: Conference Presentations, Journal Articles, News
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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