Fine Grained Citation Span for References in Wikipedia
By Besnik Fetahu, Katja Markert, Avishek Anand. 2017
9 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Verifiability is one of the core editing principles in Wikipedia, where editors are encouraged to provide citations for the added content. For a Wikipedia article determining what content is covered by a citation or the citation span is not trivial, an important aspect for automated citation finding for uncovered content, or fact assessments. We address the problem of determining the citation span in Wikipedia articles. We approach this problem by classifying which textual fragments in an article are covered or hold true given a citation. We propose a sequence classification approach where for a paragraph and a citation, we determine the citation span at a fine-grained level. We provide a thorough experimental evaluation and compare our approach against baselines adopted from the scientific domain, where we show improvement for all evaluation metrics.
Subfields: Natural Language Processing
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- Sebastian Riedel
- Patrick Lewis
- Fabio Petroni
- Timo Schick
- Edouard Grave
- Jason Aaron Edward Weston
- Gautier Izacard
- Armand Joulin
Citations in the corpus
- Improving Wikipedia verifiability with AI (2022, background): “There are a number of papers that approach citation recommendation for Wikipedia from different angles, such as by recommending citations from linked articles (Jana et al., 2018) to citation span detection (Fetahu et al., 2017) amongst other efforts.”
- Citation Needed: A Taxonomy and Algorithmic Assessment of Wikipedia's Verifiability (2019, background): “Finally, the authors in [15], attempted to determine the citation span—that is, which parts of the paragraph are covered by the citation—for any given existing citation in a Wikipedia article and the corresponding paragraph in which it is cited.”
- A Taxonomy of Knowledge Gaps for Wikimedia Projects (First Draft) (2020, background): “literature [34, 35, 76, 138], community [23, 96, 125, 177, 184, 192]”
- Citation Detective : a Public Dataset to Improve and Quantify Wikipedia Citation Quality at Scale (2020, background): “These efforts include source recommendations for outdated citations [2], and automatic detection of the citation span, namely the portion of a paragraph which is covered by an inline citation [1].”