@inproceedings{67878197b0d44040807ad3696a268f71,
title = "The tower of Babel meets web 2.0: User-generated content and its applications in a multilingual context",
abstract = "This study explores language's fragmenting effect on user-generated content by examining the diversity of knowledge representations across 25 different Wikipedia language editions. This diversity is measured at two levels: the concepts that are included in each edition and the ways in which these concepts are described. We demonstrate that the diversity present is greater than has been presumed in the literature and has a significant influence on applications that use Wikipedia as a source of world knowledge. We close by explicating how knowledge diversity can be beneficially leveraged to create {"}culturally- aware applications{"} and {"}hyperlingual applications{"}.",
keywords = "explicit semantic analysis, hyperlingual, knowledge diversity, language, multilingual, semantic relatedness, wikipedia",
author = "Brent Hecht and Darren Gergle",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1145/1753326.1753370",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781605589299",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
pages = "291--300",
booktitle = "CHI 2010 - The 28th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings",
note = "28th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2010 ; Conference date: 10-04-2010 Through 15-04-2010",
}