Term frequency dynamics in collaborative articles

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2010

Authors

Sérgio Nunes (Author) FEUP; Cristina Ribeiro (Author) FEUP; Gabriel David (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: DOCENG2010: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2010 ACM SYMPOSIUM ON DOCUMENT ENGINEERING

Pages: 267-270

10th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

Manchester, ENGLAND, SEP 21-24, 2010

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

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Authenticus ID: P-003-AKN

DOI: 10.1145/1860559.1860620

Abstract (EN): Documents on the World Wide Web are dynamic entities. Mainstream information retrieval systems and techniques are primarily focused on the latest version a document, generally ignoring its evolution over time. In this work, we study the term frequency dynamics in web documents over their lifespan. We use the Wikipedia as a document collection because it is a broad and public resource and, more important, because it provides access to the complete revision history of each document. We investigate the progression of similarity values over two projection variables, namely revision order and revision date. Based on this investigation we find that term frequency in encyclopedic documents - i.e. comprehensive and focused on a single topic - exhibits a rapid and steady progression towards the document's current version. The content in early versions quickly becomes very similar to the present version of the document.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 4