---
_id: '10284'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: We study text reuse related to Wikipedia at scale by compiling the first corpus
of text reuse cases within Wikipedia as well as without (i.e., reuse of Wikipedia
text in a sample of the Common Crawl). To discover reuse beyond verbatim copy
and paste, we employ state-of-the-art text reuse detection technology, scaling
it for the first time to process the entire Wikipedia as part of a distributed
retrieval pipeline. We further report on a pilot analysis of the 100 million reuse
cases inside, and the 1.6 million reuse cases outside Wikipedia that we discovered.
Text reuse inside Wikipedia gives rise to new tasks such as article template induction,
fixing quality flaws, or complementing Wikipedia's ontology. Text reuse outside
Wikipedia yields a tangible metric for the emerging field of quantifying Wikipedia's
influence on the web. To foster future research into these tasks, and for reproducibility's
sake, the Wikipedia text reuse corpus and the retrieval pipeline are made freely
available.
author:
- first_name: Milad
full_name: Alshomary, Milad
id: '73059'
last_name: Alshomary
- first_name: Michael
full_name: Völske, Michael
last_name: Völske
- first_name: Tristan
full_name: Licht, Tristan
last_name: Licht
- first_name: Henning
full_name: Wachsmuth, Henning
id: '3900'
last_name: Wachsmuth
- first_name: Benno
full_name: Stein, Benno
last_name: Stein
- first_name: Matthias
full_name: Hagen, Matthias
last_name: Hagen
- first_name: Martin
full_name: Potthast, Martin
last_name: Potthast
citation:
ama: 'Alshomary M, Völske M, Licht T, et al. Wikipedia Text Reuse: Within and Without.
In: Azzopardi L, Stein B, Fuhr N, Mayr P, Hauff C, Hiemstra D, eds. Advances
in Information Retrieval. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2019:747-754.'
apa: 'Alshomary, M., Völske, M., Licht, T., Wachsmuth, H., Stein, B., Hagen, M.,
& Potthast, M. (2019). Wikipedia Text Reuse: Within and Without. In L. Azzopardi,
B. Stein, N. Fuhr, P. Mayr, C. Hauff, & D. Hiemstra (Eds.), Advances in
Information Retrieval (pp. 747–754). Cham: Springer International Publishing.'
bibtex: '@inproceedings{Alshomary_Völske_Licht_Wachsmuth_Stein_Hagen_Potthast_2019,
place={Cham}, title={Wikipedia Text Reuse: Within and Without}, booktitle={Advances
in Information Retrieval}, publisher={Springer International Publishing}, author={Alshomary,
Milad and Völske, Michael and Licht, Tristan and Wachsmuth, Henning and Stein,
Benno and Hagen, Matthias and Potthast, Martin}, editor={Azzopardi, Leif and Stein,
Benno and Fuhr, Norbert and Mayr, Philipp and Hauff, Claudia and Hiemstra, DjoerdEditors},
year={2019}, pages={747–754} }'
chicago: 'Alshomary, Milad, Michael Völske, Tristan Licht, Henning Wachsmuth, Benno
Stein, Matthias Hagen, and Martin Potthast. “Wikipedia Text Reuse: Within and
Without.” In Advances in Information Retrieval, edited by Leif Azzopardi,
Benno Stein, Norbert Fuhr, Philipp Mayr, Claudia Hauff, and Djoerd Hiemstra, 747–54.
Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.'
ieee: 'M. Alshomary et al., “Wikipedia Text Reuse: Within and Without,” in
Advances in Information Retrieval, 2019, pp. 747–754.'
mla: 'Alshomary, Milad, et al. “Wikipedia Text Reuse: Within and Without.” Advances
in Information Retrieval, edited by Leif Azzopardi et al., Springer International
Publishing, 2019, pp. 747–54.'
short: 'M. Alshomary, M. Völske, T. Licht, H. Wachsmuth, B. Stein, M. Hagen, M.
Potthast, in: L. Azzopardi, B. Stein, N. Fuhr, P. Mayr, C. Hauff, D. Hiemstra
(Eds.), Advances in Information Retrieval, Springer International Publishing,
Cham, 2019, pp. 747–754.'
date_created: 2019-06-21T08:59:32Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T06:50:34Z
department:
- _id: '600'
editor:
- first_name: Leif
full_name: Azzopardi, Leif
last_name: Azzopardi
- first_name: Benno
full_name: Stein, Benno
last_name: Stein
- first_name: Norbert
full_name: Fuhr, Norbert
last_name: Fuhr
- first_name: Philipp
full_name: Mayr, Philipp
last_name: Mayr
- first_name: Claudia
full_name: Hauff, Claudia
last_name: Hauff
- first_name: Djoerd
full_name: Hiemstra, Djoerd
last_name: Hiemstra
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- url: https://webis.de/downloads/publications/papers/stein_2019c.pdf
page: 747-754
place: Cham
publication: Advances in Information Retrieval
publication_identifier:
isbn:
- 978-3-030-15712-8
publisher: Springer International Publishing
status: public
title: 'Wikipedia Text Reuse: Within and Without'
type: conference
user_id: '82920'
year: '2019'
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