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SUMMARY:Semantic and Network Structures of Wikipedia across Language\, Cul
 ture\, and Time
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DESCRIPTION:Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan\nEDIC candidacy exam\nExam president
 : Prof. Antoine Bosselut\nThesis advisor: Prof. Robert West\nCo-examiner: 
 Prof. Jérôme Baudry\n\nAbstract\nikipedia is the worlds largest online e
 ncyclopedia\nand is used by billions of people a year. Studying its patter
 ns of\naccess and editing can inform us with novel insights into human\nkn
 owledge seeking behaviour and online knowledge construction\,\nand the sup
 ply and demand of online knowledge repositories.\nAs an online encyclopedi
 a\, Wikipedia is often characterised by\nits network structure\, as well a
 s its semantic content. Further\nunderstanding this network and semantic s
 tructure\, as well as its\nrelationship to knowledge gaps and collective k
 nowledge seeking\nbehaviour can help make Wikipedia a better tool for its 
 many\nusers. As different cultures and languages use Wikipedia differently
 \,\nat different times and events\, I aim to structure my research\nacross
  these dimensions. In this report\, I detail approaches\nto study network 
 and semantic structure using measurements\nconstructed using neural networ
 k inspired embeddings\, as well\nas measurements based on network structur
 e and Wikipedia\nusage. I review three research articles\, each relating t
 o either of\nculture\, language\, temporal analysis\, and\n\nBackground pa
 pers\n1) Kozlowski\, Austin C.\, Matt Taddy\, and James A. Evans. "The ge
 ometry of culture: Analyzing the meanings of class through word embeddings
 ." American Sociological Review 84.5 (2019): 905-949. \n\n2) Hamilton\, 
 William L.\, Jure Leskovec\, and Dan Jurafsky. "Diachronic Word Embeddings
  Reveal Statistical Laws of Semantic Change." Proceedings of the 54th Annu
 al Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Lon
 g Papers). 2016.\n\n3) Laufer\, Paul\, Claudia Wagner\, Fabian Flöck\, a
 nd Markus Strohmaier. "Mining cross-cultural relations from Wikipedia: a s
 tudy of 31 European food cultures." In Proceedings of the ACM Web Science 
 Conference\, pp. 1-10. 2015.\n 
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