Capocci, Andrea and Rao, Francesco and Caldarelli, Guido Taxonomy and clustering in collaborative systems: the case of the on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia. EPL (Europhysics Letters), 81 (2). p. 28006. ISSN 0295-5075 (2008)
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In this paper we investigate the nature and structure of the relation between imposed classifications and real clustering in a particular case of a scale-free network given by the on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia. We find a statistical similarity in the distributions of community sizes both by using the top-down approach of the categories division present in the archive and in the bottom-up procedure of community detection given by an algorithm based on the spectral properties of the graph. Regardless of the statistically similar behaviour, the two methods provide a rather different division of the articles, thereby signaling that the nature and presence of power laws is a general feature for these systems and cannot be used as a benchmark to evaluate the suitability of a clustering method.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/81/28006 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | PACS: 89.75.Hc Networks and genealogical trees; 89.75.Fb Structures and organization in complex systems; 89.75.-k Complex systems |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HA Statistics Q Science > QC Physics |
| Research Area: | Economics and Institutional Change |
| Depositing User: | Ms T. Iannizzi |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Feb 2012 11:47 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Feb 2012 11:47 |
| URI: | http://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/1097 |
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