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Taxonomy and clustering in collaborative systems: the case of the on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia

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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Abstract

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: 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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