Wikispeedia: An Online Game for Inferring Semantic Distances between Concepts
Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pages 1598-1602.
Abstract
Computing the semantic distance between real-world concepts is crucial for many intelligent applications. We present a novel method that leverages data from `Wikispeedia', an online game played on Wikipedia; players have to reach an article from another, unrelated article, only by clicking links in the articles encountered. In order to automatically infer semantic distances between everyday concepts, our method effectively extracts the common sense displayed by humans during play, and is thus more desirable, from a cognitive point of view, than purely corpus-based methods. We show that our method significantly outperforms Latent Semantic Analysis in a psychometric evaluation of the quality of learned semantic distances.Robert West, Joelle Pineau, Doina Precup
@inproceedings{ijcai2009p267,
title = {Wikispeedia: An Online Game for Inferring Semantic Distances between Concepts},
author = {West, Robert and Pineau, Joelle and Precup, Doina},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-09}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {Hiroaki Kitano},
pages = {1598--1602},
year = {2009},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2009/267},
}
TY - CPAPER TI - Wikispeedia: An Online Game for Inferring Semantic Distances between Concepts AU - West, Robert AU - Pineau, Joelle AU - Precup, Doina T2 - Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-09 PB - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence PY - 2009 SP - 1598 EP - 1602 UR - https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2009/267 ER -Copied
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