{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Did You Know? - Mining Interesting Trivia for Entities from Wikipedia","authors":[{"name":"Abhay Prakash","slug":"abhay-prakash","given":"Abhay","family":"Prakash","affiliation":""},{"name":"Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla","slug":"manoj-kumar-chinnakotla","given":"Manoj Kumar","family":"Chinnakotla","affiliation":""},{"name":"Dhaval Patel","slug":"dhaval-patel","given":"Dhaval","family":"Patel","affiliation":""},{"name":"Puneet Garg","slug":"puneet-garg","given":"Puneet","family":"Garg","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Trivia is any fact about an entity which is interesting due to its unusualness, uniqueness, unexpectedness or weirdness. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for mining entity trivia from their Wikipedia pages. Given an entity, our system extracts relevant sentences from its Wikipedia page and produces a list of sentences ranked based on their interestingness as trivia. At the heart of our system lies an interestingness ranker which learns the notion of interestingness, through a rich set of domain-independent linguistic and entity based features. Our ranking model is trained by leveraging existing user-generated trivia data available on the Web instead of creating new labeled data. We evaluated our system on movies domain and observed that the system performs significantly better than the defined baselines. A thorough qualitative analysis of the results revealed that our rich set of features indeed help in surfacing interesting trivia in the top ranks.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/446","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/0446.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/446.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/bibtex/446","volume":{"slug":"2015","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2015","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/","year":2015,"location":"Buenos Aires, Argentina","dates":"25–31 July 2015","editors":"Qiang Yang and Michael Wooldridge","isbn":"978-1-57735-738-4","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Special Track on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning","track":"Special Track on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning","number":446,"pages":{"first":3164,"last":3169},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}