Summary
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications
2016
Session Number:A2L-C
Session:
Number:A2L-C-2
On Ranking and Mining Universities with the Encyclopedia Wikipedia
Zongjian Li, Cong Li, Xiang Li,
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Publication Date:2016/11/27
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
The large data of Wikipedia has motivated new research branches, such as the evaluation of the reputation of an entry in its field by utilizing the Wikipedia data, where we can dig the relationship of entries via the analysis of Wikipedia data. In this work, we extensively evaluate the university entries in the Wikipedia to rank the universities over the whole world. Several reputation indicators for Wikipedia entries are introduced and compared with the QS and THE university ranking, while the in-degree reputation indicator has a strong correlation with QS and THE ranking. We propose two data mining methods to generate effective Wikipedia article reference subnetworks and we find that the community property of the university article reference subnetworks can reflect the geographic nature of the universities.