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Personalization or What the Internet is hiding from you

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The Economist’s article about the dangers of the internet goes into detail about the so called “filter bubble”, a unique universe of information for each single person, that we can experience everyday on Google, Amazon, Facebook and Co. Our location, interests, previous surf behaviors etc. are taking into account from these sites and we are presented with a personalized result. That sounds good, but is this all we want to have?

Eli Pariser and other critics think this is dangerous and believe that this approach prevents us from seeing and using the full potential of the Internet, not being presented with information that doesn’t fit into our own universe of opinions and interests. Eli Pariser calls this “invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas”. In his book “The filter bubble: what the Internet is hiding from you” he goes into detail how such a filtered Internet can be dangerous and how sites can give users more control over their personal data.


Tool: Corpex – Wikipedia Corpora Explorer

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Developed within the RENDER project by KIT Karlsruhe,  the Wikipedia corpora explorer Corpex let’s you swiftly browse through all the words of Wikipedia. Select your language, and when you start typing, the system shows you two statistics in four graphs:
  1. the ten most frequent words that start with the typed sequence of letters (as a barcharts and a piechart), and
  2. the most frequent letter following the already typed sequence of letters (again, as a barchart and a piechart).
Additionally, the ten most frequent following words of any input word are visualized (as a barcharts and a piechart).
This can be used for many applications where the occurence of words in different language editions of Wikipedia is of use. An API is also provided for easy use of the data.
Corpex is currently available in the following languages: German (de), English (en), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hungarian (hr), Romanian (ro), Albanian (sq), Bulgarian (bg), Czech (cs), Italian (it), Swedish (sv), Serbian (sr), Croatian (hr), Serbo-Croatian (sh), Bosnian (bs), and simple English (simple). It is further available for the Brown Corpus (brown). Further languages are being prepared.
Corpex is still under development. The source code is fully open source, and all the data is also freely available. Feedback, and especially suggestions for cooperation, is welcome.

RENDER in the Press

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RENDER was mentioned in the news of two major German Web sites.

Heise online and taz.de reported about Wikimedia’s plan to build a centralized database that will be shared over all language versions of Wikipedia where the RENDER project is involved.

Read full article on heise online and taz.de

Wikipedia Map Interface

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Check out the Wikipedia Map Interface developed by RENDER! The map is generated out of all geotagged articles in a dozen different language Wikipedias. The dynamic interface allows to zoom into the map and check out the individual articles. The different languages display a strong bias over the different languages.

Find the Wikipedia Map Interface here: http://km.aifb.kit.edu/sites/wikipediamap/

Wikidata – Data Revolution for Wikipedia

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Wikidata will be the first new Wikimedia project since 2006

Wikimedia Deutschland is starting the development of a new Wikimedia project, called Wikidata. Wikidata will provide a collaboratively edited database of the world’s knowledge. Its first goal is to support the more than 280 language editions of Wikipedia with one common source of structured data that can be used in all articles of the free encyclopedia.

For example, with Wikidata the birth date of a person of public interest can be used in all Wikipedias and only needs to be maintained in one place. Moreover, like all of Wikidata’s information, the birth date will also be freely usable outside of Wikipedia. The common-source principle behind Wikidata is expected to lead to a higher consistency and quality within Wikipedia articles, as well as increased availability of information in the smaller language editions. At the same time, Wikidata will decrease the maintenance effort for the tens of thousands of volunteers working on Wikipedia.

Read the full press release here: English | German

RENDER collaborating with other EU projects @ESWC 2012

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The RENDER project was presented during the EU project networking session co-located with the 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2012).

As a result of the networking session, points of potential collaboration were identified and RENDER established contact with a number of EU projects:

  • X-LIKE (Cross-lingual Knowledge Extraction),
  • ENVISION (ENVIronmental Services Infrastructure with ONtologies),
  • LOD2 (Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data),
  • ViSTA-TV (Video Stream Analytics for Viewers in the TV Industry),
  • IKS (Interactive Knowledge Stack).

More information about collaborative EU projects can be found here:

http://www.xlike.org/
http://www.envision-project.eu/
http://lod2.eu
http://www.iks-project.eu/

RENDER research in the Wikipedia Signpost

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RENDER research has made it twice into the “Wikipedia Signpost“:

RENDER Tools and Demos

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RENDER is developing a number of tools that are concerned the reflection and leverage of knowledge diversity in different settings and applications. In the following we will give you a short introduction to this tools. All tools and demos are available at http://render-project.eu/resources/tools-and-demos/.

Knowledge Diversity in Wikipedia

The RENDER Toolkit for Knowledge Diversity in Wikipedia contains a collection of tools to improve diversity in Wikipedia:

TwiDiViz

Analysis and Visualization of diversity in Twitter data

WIKIGINI

Visualizing the inequality of authorship in a Wikipedia article

Interactive Modelling Tool

Interactive diversity analysis based on social media data

Drupal

Module providing a diversity-aware view on posts


RENDER project sponsors ESWC

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The RENDER project is sponsoring this year’s ESWC.

RENDER project participates in ESWC EU Project Networking session

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The RENDER project participates in the ESWC EU Project Networking session.

Wikipedia is adding a Love Button

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Wikipedia is introducing the WikiLove Button. It is already live on the Wikipedia test site and it will be available site-wide on Wednesday June 29th. It appears in the right hand corner of each user’s page, in the form of a little red heart. Users are encouraged to click the button when they come across edits or other on-site activity that deserves commendation.

A click of the button will result in the launch of a Love Interface, in which the user is presented a number of options for what kind of love to send and images to append to a free-text compliment area. The resulting declaration of support is published to the receiving user’s account discussion page and is monitored by top Wikipedia users to prevent misuse.

Talk: “Towards a diversity-minded Wikipedia”

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