Chapter 4
Investigating reply relations on Wikipedia talk pages to reconstruct interactional strategies of Wikipedia authors
This chapter presents the annotation and analysis of
interpretative reply
relations on Wikipedia talk pages using data from the WikiDemoCorpus (WDC). Building on an approach of annotating interpretative
reply
relations to analyze these relations in Wikipedia talk page
posts, the chapter presents nine reply relation categories found in the
German WDC. Additionally, linguistic cues for each category and the
Wikipedia discussion pages overall are explained in detail, illustrated
through reply relation targets. The results of the linguistic annotation are
threefold: First, we provide an annotation scheme that can be used by third
parties to produce more data according to their needs. Second, we shed light
on and quantify the numerous ways Wikipedia authors reply to each other’s
posts on talk pages. Finally, we provide richly annotated data that can be
used for further analyses, such as identifying interactional relations on
higher levels or training tasks in machine learning algorithms.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Background and motivation
- 2.1Wikipedia talk
pages: Structure of posts
- 2.2Interpretative reply relations
- 3.Linguistic annotation
- 3.1Research questions
- 3.2Data: WikiDemoCorpus
- 3.3Methodology: Annotation process and guidelines
- 4.Results
- 5.Discussion and conclusion
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Notes
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References
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