Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia: a Bag-of-Words Classifier Approach

2010/01/05 by Amit Belani, Belani, Amit
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Biochemical and Structural Characterization #Software Engineering Research #Wikis in Education and Collaboration #cs.CY #cs.IR #cs.LG

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1001.0700

15 pages, 5 figures

arxiv created 2010/01/05 · arxiv updated 2010/01/14

Abstract

A bag-of-words based probabilistic classifier is trained using regularized logistic regression to detect vandalism in the English Wikipedia. Isotonic regression is used to calibrate the class membership probabilities. Learning curve, reliability, ROC, and cost analysis are performed.

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