Haaretz picks up on a very relevant doctoral thesis to be presented at a Tel-Aviv U. gathering next week.
Eti Yaari of the Information Science department at Bar-Ilan University wrote her doctoral thesis on the possibility of automatically evaluating the veracity of Wikipedia entries, in order to provide an efficient scale for surfers to judge the quality of an entry . . . .
Now Yaari, in conjunction with Prof. Yehudit Bar-Ilan and Baruchson-Arbib, is trying to build a practical application that will automatically evaluate Wikipedia entries based on the quality criteria identified by her study.
Given the problems with Wiki we recently highlighted, Yaari’s research may well be a step in the right direction. Read the whole article.
