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Record W2096301285 · doi:10.1002/meet.2008.1450450320

Using Wikipedia to make academic abstracts more readable

2008· article· en· W2096301285 on OpenAlexaff
Chris Jordan, Carolyn Watters, Elaine G. Toms

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicWikis in Education and Collaboration
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsReading (process)Computer scienceTask (project management)World Wide WebInformation retrievalGRASPInformation seekingInformation needsOrder (exchange)Search engine

Abstract

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Reading is a primary means for people to get information.To read and understand a document, however, often requires readers to have a certain level of background knowledge.For example, people reading academic papers published by ASIST will more than likely need to have a background in digital libraries, information retrieval, and human computer interaction in order to completely understand them.It is common though for people to have incomplete background knowledge.In those cases, readers may often encounter text passages that they do not understand or would like to have additional information on in order to better grasp the document.These situations represent a specific information need where users require explanatory information to help them understand the document that they are reading.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Reporting · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.999
Threshold uncertainty score0.049

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0060.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0040.009
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0150.010

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.035
GPT teacher head0.352
Teacher spread0.317 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designObservational
DomainReporting
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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