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Early Prediction of Movie Box Office Success based on Wikipedia Activity Big Data
Márton Mestyán, Taha Yasseri, János Kertész
Use of socially generated "big data" to access information about collective states of the minds in human societies has become a new paradigm in the emerging field of computational…
Value production in a collaborative environment
Taha Yasseri, János Kertész
We review some recent endeavors and add some new results to characterize and understand underlying mechanisms in Wikipedia (WP), the paradigmatic example of collaborative value pro…
Opinions, Conflicts and Consensus: Modeling Social Dynamics in a Collaborative Environment
János Török, Gerardo Iñiguez, Taha Yasseri +3
Information-communication technology promotes collaborative environments like Wikipedia where, however, controversiality and conflicts can appear. To describe the rise, persistence…
A practical approach to language complexity: a Wikipedia case study
Taha Yasseri, András Kornai, János Kertész
In this paper we present statistical analysis of English texts from Wikipedia. We try to address the issue of language complexity empirically by comparing the simple English Wikipe…
Dynamics of conflicts in Wikipedia
Taha Yasseri, Robert Sumi, András Rung +2
In this work we study the dynamical features of editorial wars in Wikipedia (WP). Based on our previously established algorithm, we build up samples of controversial and peaceful a…