StRE: Self Attentive Edit Quality Prediction in Wikipedia

Soumya Sarkar, Bhanu Prakash Reddy, Sandipan Sikdar, Animesh Mukherjee


Abstract
Wikipedia can easily be justified as a behemoth, considering the sheer volume of content that is added or removed every minute to its several projects. This creates an immense scope, in the field of natural language processing toward developing automated tools for content moderation and review. In this paper we propose Self Attentive Revision Encoder (StRE) which leverages orthographic similarity of lexical units toward predicting the quality of new edits. In contrast to existing propositions which primarily employ features like page reputation, editor activity or rule based heuristics, we utilize the textual content of the edits which, we believe contains superior signatures of their quality. More specifically, we deploy deep encoders to generate representations of the edits from its text content, which we then leverage to infer quality. We further contribute a novel dataset containing ∼ 21M revisions across 32K Wikipedia pages and demonstrate that StRE outperforms existing methods by a significant margin – at least 17% and at most 103%. Our pre-trained model achieves such result after retraining on a set as small as 20% of the edits in a wikipage. This, to the best of our knowledge, is also the first attempt towards employing deep language models to the enormous domain of automated content moderation and review in Wikipedia.
Anthology ID:
P19-1387
Volume:
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Month:
July
Year:
2019
Address:
Florence, Italy
Editors:
Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
3962–3972
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P19-1387
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1387
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Cite (ACL):
Soumya Sarkar, Bhanu Prakash Reddy, Sandipan Sikdar, and Animesh Mukherjee. 2019. StRE: Self Attentive Edit Quality Prediction in Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 3962–3972, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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StRE: Self Attentive Edit Quality Prediction in Wikipedia (Sarkar et al., ACL 2019)
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https://aclanthology.org/P19-1387.pdf
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 bhanu77prakash/StRE