Title: Wikipedia enrichment via news sources



Wikipedia has become the most used Internet encyclopedia and, indeed,
one of the most popular websites overall. In addition, due to
Wikipedia's inclusion into widely used applications such as Google
KnowledgeGraph or Apple's Siri system, its content will influence the
knowledge and, potentially, the behavior of millions of users, even if
they do not visit the Wikipedia site directly. Therefore, it is
essential that its content is both up-to-date and reliable.  One of
the ways manual editing seeks to ensure both these properties is extensive
referencing of (authoritative) news sources. 

This talk will present work-in-progress about partially automating the
inclusion of news into Wikipedia. I will present the results of two
preliminary studies. The first one looks at suggesting novel news
articles for a given entity page in Wikipedia, relying on the salience
as well as relative authority of entities in the article. The second
one investigates automatic citation provision for fine-grained Wikipedia
statements, to ensure their verifiability. We posit three
properties such a citation  should have: (i) the citation should
entail the Wikipedia statement, (ii) the statement should be central
to the citation, and (iii) the citation should be from an
authoritative source.