Title
Did you know?: mining interesting trivia for entities from wikipedia
Abstract
Trivia is any fact about an entity which is interesting due to its unusualness, uniqueness, unexpectedness or weirdness. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for mining entity trivia from their Wikipedia pages. Given an entity, our system extracts relevant sentences from its Wikipedia page and produces a list of sentences ranked based on their interestingness as trivia. At the heart of our system lies an interestingness ranker which learns the notion of interestingness, through a rich set of domain-independent linguistic and entity based features. Our ranking model is trained by leveraging existing user-generated trivia data available on the Web instead of creating new labeled data. We evaluated our system on movies domain and observed that the system performs significantly better than the defined baselines. A thorough qualitative analysis of the results revealed that our rich set of features indeed help in surfacing interesting trivia in the top ranks.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
IJCAI'15 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Data mining,World Wide Web,Spark (mathematics),Ranking,Information retrieval,Computer science,User engagement,Publicity,Labeled data
DocType
Volume
ISBN
Journal
abs/1510.03025
978-1-57735-738-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
13
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Abhay Prakash192.03
Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla29111.38
Dhaval Patel310818.56
Puneet Garg400.34