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Mining cross-cultural relations from Wikipedia: A study of 31 European food cultures
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Abstract For many people, Wikipedia represents one of the primary sources of knowledge about foreign cultures. Yet, different Wikipedia language editions offer different descriptions of cultural practices. Unveiling diverging representations of cultures provides an important insight, since they may foster th... view more
For many people, Wikipedia represents one of the primary sources of knowledge about foreign cultures. Yet, different Wikipedia language editions offer different descriptions of cultural practices. Unveiling diverging representations of cultures provides an important insight, since they may foster the formation of cross-cultural stereotypes, misunderstandings and potentially even conflict. In this work, we explore to what extent the descriptions of cultural practices in various European language editions of Wikipedia differ on the example of culinary practices and propose an approach to mine cultural relations between different language communities trough their description of and interest in their own and other communities' food culture. We assess the validity of the extracted relations using 1) various external reference data sources (i.e., the European Social Survey, migration statistics), 2) crowdsourcing methods and 3) simulations.... view less
Keywords
cultural difference; Internet; eating behavior; intercultural comparison; cultural relations; simulation; food; Bourdieu, P.; stereotype; European Social Survey; validity; intercultural factors
Classification
Natural Science and Engineering, Applied Sciences
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Free Keywords
Wikipedia; Lexikon; Cross-Cultural Relation Mining; CCRM
Collection Title
Proceedings of the 7th ACM Web Science Conference 2015
Conference
7. ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci '15). Oxford, 2015
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Publisher
ACM
City
New York
Page/Pages
p. 1-10
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1145/2786451.2786452
ISBN
978-1-4503-3672-7
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications