Capturing the influence of geopolitical ties from Wikipedia with reduced Google matrix

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Samer El ZantD L Shepelyansky

Abstract

Interactions between countries originate from diverse aspects such as geographic proximity, trade, socio-cultural habits, language, religions, etc. Geopolitics studies the influence of a country's geographic space on its political power and its relationships with other countries. This work reveals the potential of Wikipedia mining for geopolitical study. Actually, Wikipedia offers solid knowledge and strong correlations among countries by linking web pages together for different types of information (e.g. economical, historical, political, and many others). The major finding of this paper is to show that meaningful results on the influence of country ties can be extracted from the hyperlinked structure of Wikipedia. We leverage a novel stochastic matrix representation of Markov chains of complex directed networks called the reduced Google matrix theory. For a selected small size set of nodes, the reduced Google matrix concentrates direct and indirect links of the million-node sized Wikipedia network into a small Perron-Frobenius matrix keeping the PageRank probabilities of the global Wikipedia network. We perform a novel sensitivity analysis that leverages this reduced Google matrix to characterize the influence of relationship...Continue Reading

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Dec 16, 2005·Nature·Jim Giles
Oct 8, 2013·PloS One·Young-Ho Eom, Dima L Shepelyansky

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Sep 20, 2019·PloS One·Guillaume RollinDima L Shepelyansky

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