Guwahati, Feb. 20 -- Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Researchers have developed a multilingual and scalable method to identify and correct Surface Name Errors (SNEs) in Wikipedia, thus helping improve information reliability for both human users and artificial intelligence systems.

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In a press statement, IIT Guwahati stated that a surface name refers to the text used in Wikipedia articles to mention or link to another entity.

"A Surface Name Error (SNE) occurs when this text is incorrect. For example, using a misspelt word like "Parise" to link to the page for Paris. A study conducted by t...