{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/fun-facts-automatic-trivia-fact-extraction","title":"Fun Facts: Automatic Trivia Fact Extraction from Wikipedia","arxiv_id":"1612.03896","date":"2016-12-12","proceeding":null,"authors":["Tsurel David","Pelleg Dan","Guy Ido","Shahaf Dafna"],"abstract":"A significant portion of web search queries directly refers to named\nentities. Search engines explore various ways to improve the user experience\nfor such queries. We suggest augmenting search results with {\\em trivia facts}\nabout the searched entity. Trivia is widely played throughout the world, and\nwas shown to increase users' engagement and retention.\n  Most random facts are not suitable for the trivia section. There is skill\n(and art) to curating good trivia. In this paper, we formalize a notion of\n\\emph{trivia-worthiness} and propose an algorithm that automatically mines\ntrivia facts from Wikipedia. We take advantage of Wikipedia's category\nstructure, and rank an entity's categories by their trivia-quality.\n  Our algorithm is capable of finding interesting facts, such as Obama's Grammy\nor Elvis' stint as a tank gunner. In user studies, our algorithm captures the\nintuitive notion of \"good trivia\" 45\\% higher than prior work. Search-page\ntests show a 22\\% decrease in bounce rates and a 12\\% increase in dwell time,\nproving our facts hold users' attention.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03896v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.03896v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"fun-facts-automatic-trivia-fact-extraction","repo_url":"https://github.com/DMTsurel/FunFacts","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1612.03896","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}