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.

本研究通过比较维基百科的不同语言版本，探索了欧洲人对不同文化的烹饪习惯描述的差异，并提出了一种通过对语言社区的食品文化的描述和兴趣来挖掘不同语言社区间文化关系的方法。我们通过多种外部数据源（即欧洲社会调查、移民统计）、众包方法和模拟来评估所提取关系的有效性。