Ranking Entities Using Web Search Query Logs

Abstract Searching for entities is an emerging task in Information Retrieval for which the goal is finding well defined entities instead of documents matching the query terms. In this paper we propose a novel approach to Entity Retrieval by using Web search engine query logs. We use Markov random walks on (1) Click Graphs

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: ERCIMDL
• Authors: Bodo Billerbeck, Gianluca Demartini, Claudiu S. Firan, Tereza Iofciu, Ralf Krestel
• Keywords: Education, Engine Query Logs, Entity Retrieval, ERCIMDL 2010, Query Terms