Shine: search heterogeneous interrelated entities

Heterogeneous entities or objects are very common and are usually interrelated with each other in many scenarios. For example, typical Web search activities involve multiple types of interrelated entities such as end users, Web pages, and search queries. In this paper, we define and study a novel problem: Search Heterogeneous INterrelated Entities (SHINE). Given a SHINE-query which can be any type(s) of entities, the task of SHINE is to retrieve multiple types of related entities to answer this query. This is in contrast to the traditional search, which only deals with a single type of entities (e.g., Web pages). The advantages of SHINE include: (1) It is feasible for end users to specify their information need along different dimensions by accepting queries with different types. (2) Answering a query by multiple types of entities provides informative context for users to better understand the search results and facilitate their information exploration. (3) Multiple relations among...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CIKM
• Authors: Xuanhui Wang, Jian-Tao Sun, Zheng Chen
• Keywords: CIKM 2007, Entities, Heterogeneous Entities, Interrelated Entities