Web people search: results of the first evaluation and the plan for the second

This paper presents the motivation, resources and results for the first Web People Search task, which was organized as part of the SemEval-2007 evaluation exercise. Also, we will describe a survey and proposal for a new task, "attribute extraction", which is planned for inclusion in the second evaluation, planned for autumn, 2008. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.5 [INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL]: Online Information Systems, Web-based Service General Terms Performance, Design, Experimentation, Security, Human Factors, Languages. Keywords Disambiguation, person names, attributes of people, information extraction.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Javier Artiles, Satoshi Sekine, Julio Gonzalo
• Keywords: Internet Technology, People Search Task, SemEval-2007 Evaluation Exercise, STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL, WWW 2008