Finding information about people on the Web using a search engine is difficult because there is a many-to-many mapping between person names and specific persons (i.e. referents). ...
In bibliographies like DBLP and Citeseer, there are three kinds of entity-name problems that need to be solved. First, multiple entities share one name, which is called the name sh...
This paper describes a language-independent, scalable system for both challenges of crossdocument co-reference: name variation and entity disambiguation. We provide system results...
Search results clustering problem is defined as an automatic, on-line grouping of similar documents in a search results list returned from a search engine. In this paper we present...
Metonymic location names refer to other, related entities and possess a meaning different from the literal, geographic sense. Metonymic names are to be treated differently to im...