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WEBI
2007
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
Concordance-Based Entity-Oriented Search
— We consider the problem of finding the relevant named entities in response to a search query over a given text corpus. Entity search can readily be used to augment conventiona...
Mikhail Bautin, Steven Skiena
EMNLP
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Exploiting Wikipedia as External Knowledge for Named Entity Recognition
We explore the use of Wikipedia as external knowledge to improve named entity recognition (NER). Our method retrieves the corresponding Wikipedia entry for each candidate word seq...
Jun'ichi Kazama, Kentaro Torisawa
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Learning to rank for quantity consensus queries
Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...
Somnath Banerjee, Soumen Chakrabarti, Ganesh Ramak...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
118views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
NAGA: harvesting, searching and ranking knowledge
The presence of encyclopedic Web sources, such as Wikipedia, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), World Factbook, etc. calls for new querying techniques that are simple and yet mor...
Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Georgiana Ifr...
JASIS
2011
124views more  JASIS 2011»
13 years 1 months ago
Ranking of Wikipedia articles in search engines revisited: Fair ranking for reasonable quality?
This paper aims to review the fiercely discussed question of whether the ranking of Wikipedia articles in search engines is justified by the quality of the articles. After an over...
Dirk Lewandowski, Ulrike Spree