The importance of named entities in information retrieval and knowledge management has recently brought interest in characterizing semantic relationships between entities. In this...
Abstract. Users often search for entities instead of documents and in this setting are willing to provide extra input, in addition to a query, such as category information and exam...
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...
Keyword search over entity databases (e.g., product, movie databases) is an important problem. Current techniques for keyword search on databases may often return incomplete and i...
Query logs of a Web search engine have been increasingly used as a vital source for data mining. This paper presents a study on largescale domain-independent entity extraction fro...