Abstract. If one wants to have a scheme for identifying non-Web accessible entities, should it be centralized or decentralized? Given a URI, how can one tell if it refers to a web ...
In this paper we investigate the task of Entity Ranking on the Web. Searchers looking for entities are arguably better served by presenting a ranked list of entities directly, rat...
Rianne Kaptein, Pavel Serdyukov, Arjen P. de Vries...
The Web consists of a large amount of unstructured information that hardly can be elaborated by automatic agents. In recent years, a considerable number of techniques for informat...
Leonardo Rigutini, Ernesto Di Iorio, Marco Ernande...
We present the Entity Name System (ENS), an enabling infrastructure, which can host descriptions of named entities and provide unique identifiers, on large-scale. In this way, it o...
This paper is concerned with the problem of mining competitors from the Web automatically. Nowadays, the fierce competition in the market necessitates every company to know not onl...