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...
In this paper, we investigate an approach for creating a comprehensive textual overview of a subject composed of information drawn from the Internet. We use the high-level structu...
Wikipedia is the largest monolithic repository of human knowledge. In addition to its sheer size, it represents a new encyclopedic paradigm by interconnecting articles through hyp...
This paper describes Koru, a new search interface that offers effective domain-independent knowledge-based information retrieval. Koru exhibits an understanding of the topics of b...
Web information retrieval is best known for its use of the Web’s link structure as a source of evidence. Global link evidence is by nature query-independent, and is therefore no ...