The desire for definitive data and the semantic web drive for inference over heterogeneous data sources requires co-reference resolution to be performed on those data. In particul...
Person name queries often bring up web pages that correspond to individuals sharing the same name. The Web People Search (WePS) task consists of organizing search results for ambi...
Say you are looking for information about a particular person. A search engine returns many pages for that person's name but which pages are about the person you care about, ...
Similarity measures for text have historically been an important tool for solving information retrieval problems. In many interesting settings, however, documents are often closel...
— Results of queries by personal names often contain documents related to several people because of the namesake problem. In order to differentiate documents related to different...