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...
The emergence of the world-wide-web has led to an increased interest in methods for searching for information. A key characteristic of many of the online document collections is t...
In this paper we explore the use of category information for ad hoc retrieval in Wikipedia. We show that techniques for entity ranking exploiting this category information can als...