Abstract. Information retrieval from web and XML document collections is ever more focused on returning entities instead of web pages or XML elements. There are many research field...
Jovan Pehcevski, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, James A. T...
We describe our participation in the INEX 2009 Entity Ranking track. We employ a probabilistic retrieval model for entity search in which term-based and category-based representati...
Krisztian Balog, Marc Bron, Maarten de Rijke, Wout...
On the Web of Data, entities are often interconnected in a way similar to web documents. Previous works have shown how PageRank can be adapted to achieve entity ranking. In this pa...
The Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University participated in the entity ranking and entity list completion tasks of the Entity Ranking Track in INEX 2007. In both the entit...
This paper describes the participation of the INRIA group in the INEX 2007 XML entity ranking and ad hoc tracks. We developed a system for ranking Wikipedia entities in answer to a...
Anne-Marie Vercoustre, Jovan Pehcevski, James A. T...
Abstract. Many realistic user tasks involve the retrieval of specific entities instead of just any type of documents. Examples of information needs include ‘Countries where one ...
Arjen P. de Vries, Anne-Marie Vercoustre, James A....
Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...