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...
As the Web has evolved into a data-rich repository, with the standard “page view,” current search engines are becoming increasingly inadequate for a wide range of query tasks....
— We consider the problem of finding the relevant named entities in response to a search query over a given text corpus. Entity search can readily be used to augment conventiona...
Entity search, a significant departure from page-based retrieval, finds data, i.e., entities, embedded in documents directly and holistically across the whole collection. This pap...
Already in the early 14th century, the philosopher William of Ockham created the philosophical principle known as Ockham’s Razor, which can be translated from Latin as ”entiti...