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CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Ranking related entities: components and analyses
Related entity finding is the task of returning a ranked list of homepages of relevant entities of a specified type that need to engage in a given relationship with a given sour...
Marc Bron, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
WSDM
2010
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Gathering and Ranking Photos of Named Entities with High Precision, High Recall, and Diversity
Knowledge-sharing communities like Wikipedia and automated extraction methods like those of DBpedia enable the construction of large machine-processible knowledge bases with relat...
Bilyana Taneva, Mouna Kacimi, Gerhard Weikum
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Using wikipedia categories for ad hoc search
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...
Rianne Kaptein, Marijn Koolen, Jaap Kamps
WEBI
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Concordance-Based Entity-Oriented Search
— 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...
Mikhail Bautin, Steven Skiena
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
"More like these": growing entity classes from seeds
We present a corpus-based approach to the class expansion task. For a given set of seed entities we use co-occurrence statistics taken from a text collection to define a membersh...
Luís Sarmento, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de...