Entity ranking in Wikipedia

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1101-1106

  Vercoustre, Anne Marie ^a   Thom, James A ^b   Pehcevski, Jovan ^a  

^a INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Entity ranking; Test collection; XML retrieval

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; INFORMATION SERVICES; MARKUP LANGUAGES; QUERY LANGUAGES; XML;

DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS; ENTITY IDENTIFICATIONS; ENTITY RANKING; LINK STRUCTURES; NAMED ENTITIES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PLAIN TEXTS; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESSES; TEST COLLECTION; WIKIPEDIA; XML RETRIEVAL;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 51849092997     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1363686.1363943     Document Type: Conference Paper

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