A vector space model for ranking entities and its application to expert search

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5478 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 189-201

  Demartini, Gianluca ^a   Gaugaz, Julien ^a   Nejdl, Wolfgang ^a  

^a L3S RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTITY RANKING; FORMAL MODEL; IR TECHNIQUES; MATCHING QUERY TERMS; SEARCH TASKS; VECTOR SPACE MODELS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 67650742582     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (25)

1. Anick, P.G., Tipirneni, S.: The Paraphrase Search Assistant: Terminological Feedback for Iterative Information Seeking. In: SIGIR, pp. 153-159 (1999)
2. Bailey, P., Craswell, N., Soboroff, I., de Vries, A.P.: The CSIRO enterprise search test collection. SIGIR Forum 41(2), 42-45 (2007)
3. Balog, K., Azzopardi, L., de Rijke, M.: Formal models for expert finding in enterprise corpora. In: SIGIR, pp. 43-50 (2006)
4. Bast, H., Chitea, A., Suchanek, F., Weber, I.: ESTER: efficient search on text, entities, and relations. In: SIGIR, pp. 671-678 (2007) (Pubitemid 350165018)
5. Chakrabarti, S.: Dynamic personalized pagerank in entity-relation graphs. In: WWW, pp. 571-580 (2007) (Pubitemid 47582286)
6. Cheng, T., Chang, K.C.C.: Entity Search Engine: Towards Agile Best-Effort Information Integration over the Web. In: Proc. of CIDR 2007, pp. 108-113 (2007)
7. Cheng, T., Yan, X., Chang, K.C.-C.: EntityRank: Searching Entities Directly and Holistically. In: VLDB, pp. 387-398 (2007)
8. Chirita, P.A., Firan, C.S., Nejdl, W.: Summarizing Local Context to Personalize Global Web Search. In: CIKM, pp. 287-296 (2006) (Pubitemid 47203576)
9. Craswell, N., Hawking, D.: Overview of the TREC-2004 Web Track. In: The Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2004) (2004)
10. Craswell, N., Hawking, D., Vercoustre, A.,Wilkins, P.: P@noptic Expert: Searching for Experts not just for Documents. Ausweb (2001)
11. de Vries, A.P., Vercoustre, A.-M., Thom, J.A., Craswell, N., Lalmas, M.: Overview of the INEX 2007 Entity Ranking Track. In: INEX, pp. 245-251 (2007)
12. Deerwester, S., Dumais, S.T., Furnas, G.W., Landauer, T.K., Harshman, R.: Indexing by latent semantic analysis. JASIS 41(6), 391-407 (1990)
13. Demartini, G., Firan, C.S., Iofciu, T., Krestel, R., Nejdl, W.: A Model for Ranking Entities and Its Application to Wikipedia. In: Proceedings of The Latin-American Web Conference (LA-WEB 2008) (2008)
14. Demartini, G., Firan, C.S., Iofciu, T., Nejdl, W.: Semantically Enhanced Entity Ranking. In: Bailey, J., Maier, D., Schewe, K.-D., Thalheim, B., Wang, X.S. (eds.) WISE 2008. LNCS, vol.5175, pp. 176-188. Springer, Heidelberg (2008)
15. Denoyer, L., Gallinari, P.: The Wikipedia XML corpus. SIGIR Forum 40(1), 64-69 (2006)
16. Dumais, S.T.: Improving the retrieval of information from external sources. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers 23(2), 229-236 (1991)
17. Macdonald, C., Ounis, I.: Voting for Candidates: Adapting Data Fusion Techniques for an Expert Search Task. In: CIKM, pp. 387-396 (2006) (Pubitemid 47203584)
18. Macdonald, C., Ounis, I.: Using relevance feedback in expert search. In: Amati, G., Carpineto, C., Romano, G. (eds.) ECIR 2007. LNCS, vol.4425, pp. 431-443. Springer, Heidelberg (2007)
19. Macdonald, C., Hannah, D., Ounis, I.: High quality expertise evidence for expert search. In: Macdonald, C., Ounis, I., Plachouras, V., Ruthven, I., White, R.W. (eds.) ECIR 2008. LNCS, vol.4956, pp. 283-295. Springer, Heidelberg (2008)
20. Manning, C.D., Raghavan, P., Scḧ H.: Introduction to Information Retrieval. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2008)
21. McLean, A., Vercoustre, A.M., Wu, M.: Enterprise PeopleFinder: Combining Evidence from Web Pages and Corporate Data. In: Proceedings of Australian Document Computing Symposium (2003)
22. Pehcevski, J., Vercoustre, A.-M., Thom, J.A.: Exploiting Locality of Wikipedia Links in Entity Ranking. In: Macdonald, C., Ounis, I., Plachouras, V., Ruthven, I., White, R.W. (eds.) ECIR 2008. LNCS, vol.4956, pp. 258-269. Springer, Heidelberg (2008)
23. Rölleke, T., Tsikrika, T., Kazai, G.: A general matrix framework for modelling Information Retrieval. Information Processing and Management 42(1), 4-30 (2006) (Pubitemid 41119075)
24. Salton, G., Wong, A., Yang, C.S.: A vector space model for automatic indexing. Communications of the ACM 18(11), 613-620 (1975)
25. Zirn, C., Nastase, V., Strube, M.: Distinguishing between Instances and Classes in the Wikipedia Taxonomy. In: Bechhofer, S., Hauswirth, M., Hoffmann, J., Koubarakis, M. (eds.) ESWC 2008. LNCS, vol.5021, pp. 376-387. Springer, Heidelberg (2008)