Entity ranking in Wikipedia: Utilising categories, links and topic difficulty prediction

Information Retrieval

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 568-600

  Pehcevski, Jovan ^a   Thom, James A ^b   Vercoustre, Anne Marie ^c   Naumovski, Vladimir ^d  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Macedonia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

^d T Mobile Macedonia   (Macedonia)

Author keywords

Entity ranking; INEX; Wikipedia; XML Retrieval

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957147134     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-009-9125-9     Document Type: Article

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