Entity ranking using Wikipedia as a pivot

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 69-78

  Kaptein, Rianne ^a   Serdyukov, Pavel ^b   De Vries, Arjen ^b,c   Kamps, Jaap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Web entity ranking; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

ENTITY RANKING; EXTERNAL LINKS; HIGH PRECISION; HOME PAGE; REDUNDANT INFORMATIONS; TEST COLLECTION; TEXT RETRIEVAL; WEB ENTITIES; WEB PAGE; WIKIPEDIA;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; WEBSITES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 78651315404     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1871437.1871451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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