Exploiting web querying for web people search

ACM Transactions on Database Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Nuray Turan, Rabia ^a   Kalashnikov, Dmitri V ^a   Mehrotra, Sharad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated Web querying; Entity resolution; Skyline based classifier; Web people search; WePS

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; CO-OCCURRENCE STATISTICS; CORRELATION CLUSTERING; EXTERNAL DATA SOURCES; QUERY TYPES; WEB PEOPLE SEARCH; WEB QUERYING; WEPS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84859061919     PISSN: 03625915     EISSN: 15574644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2109196.2109203     Document Type: Article

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