Exploiting the category structure of Wikipedia for entity ranking

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 194, Issue , 2013, Pages 111-129

  Kaptein, Rianne ^a   Kamps, Jaap ^b  

^a Oxyme   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Category structure; Entity ranking; Link structure; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

AD HOC RETRIEVAL; CONTENT CREATION; DATA SETS; ENTITY RANKING; LINK STRUCTURE; NAMED ENTITIES; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; REDUNDANT INFORMATIONS; RELEVANCE ASSESSMENTS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; WEB SEARCHES; WIKIPEDIA; XML RETRIEVAL;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84870300056     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2012.06.003     Document Type: Article

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