Workshops
Peer-reviewed workshop papers.
A Corpus for Entity Profiling in Microblog Posts
0Microblogs have become an invaluable source of information for the purpose of online reputation management. An emerging problem in the field of online reputation management consists of identifying the key aspects of an entity commented in microblog posts. Streams of microblogs are of great value because of their direct and More >
Entity Search: Building Bridges between Two Worlds
0We have come to depend on technological resources to create order and find meaning in the ever-growing amount of online data. One frequently recurring type of query in web search are queries containing named entities (persons, organizations, locations, etc.): we organize our environments around entities that are meaningful to us. More >
Deploying Lucene on the Grid
0We investigate if and how open source retrieval engines can be deployed in a grid environment. When comparing grids to conventional distributed IR, the lack of a-priori knowledge about available nodes is one of the most significant differences. On top of that, it is also unknown when a particular More >