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Utilizing Knowledge Bases in Text-centric Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2016)

General-purpose knowledge bases are increasingly growing in terms of depth (content) and width (coverage). Moreover, algorithms for entity linking and entity retrieval have improved tremendously in the past years. These developments give rise to a new line of research that exploits and combines these developments for the purposes of text-centric…

Dynamic Collective Entity Representations for Entity Ranking

07/01/2016 Blog Conference Papers Publications No Comments

Entity ranking, i.e., successfully positioning a relevant entity at the top of the ranking for a given query, is inherently difficult due to the potential mismatch between the entity’s description in a knowledge base, and the way people refer to the entity when searching for it. To counter this issue…

Mining, ranking and recommending entity aspects

06/08/2015 Blog Conference Papers Publications No Comments

Entity queries constitute a large fraction of web search queries and most of these queries are in the form of an entity mention plus some context terms that represent an intent in the context of that entity. We refer to these entity-oriented search intents as entity aspects. Recognizing entity aspects…

Dynamic query modeling for related content finding

06/08/2015 Blog Conference Papers Publications No Comments

While watching television, people increasingly consume additional content related to what they are watching. We consider the task of finding video content related to a live television broadcast for which we leverage the textual stream of subtitles associated with the broadcast. We model this task as a Markov decision process…

Learning to Explain Entity Relationships in Knowledge Graphs

23/07/2015 Blog Conference Papers Publications No Comments

We study the problem of explaining relationships between pairs of knowledge graph entities with human-readable descriptions. Our method extracts and enriches sentences that refer to an entity pair from a corpus and ranks the sentences according to how well they describe the relationship between the entities. We model this task…

Fast and Space-Efficient Entity Linking in Queries

20/01/2015 Blog Conference Papers Publications No Comments

Entity linking deals with identifying entities from a knowledge base in a given piece of text and has become a fundamental building block for web search engines, enabling numerous downstream improvements from better document ranking to enhanced search results pages. A key problem in the context of web search queries…

Linking queries to entities

24/02/2014 Blog No Comments

I’m happy to announce we’re releasing a new test collection for entity linking for web queries (within user sessions) to Wikipedia. About half of the queries in this dataset are sampled from Yahoo search logs, the other half comes from the TREC Session track. Check out the L24 dataset on Yahoo…

Entity Linking and Retrieval for Semantic Search (WSDM 2014)

24/02/2014 Blog No Comments

This morning, we presented the last edition of our tutorial series on Entity Linking and Retrieval, entitled “Entity Linking and Retrieval for Semantic Search” (with Krisztian Balog and Daan Odijk) at WSDM 2014! This final edition of the series builds upon our earlier tutorials at WWW 2013 and SIGIR 2013. The focus of this…

RepLab 2014

23/02/2014 Blog No Comments

RepLab is a competitive evaluation exercise for Online Reputation Management systems. In 2012 and 2013, RepLab focused on the problem of monitoring the reputation of (company) entities on Twitter, and dealt with the tasks of entity linking (“Is the tweet about the entity?”), reputation polarity (“Does the tweet have positive…

Entity Linking and Retrieval Tutorial @ SIGIR 2013 – Slides, Code, and Bibliography

29/07/2013 Blog No Comments

The material for our “Entity Linking and Retrieval” tutorial (with Krisztian Balog and Daan Odijk) for SIGIR 2013 has been updated and is available online on GitHub (slides), Dropbox (slides), Mendeley, and CodeAcademy. All material is summarized at the webpage for the tutorial: http://ejmeij.github.io/entity-linking-and-retrieval-tutorial/. See my other blogpost for a brief summary.

Edgar Meij

Tag: Entity linking