Linking queries to entities

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 Tutorial @ SIGIR 2013 – Slides, Code, and Bibliography

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.

Entity Linking and Retrieval Tutorial – Slides, Code, and Bibliography

The material for our “Entity Linking and Retrieval” tutorial (with Krisztian Balog and Daan Odijk) for WWW2013 is now available online on GitHub, 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.