Wikipedia Archives - Edgar Meij

Generating descriptions of entity relationships

Large-scale knowledge graphs (KGs) store relationships between entities that are increasingly being used to improve the user experience in search applications. The structured nature of the data in KGs is typically not suitable to show to an end user and applications that utilize KGs therefore benefit from human-readable textual descriptions…

Utilizing Knowledge Bases in Text-centric Information Retrieval (WSDM 2017)

09/01/2017 Blog Conference Papers Publications No Comments

The past decade has witnessed the emergence of several publicly available and proprietary knowledge graphs (KGs). The increasing depth and breadth of content in KGs makes them not only rich sources of structured knowledge by themselves but also valuable resources for search systems. A surge of recent developments in entity…

Document Filtering for Long-tail Entities

24/10/2016 Blog Conference Papers Publications No Comments

Filtering relevant documents with respect to entities is an essential task in the context of knowledge base construction and maintenance. It entails processing a time-ordered stream of documents that might be relevant to an entity in order to select only those that contain vital information. State-of-the-art approaches to document filtering…

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

12/09/2016 Blog Conference Papers Publications No Comments

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…

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 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.

Multilingual Semantic Linking for Video Streams: Making “Ideas Worth Sharing” More Accessible

15/05/2013 Blog Publications Workshop Papers No Comments

This paper describes our (winning!) submission to the Developers Challenge at WoLE2013, “Doing Good by Linking Entities.” We present a fully automatic system – called “Semantic TED” – which provides intelligent suggestions in the form of links to Wikipedia articles for video streams in multiple languages, based on the subtitles…