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The large increase in recent years in the amount of information available online has led to a renewed interest in a broad range of IR-related areas that go beyond standard document retrieval. Some of this new attention has fallen on entity retrieval. This emerging area of entity retrieval differs from traditional document retrieval in a number of ways. Entities are not represented directly (as retrievable units such as documents), and we need to identify them "indirectly" through occurrences in documents. This brings new, exciting challenges to the information retrieval and extraction fields.In the proposed research, I focus on one particular type of entity: people. The need for people search has been recognized by many commercial systems, who offer facilities for finding individuals or properties of individuals. These include locating classmates and old friends, finding partners for date and romance, white and yellow pages, etc. My interest is different, and focuses on "professional" or "work-related" people search applications. I propose two information access tasks, both within an enterprise (or organizational) setting: (i) people finding, which is concerned with the retrieval o

Author

Krisztian Balog

Publisher

ACM

Published

2007

Language

EN