People have looked for experts since before the advent of computers. With advances in
information retrieval technology and the large-scale availability of digital traces of …

Entity-oriented search tasks heavily rely on exploiting unstructured and structured
collections. Moreover, it is frequent for text corpora and knowledge bases to provide …

Modern search is heavily powered by knowledge bases, but users still query using
keywords or natural language. As search becomes increasingly dependent on the …

The First International Workshop on Entity-Oriented Search (EOS) workshop was held on
July 28, 2011 in Beijing, China, in conjunction with the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR …

Both the WWW research community and industry have shown increasing interests in not just
finding relevant documents, but specific objects or entities to satisfy more sophisticated user …

Managing large volumes of digital documents along with the information they contain, or are
associated with, can be challenging. As systems become more intelligent, it increasingly …

Entity-oriented search has revolutionized search engines. In the era of Google Knowledge
Graph and Microsoft Satori, users demand an effortless process of search. Whether they …

Entity retrieval has emerged as a nascent Information Retrieval (IR) research area aiming at
satisfying increasingly sophisticated user information needs that go beyond document …