The overall goal of the track is to perform entity-oriented search tasks on the World Wide
Web. Many user information needs concern entities (people, organizations, locations …

Related entity finding is the task of returning a ranked list of homepages of relevant entities
of a specified type that need to engage in a given relationship with a given source entity. We …

We propose an approach to the retrieval of entities that have a specific relationship with the
entity given in a query. Our research goal is to investigate whether related entity finding …

Entity search is an emerging research topic in Information Retrieval, where the goal is to
rank not documents, but entities in response to a given query. A particularly challenging …

This paper gives an overview of our work for the TREC 2010 Entity track. The goal of the
TREC Entity track is to study entity-related searches on Web data, which has not been …

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 …

1. Introduction of library databases by humanities scholars [44, 351]. Calls for the continued
study of the research behavior and development of tools also originate from within the …

In this paper, we present a Web application for entity ranking. The application accepts as
input a query in natural language and outputs a list of the most relevant entities according to …

In the past decade, the prosperity of the World Wide Web has led to fast explosion of
information, and there is a long-standing demand on how to access such a huge volume of …

Most existing search engines focus on document retrieval. However, information needs are
certainly not limited to finding relevant documents. Instead, a user may want to find relevant …