Supporting the automatic construction of entity aware search engines

Lorenzo Blanco; Valter Crescenzi; Paolo Merialdo; Paolo Papotti

doi:10.1145/1458502.1458526

Supporting the automatic construction of entity aware search engines

Lorenzo Blanco, Valter Crescenzi, Paolo Merialdo, Paolo Papotti

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Abstract

Several web sites deliver a large number of pages, each publishing data about one instance of some real world entity, such as an athlete, a stock quote, a book. Although it is easy for a human reader to recognize these instances, current search engines are unaware of them. Technologies for the Semantic Web aim at achieving this goal; however, so far they have been of little help in this respect, as semantic publishing is very limited. We have developed a method to automatically search on the web for pages that publish data representing an instance of a certain conceptual entity. Our method takes as input a small set of sample pages: it automatically infers a description of the underlying conceptual entity and then searches the web for other pages containing data representing the same entity. We have implemented our method in a system prototype, which has been used to conduct several experiments that have produced interesting results.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Web Information and Data Management, WIDM '08, Co-located with the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM '08
Pages	149-156
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1458502.1458526
State	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	10th ACM Workshop on Web Information and Data Management, WIDM '08, Co-located with the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM '08 - Napa Valley, CA, United States Duration: Oct 26 2008 → Oct 30 2008

Publication series

Name	International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

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Other	10th ACM Workshop on Web Information and Data Management, WIDM '08, Co-located with the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM '08
Country/Territory	United States
City	Napa Valley, CA
Period	10/26/08 → 10/30/08

Keywords

Entity aware search engines
Resource discovery
Web exploration

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Decision Sciences
General Business, Management and Accounting

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Blanco, L., Crescenzi, V., Merialdo, P., & Papotti, P. (2008). Supporting the automatic construction of entity aware search engines. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Web Information and Data Management, WIDM '08, Co-located with the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM '08 (pp. 149-156). (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1145/1458502.1458526

Supporting the automatic construction of entity aware search engines. / Blanco, Lorenzo; Crescenzi, Valter; Merialdo, Paolo et al.
Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Web Information and Data Management, WIDM '08, Co-located with the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM '08. 2008. p. 149-156 (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Blanco, L, Crescenzi, V, Merialdo, P & Papotti, P 2008, Supporting the automatic construction of entity aware search engines. in Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Web Information and Data Management, WIDM '08, Co-located with the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM '08. International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings, pp. 149-156, 10th ACM Workshop on Web Information and Data Management, WIDM '08, Co-located with the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM '08, Napa Valley, CA, United States, 10/26/08. https://doi.org/10.1145/1458502.1458526

Blanco L, Crescenzi V, Merialdo P, Papotti P. Supporting the automatic construction of entity aware search engines. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Web Information and Data Management, WIDM '08, Co-located with the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM '08. 2008. p. 149-156. (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/1458502.1458526

Blanco, Lorenzo ; Crescenzi, Valter ; Merialdo, Paolo et al. / Supporting the automatic construction of entity aware search engines. Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Web Information and Data Management, WIDM '08, Co-located with the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM '08. 2008. pp. 149-156 (International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings).

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