@inproceedings{hu2006a,
author = {Hu, Guoping and Liu, JJ (Jingjing) and Li, Hang and Cao, Yunbo and Nie, Jian-Yun and Gao, Jianfeng},
title = {A Supervised Learning Approach to Entity Search},
booktitle = {AIRS 2006},
year = {2006},
month = {January},
abstract = {In this paper we address the problem of entity search. Expert search and time search are used as examples. In entity search, given a query and an entity type, a search system returns a ranked list of entities in the type (e.g., person name, time expression) relevant to the query. Ranking is a key issue in entity search. In the literature, only expert search was studied and the use of co-occurrence was proposed. In general, many features may be useful for ranking in entity search. We propose using a linear model to combine the uses of different features and employing a supervised learning approach in training of the model. Experimental results on several data sets indicate that our method significantly outperforms the baseline method based solely on co-occurrences.},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/a-supervised-learning-approach-to-entity-search/},
}