Alleviating the Problem of Wrong Coreferences in Web Person Search

  • Authors:
  • Octavian Popescu;Bernardo Magnini

  • Affiliations:
  • No Affiliations,;No Affiliations,

  • Venue:
  • CICLing '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we present a system for the Web People Search task, which is the task of clustering together the pages referring to the same person. The vector space model approached is modified in order to develop a more flexible clustering technique. We have implemented a dynamic weighting procedure for the attributes common to different cluster in order to maximize the between cluster variance with respect with the within cluster variance. We show that in this way the undesired collateral effect such as superposition and masking are alleviated. The system we present obtains similar results to the ones reported by the top three systems presented at the SEMEVAL 2007 competition.