A review of web searching studies and a framework for future research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
ACM SIGIR Forum
The perfect search engine is not enough: a study of orienteering behavior in directed search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Semantic Relevance and Semantic Disorders
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Entity Name System: The Back-Bone of an Open and Scalable Web of Data
ICSC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
Named entity recognition in query
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A novel approach for entity linkage
IRI'09 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE international conference on Information Reuse & Integration
Towards a general entity representation model
IRI'09 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE international conference on Information Reuse & Integration
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Searching for information about individual entities such as persons, locations, events, is a major activity in Internet search. General purpose search engines are the most commonly used access point to entity-centric information. In this context, keyword queries are the primary means of retrieving information about specific entities. We argue that an important first step to understand the information need that underly an entity-centric query is to understand what type of entity the user is looking for. We call this process Entity Type Disambiguation. In this paper we present a Naive Bayesian Model for entity type disambiguation that explores our assumption that an entity type can be inferred from the attributes a user specifies in a search query. The model has been applied to queries provided by a large sample of participants in an experiment performing an entity search task. The results of the model performance evaluation are presented and discussed. Finally, an extension of the model that includes the distribution of attributes inside the query is presented and its implications are investigated.