Extracting mnemonic names of people from the web

  • Authors:
  • Tomoko Hokama;Hiroyuki Kitagawa

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba;Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba

  • Venue:
  • ICADL'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Asian Digital Libraries: achievements, Challenges and Opportunities
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The web has gained much attention as new media reflecting real-time interest in the world. This attention is driven by the proliferation of tools like bulletin boards and weblogs. The web is a source from which we can collect and summarize information about a particular object (e.g., business organization, product, person, etc.) For example, the extraction of reputation information is a major research topic in information extraction and knowledge extraction from the web. The ability to collect web pages about a particular object is essential in obtaining such information and extracting knowledge from it. A big problem in the web page collection process is that the same objects are referred to in different ways in different web documents. For example, a person may be referred to by full name, first name, affiliation and title, or nicknames. This paper proposes a method for extracting these mnemonic names of people from the web and shows experimental results using real web data.