Related Entity Finding Based on Co-Occurrence

Publication Type  Conference Paper
Author  Bron M., Balog K., de Rijke M.
Year of Publication  2010
Conference Name  Proceedings of the Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2009)
Month Published  February
Abstract  

We report on experiments for the Related Entity Finding task in which we focus on only using Wikipedia as a target corpus in which to identify (related) entities. Our approach is based on co-occurrences between the source entity and potential target entities. We observe improvements in performance when a context-independent co-occurrence model is combined with context-dependent co-occurrence models in which we stress the importance of the expected relation between source and target entity. Applying type filtering yields further improvements of the results.

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