A number of resources used in the paper are available here.

These include:
For the Wikipedia-based evaluation:
- The mapping of source entities to Wikipedia pages
- The Wikipedia-based evaluation script
- Runs described in the paper

For Entity homepage finding:
- HP finding topics and qrels obtained

If you publish results obtained using these resources, please include the following citation:

M. Bron, K. Balog, and M. de Rijke. Ranking Related Entities: Components and Analyses. In: 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '10), Toronto, ACM, October, 2010.

@inproceedings {cikm10entity,
   title = {Ranking Related Entities: Components and Analyses},
   author = {M. Bron and K. Balog and de Rijke, M.},
   booktitle = {CIKM '10: 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management},
   year = {2010},
   month = {October},
   publisher = {ACM},
   organization = {ACM},
   address = {Toronto}
}

A list of entities extracted from the ClueWeb09 collection can be requested by email: M.M.Bron@uva.nl (it is no longer available for download). More information can be found in the Readme.

If you have any questions, please contact: Marc Bron
M.M.Bron@uva.nl