TREC Entity Track // Searching for entities and properties of entities

Task proposal: Related entity finding

Given the name and homepage of an entity, as well as the type of the target entity, find related entities that are of target type.

Input

  • Name and homepage of an entity
  • Type of the target entity
  • Narrative (context for the search)

Output

  • Homepages of target entities
  • Supporting documents

Example

<query>
<entity_name>Kimi Raikkonen</entity_name>
<entity_URL>http://www.kimiraikkonen.com/</entity_URL>
<target_entity>organization</target_entity>
<narrative>I’d like to know which organizations are
sponsoring Kimi.</narrative>
</query>

Issues

  • Which is the preferred homepage of the entity?
    • Possible solution: Give list of entities of interest to begin with, and then bring the evidence from the collection to bear on this.
    • Con: this starts looking a lot INEX-XER. However, there is much more and heterogeneous data.

One Response to “Task proposal: Related entity finding”

  1. dumeiwuyan
    March 10th, 2009 at 4:33 am

    Homepages of target entities must be the ones in the given collection?

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