NERank: Ranking Named Entities in Document Collections

Chengyu Wang, Rong Zhang, Xiaofeng He*, Aoying Zhou

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

While most of the entity ranking research focuses on Web corpora with user queries as input, little has been done to rank entities directly from documents. We propose a ranking algorithm NERank to address this issue. NERank employs a random walk process on a weighted tripartite graph mined from the document collection. We evaluate NERank over real-life document datasets and compare it with baselines. Experimental results show the effectiveness of our method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages123-124
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450341448
DOIs
StatePublished - 11 Apr 2016
Event25th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2016 - Montreal, Canada
Duration: 11 May 201615 May 2016

Publication series

NameWWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web

Conference

Conference25th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2016
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period11/05/1615/05/16

Keywords

  • entity ranking
  • random walk
  • tripartite graph

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