[ΒΙΒΛΙΟ][B] Entity-oriented search

K Balog - 2018 - library.oapen.org
This open access book covers all facets of entity-oriented search—where “search” can be
interpreted in the broadest sense of information access—from a unified point of view, and …

DBpedia-entity v2: a test collection for entity search

F Hasibi, F Nikolaev, C **ong, K Balog… - Proceedings of the 40th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The DBpedia-entity collection has been used as a standard test collection for entity search in
recent years. We develop and release a new version of this test collection, DBpedia-Entity …

Identifying and exploiting target entity type information for ad hoc entity retrieval

D Garigliotti, F Hasibi, K Balog - Information Retrieval Journal, 2019 - Springer
Today, the practice of returning entities from a knowledge base in response to search
queries has become widespread. One of the distinctive characteristics of entities is that they …

Semantic answer type prediction using bert: Iai at the iswc smart task 2020

V Setty, K Balog - arxiv preprint arxiv:2109.06714, 2021 - arxiv.org
This paper summarizes our participation in the SMART Task of the ISWC 2020 Challenge. A
particular question we are interested in answering is how well neural methods, and …

Improving answer type classification quality through combined question answering datasets

A Perevalov, A Both - … : 14th International Conference, KSEM 2021, Tokyo …, 2021 - Springer
Understanding what a person is asking via a question is one of the first steps that humans
use to find the corresponding answer. The same is true for Question Answering (QA) …

Type linking for query understanding and semantic search

G Stoilos, N Papasarantopoulos… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Huawei is currently undertaking an effort to build map and web search services using query
understanding and semantic search techniques. We present our efforts to built a low-latency …

Contextualizing trending entities in news stories

M Ponza, D Ceccarelli, P Ferragina, E Meij… - Proceedings of the 14th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Trends are those keywords, phrases, or names that are mentioned most often on social
media or in news in a particular timeframe. They are an effective way for human news …

Leveraging fine-grained Wikipedia categories for entity search

D Ma, Y Chen, KCC Chang, X Du, C Xu… - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Ad-hoc entity search, which is to retrieve a ranked list of relevant entities in response to a
query of natural language question, has been widely studied. It has been shown that …

Extreme Classification for Answer Type Prediction in Question Answering

V Setty - 2023 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Semantic answer type prediction (SMART) is known to be a useful step towards designing
effective question answering (QA) systems. The SMART task involves predicting the top-k …

Entity Examples for Explainable Query Target Type Identification with LLMs

D Garigliotti - … Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and …, 2024 - Springer
When answering a user query with relevant entities from a knowledge base (KB), utilizing
their semantic class or type information typically structured in the KB is known to improve the …