Recent advances in automatic entity linking and knowledge base construction have resulted
in entity annotations for document and query collections. For example, annotations of …

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the broad area of semantic search on text
and knowledge bases. In a nutshell, semantic search is “search with meaning”. This …

People have looked for experts since before the advent of computers. With advances in
information retrieval technology and the large-scale availability of digital traces of …

The availability of large amounts of open, distributed, and structured semantic data on the
web has no precedent in the history of computer science. In recent years, there have been …

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 …

Entity-oriented search systems often learn vector representations of entities via the
introductory paragraph from the Wikipedia page of the entity. As such representations are …

Entity-oriented search tasks heavily rely on exploiting unstructured and structured
collections. Moreover, it is frequent for text corpora and knowledge bases to provide …

We develop and make publicly available an entity search test collection based on the
DBpedia knowledge base. This includes a large number of queries and corresponding …

We present QLever, a query engine for efficient combined search on a knowledge base and
a text corpus, in which named entities from the knowledge base have been identified (that is …

Entity cards are being used frequently in modern web search engines to offer a concise
overview of an entity directly on the results page. These cards are composed of various …