Wikipedia has become one of the ten most visited sites on the Web, and the world's leading
source of Web reference information. Its rapid success has inspired hundreds of scholars …

In some situations search engine users would prefer to retrieve entities instead of just
documents. Example queries include “Italian Nobel prize winners”,“Formula 1 drivers that …

Although primarily an encyclopedia, Wikipedia's expansive content provides a knowledge
base that has been continuously exploited by researchers in a wide variety of domains. This …

The increasing volume of textual information on any topic requires its compression to allow
humans to digest it. This implies detecting the most important information and condensing it …

We present ESTER, a modular and highly efficient system for combined full-text and
ontology search. ESTER builds on a query engine that supports two basic operations: prefix …

Wikipedia is a valuable resource, useful as a lingustic corpus or a dataset for many kinds of
research. We built corpora from Wikipedia articles and talk pages in the I5 format, a TEI …

In this paper we investigate the task of Entity Ranking on the Web. Searchers looking for
entities are arguably better served by presenting a ranked list of entities directly, rather than …

The Web has not only grown in size, but also changed its character, due to collaborative
content creation and an increasing amount of structure. Current Search Engines find Web …

Towards an Efficient and Effective Search Engine. Page 45 Towards an Efficient and Effective
Search Engine Andrew Trotman Department of Computer Science University of Otago Dunedin …

Ranking information resources is a task that usually happens within more complex
workflows and that typically occurs in any form of information retrieval, being commonly …