Two birds with one stone: a graph-based framework for disambiguating and tagging people names in web search

ABSTRACT

The ever growing volume of Web data makes it increasingly challenging to accurately find relevant information about a specific person on the Web. To address the challenge caused by name ambiguity in Web people search, this paper explores a novel graph-based framework to both disambiguate and tag people entities in Web search results. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework in tag discovery and name disambiguation.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.0 General

General Terms:
Algorithms, Experimentation, Measurement

Keywords:
clustering, name disambiguation, tagging