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ABSTRACT

This paper describes the creation of a testbed to evaluate people searching strategies on the World-Wide-Web. This task involves resolving person names' ambiguity and locating relevant information characterising every individual under the same name.

REFERENCES

• 1: C. H. Gooi and J. Allan. Cross-Document Coreference on a Large Scale Corpus. Technical report, Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, Department of Computer Science. Univ. of Massachusetts, 2004.
• 2: R. V. Guha and A. Garg. Disambiguating People in Search. In Proceedings of the 13th World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2004), ACM Press, 2004.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
          Subjects: Clustering

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.4 Systems and Software
          Subjects: Performance evaluation (efficiency and effectiveness)

General Terms:
Experimentation

Keywords:
information extraction, information retrieval, web search