Entity-Oriented Search

Krisztian Balog is a full professor of Computer Science, heading the Information Access and Interaction (IAI) group at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Stavanger. His general research interests lie in the use and development of information retrieval, information extraction, and machine learning techniques for intelligent information access tasks, and his current emphasis is on entity-oriented and semantic search, and novel evaluation methodologies. His work on entity retrieval has been very influential and has received numerous awards.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Meet the Data.- 3 Term-Based Models for Entity Ranking.- 4 Semantically Enriched Models for Entity Ranking.- 5 Entity Linking.- 6 Populating Knowledge Bases.- 7 Understanding Information Needs.- 8 Leveraging Entities in Document Retrieval.- 9 Utilizing Entities for an Enhanced Search Experience.- 10 Conclusions and Future Directions.