The First International Workshop on Entity-Oriented Search (EOS)
Important Dates
Submissions due: June 10, 2011
Notification of acceptance: June 25, 2011
Camera-ready submission: July 1, 2011 (provisional, awaiting confirmation)
Workshop date: July 28, 2011
From the website:
Workshop Theme
Many user information needs concern entities: people, organizations, locations, products, etc. These are better answered by returning specific objects instead of just any type of documents. Both commercial systems and the research community are displaying an increased interest in returning “objects”, “entities”, or their properties in response to a user’s query. While major search engines are capable of recognizing specific types of objects (e.g., locations, events, celebrities), true entity search still has a long way to go.
Entity retrieval is challenging as “objects” unlike documents, are not directly represented and need to be identified and recognized in the mixed space of structured and unstructured Web data. While standard document retrieval methods applied to textual representations of entities do seem to provide reasonable performance, a big open question remains how much influence the entity type should have on the ranking algorithms developed.
Avoiding repeated document searching by successive users will require identification as suggested here. Sub-document addressing and retrieval of portions of documents is another aspect to the entity issue.