=Paper=
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|id=Vol-1350/paper-03
|storemode=property
|title=Entity-oriented
                Search Engine Result Pages
|pdfUrl=https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1350/paper-03.pdf
|volume=Vol-1350
|dblpUrl=https://dblp.org/rec/conf/dlog/Rijke15
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==Entity-oriented
                Search Engine Result Pages==
<pdf width="1500px">https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1350/paper-03.pdf</pdf>
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    Entity-oriented Search Engine Result Pages

                               Maarten de Rijke

              University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
                                 derijke@uva.nl

    Modern search engine result pages often contain a mixture of results from
structured and unstructured sources. Where such mixtures of structured and
unstructured information are called for, the state-of-the-art is to organize com-
plex search engine result pages around entities. Generating such a mixture of
entity-oriented results in response to a traditional keyword query raises a num-
ber of interesting retrieval challenges. How do we link queries to entities? How
do we identify different aspects of entities in cases where we are unsure about
the user’s intent? How do we associate an entity with a topic that a user appears
to be interested in? And how do we explain the relation between entities that
are being presented as being similar or related?
    In this area, a wide variety of complementary and competing proposed solu-
tions exist. This talk provides a snapshot of current approaches to entity-focused
search engine result pages, illustrates key developments using example, and out-
lines open questions and research opportunities.
    The talk is based in part on joint work with Lars Buitinck, David Graus,
Xinyi Li, Edgar Meij, Daan Odijk, Ridho Reinanda, Isaac Sijaranamual, Manos
Tsagkias, Christophe Van Gysel, Nikos Voskarides, and Wouter Weerkamp.

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