2 papers
cs.IR2018
WISER: A Semantic Approach for Expert Finding in Academia based on Entity Linking
Paolo Cifariello, Paolo Ferragina, Marco Ponza
We present WISER, a new semantic search engine for expert finding in academia. Our system is unsupervised and it jointly combines classical language modeling techniques, based on t…
cs.IR2018
SWAT: A System for Detecting Salient Wikipedia Entities in Texts
Marco Ponza, Paolo Ferragina, Francesco Piccinno
We study the problem of entity salience by proposing the design and implementation of SWAT, a system that identifies the salient Wikipedia entities occurring in an input document.…