Finding Entities in Wikipedia Using Links and Categories

Finding Entities in Wikipedia Using Links and Categories - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2009, written by Rianne Kaptein and Jaap Kamps.

Overview

In this paper authors describe participation in the INEX Entity Ranking track. Authors explored the relations between Wikipedia pages, categories and links. Authors approach is to exploit both category and link information. Category information is used by calculating distances between document categories and target categories. Link information is used for relevance propagation and in the form of a document link prior. Both sources of information have value, but using category information leads to the biggest improvements.