CONSENTO: a consensus search engine for answering subjective queries

Search engines have become an important decision making tool today. Decision making queries are often subjective, such as "a good birthday present for my girlfriend", "best action movies in 2010", to name a few. Unfortunately, such queries may not be ...

We consider the problem of finding relevant named entities in response to a search query over a given text corpus. Entity search can readily be used to augment conventional web search engines for a variety of applications. We use entity concordance ...

Wikipedia is the largest user-generated knowledge base. We propose a structured query mechanism, entity-relationship query, for searching entities in Wikipedia corpus by their properties and inter-relationships. An entity-relationship query consists of ...