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InfoScout: An Interactive, Entity Centric, Person Search Tool

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SIGIR '16: Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2911451.2911468

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Individuals living in highly networked societies publish a large amount of personal, and potentially sensitive, information online. Web investigators can exploit such information for a variety of purposes, such as in background vetting and fraud detection. However, such investigations require a large number of expensive man hours and human effort. This paper describes InfoScout, a search tool which is intended to reduce the time it takes to identify and gather subject centric information on the Web. InfoScout collects relevance feedback information from the investigator in order to re-rank search results, allowing the intended information to be discovered more quickly. Users may still direct their search as they see fit, issuing ad-hoc queries and filtering existing results by keywords. Design choices are informed by prior work and industry collaboration.

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InfoScout: An Interactive, Entity Centric, Person Search Tool
1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval

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SIGIR '16: Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

July 2016

1296 pages

ISBN:9781450340694

DOI:10.1145/2911451

General Chairs:
Raffaele Perego
ISTI-CNR, Italy
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Fabrizio Sebastiani
Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar
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Program Chairs:
Javed Aslam
Northeastern University, US
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Ian Ruthven
University of Strathclyde, UK
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Justin Zobel
University of Melbourne, Australia

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Kejriwal M(2020)Domain-Specific Search Engines for Investigating Human Trafficking and Other Illicit ActivitiesEncyclopedia of Criminal Activities and the Deep Web10.4018/978-1-5225-9715-5.ch033(478-496)Online publication date: 2020
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9715-5.ch033
Evangelista JSassi RRomero MNapolitano D(2020)Systematic Literature Review to Investigate the Application of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) with Artificial IntelligenceJournal of Applied Security Research10.1080/19361610.2020.176173716:3(345-369)Online publication date: 7-May-2020
https://doi.org/10.1080/19361610.2020.1761737
Spitz AAlmasian SGertz MBarrett RCummings RAgichtein EGabrilovich E(2017)EVELINProceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion10.1145/3041021.3054721(273-277)Online publication date: 3-Apr-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3041021.3054721

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