A Domain-Independent Multi-modifier Entity Search Method

Abstract

Entity search is a new search pattern that return related entities to users rather than amounts of web pages containing mass and messy information. It is also a challenging research topic because it is difficult to understand the meaning of users' input and identify the entities from the messy web pages. In this paper, we propose an entity search pattern based on online encyclopedias and define it as MMK search(Multi-modifier Search), which means the input text by people only includes one kernel concept and multiple modifiers. We propose a solution framework to solve this kind of search, and propose a method to identify expected entities based on well-utilized online encyclopedias. To evaluate the methods, we create an experimental data set and a baseline under the help of participants, the results verified the effectiveness of our methods.