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Disambiguating Web Appearances Of People In A Social Network, Ron Bekkerman, Andrew Mccallum

Andrew McCallum

You are looking for information about a particular person. A search engine returns many pages for that person's name, but which pages are about the person you care about, and which are about other people who happen to have the same name? Furthermore, if we are looking for multiple people who are related in some way, how can we best leverage this social network? This paper presents two unsupervised frameworks for solving this problem: one based on link structure of the web pages, another using the recently introduced Bootstrapped Information Bottleneck (BIB) clustering method. To evaluate our methods, we collected …