The Web People Search task , as defined in the first WePS evaluation campaign ( Artiles et al. , 2007 ) , consists of grouping search results for a given name according to the different people that share it .
the semeval2007 weps evaluation establishing a benchmark for the web people search task
Javier Artiles Julio Gonzalo Satoshi Sekine
In some cases , the existence of a predominant person ( such as a celebrity or a historical figure ) makes it likely to dominate the ranking of search results , complicating the task of finding information about other people sharing her name . The Web People Search task , as defined in the first WePS evaluation campaign ( Artiles et al. , 2007 ) , consists of grouping search results for a given name according to the different people that share it . Our goal in this paper is to study which document features can contribute to this task , and in particular to find out which is the role that can be played by named entities ( NEs ) : ( i ) How reliable is NEs overlap between documents as a source of evidence to cluster pages ?
The Web People Search task , as defined in the first WePS evaluation campaign ( @@CITATION ) , consists of grouping search results for a given name according to the different people that share it .