JointSem: Combining Query Entity Linking and Entity based Document Ranking

Published in Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017), 2017

Paper | Project Page This work presents JointSem, a joint semantic ranking system that combines query entity linking and entity-based document ranking. In JointSem, the spooing and linking signals are used to describe the importance of candidate entities in the query, and the linked entities are utilized to provide additional ranking features for the documents.