The Second WePS challenge is coming up shortly...this is quite related to much of the work we've done with SenseClusters over the last few years (name discrimination...) so I hope to pull together a submission. The evaluation is in December....
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Second Web People Search Evaluation Workshop Call for Participation Finding information about people in the World Wide Web is one of the most common activities of Internet users. Person names, however, are highly ambiguous. In most cases, the results for a person name search are a mix of pages about different people sharing the same name. The user is then forced either to add terms to the query (probably losing recall and focusing on one single aspect of the person), or to browse every document in order to filter the information about the person he/she is actually looking for. In an ideal system the user would simply type a person name, and receive search results clustered according to the different people sharing that name. http://nlp.uned.es/weps/ -- Ted Pedersen http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse
