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The most important work that takes the center stage in the Entity Ranking track of INEX is proper query formation. Both the subtasks, namely Entity Ranking and List Completion, would immensely benefit if the given query can be expanded with more relevant terms, thereby improving the efficiency of the search engine. This paper stresses on the correct identification of “Meaningful n-grams” from the given title and proper selection of the “Prominent n-grams” among them as the utmost important task that improves query formation and hence improves the efficiencies of the overall Entity Ranking tasks. We also exploit the Initial Descriptions (IDES) of the Wikipedia articles for ranking the retrieved answers based on their similarities with the given topic. List completion task is further aided by the related Wikipedia articles that boosted the score of retrieved answers.
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Murugeshan, M.S., Mukherjee, S. (2008). An n-Gram and Initial Description Based Approach for Entity Ranking Track. In: Fuhr, N., Kamps, J., Lalmas, M., Trotman, A. (eds) Focused Access to XML Documents. INEX 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4862. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85902-4_26
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