Assigning location information to display individuals on a map for web people search results. (English)
Lee, Gary Geunbae (ed.) et al., Information retrieval technology. 5th Asia information retrieval symposium, AIRS 2009, Sapporo, Japan, October 21‒23, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-04768-8/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5839, 26-37 (2009).
Summary: Distinguishing people with identical names is becoming more and more important in Web search. This research aims to display person icons on a map to help users select person clusters that are separated into different people from the result of person searches on the Web. We propose a method to assign person clusters with one piece of location information. Our method is comprised of two processes: (a) extracting location candidates from Web pages and (b) assigning location information using a local search engine. Our main idea exploits search engine rankings and character distance to obtain good location information among location candidates. Experimental results revealed the usefulness of our proposed method. We also show a developed prototype system.