This open access book covers all facets of entity-oriented search—where “search” can be interpreted in the broadest sense of information access—from a unified point of view, and provides a coherent and comprehensive overview of the state of the art. It represents the first synthesis of research in this broad and rapidly developing area. Selected topics are discussed in-depth, the goal b…
Companies frequently face the challenge of screening the continuously increasingnumber of (Web) documents and assessing the contained information with respectto its relevance and novelty. For instance, technology scouts need to discover andmonitor new technologies, while investors and stock brokers would like to beinformed about recent acquisitions. The systems that have been developed so farfo…
Invisible Search and Online Search Engines considers the use of search engines in contemporary everyday life and the challenges this poses for media and information literacy. Looking for mediated information is mostly done online and arbitrated by the various tools and devices that people carry with them on a daily basis. Because of this, search engines have a significant impact on the structur…