Entity Recognition and Disambiguation Challenge Workshop

With the emerging focus of search engines on semantic search, there is a growing need to understand queries and documents not only syntactically, but semantically as well. Over the recent years, major search engines have redesigned their search results to accommodate some semantic information, particularly recognized entities in queries and search results. Recent information retrieval studies in SIGIR have also paid significant amount of attention on entity-related research. However, techniques for accurate entity recognition and disambiguation are still far from perfect. The motivation of the workshop is to advance the state of the art on entity recognition and disambiguation for both long and short web documents.