Autovita: a 360 degree view of Person Information on theWWW


Abstract:

Search for a person over the WWW, is usually targeted to find personal information or to get a comprehensive overview of his/her web presence. Since, current day search engines still treat any search query as keywords, they fail to provide a comprehensive and quick summary for person related searches, instead returning a huge list of keyword based matching documents. It is largely left to the user to decide which page he is interested in and also comprehend and analyze the bits and pieces of information redundantly and sparsely distributed across various documents. In this paper, we discuss our system Autovita which mines person information from the web to provide a comprehensive and non-redundant summary for different dimensions of interest like background information, finance issues, colleague information etc. Such a 360 degree view for a person related search helps in quick identification and analysis of a person’s web presence.