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InfoScout: An interactive, entity centric, person search tool.
  Individuals living in highly networked societies publish a large amount of personal, and potentially sensitive, information online. Web investigators can exploit such information for a variety of purposes, such as in background vetting and fraud detection. However, such investigations require a large number of expensive man hours and human effort. This paper describes InfoScout, a search tool which is intended to reduce the time it takes to identify and gather subject centric information on the Web. InfoScout collects relevance feedback information from the investigator in order to rerank search results, allowing the intended information to be discovered more quickly. Users may still direct their search as they see fit, issuing ad-hoc queries and filtering existing results by keywords. Design choices are informed by prior work and industry collaboration.

  • Date:

    07 July 2016

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    Association for Computing Machinery

  • DOI:

    10.1145/2911451.2911468

  • Library of Congress:

    QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    004 Data processing & computer science

Citation

McKeown, S., Buivys, M., & Azzopardi, L. (2016). InfoScout: An interactive, entity centric, person search tool. In SIGIR '16 Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, (1113-1116). https://doi.org/10.1145/2911451.2911468

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Keywords

Web Investigation; Open-Source Intelligence; People Searching; Professional Search; Entity Search

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