In this paper we describe WEST (Web Entity Search Technologies) system that we have developed to improve people search over the Internet. Recently the problem of Web People Search (WePS) has attracted significant attention from both the industry and academia. In the classic formulation of WePS problem the user issues a query to a web search engine that consists of a name of a person of interest. For such a query, a traditional search engine such as Yahoo or Google would return webpages that are related to any people who happened to have the queried name. The goal of WePS, instead, is to output a set of clusters of webpages, one cluster per each distinct person, containing all of the webpages related to that person. The user then can locate the desired cluster and explore the webpages it contains.
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机译：在本文中，我们描述了我们开发的WEST（Web实体搜索技术）系统，以改善人们在Internet上的搜索。最近，Web People Search（WePS）的问题已引起业界和学术界的极大关注。在经典的WePS问题表述中，用户向Web搜索引擎发出查询，该查询由感兴趣的人的名字组成。对于这种查询，传统的搜索引擎（例如Yahoo或Google）将返回与碰巧拥有查询名称的任何人相关的网页。相反，WePS的目标是输出一组网页集群，每个不同的人一个集群，包含与该人相关的所有网页。然后，用户可以找到所需的群集并浏览其中包含的网页。
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