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Databases and Information Systems

STICS

Still searching with keywords? "STICS: Searching with Strings, Things, and Cats" is a news search engine based on AIDA technology, which enables search for all entities and categories known to YAGO!

Learn more about it in our SIGIR publication linked below or try it out for yourself!

AESTHETICS Analytics Demo

The AESTHETICS entity analytics engine enables analysis such as:

  • Environmental organizations and power companies in European news
  • Ukraine, Crimea, Putin, and Obama - select an entity in the left pane under Co-occurrence to see the co-occurrence stats

Publications

  • A. Schmidt, J. Hoffart, D. Milchevski, and G. Weikum.
    Context-Sensitive Auto-Completion for Searching with Entities and Categories.
    Demo at SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy 2016.
  • J. Hoffart, D. Milchevski, and G. Weikum,
    STICS: Searching with Strings, Things, and Cats.
    Demo at SIGIR 2014, Gold Coast, Australia, 2014.
    PDF
  • J. Hoffart, D. Milchevski, and G. Weikum, 
    AESTHETICS: Analytics with Strings, Things, and Cats.
    Demo at CIKM 2014, Shanghai, China, 2014. 
    PDF