Entity Search: Finding Stuff on the Web, Directly and Holistically
                Kevin Chang, University of Illinois

What have you been searching lately?

With so much data on the Web, we often search for various "stuff"
(e.g., a phone number, a paper, a name, a date)-- but current search
engines take us only to pages, *indirectly*.  With the scale of the
Web, the stuff that we are looking for usually appears in many pages--
but current engines find us only each page, *individually*.  Toward
searching directly and holistically, the WISDM project at Illinois is
building a new search system for finding our target "entities." For
such entity search, I will motivate its query semantics, develop the
search mechanism, and demonstrate the current prototype in several
real-world application scenarios.