The News People Search Task at EVALITA 2011: Evaluating Cross-document Coreference Resolution of Named Person Entities in Italian News

This paper describes the News People Search (NePS) Task organized as part of EVALITA 2011. The NePS Task aims at evaluating cross-document coreference resolution of person entities in Italian news and consists of clustering a set of Italian newspaper articles that mention a person name according to the different people sharing that name. The motivation behind the task, the dataset used for the evaluation and the results obtained are described and discussed.