Collecting University Rankings for Comparison Using Web Extraction and Entity Linking Techniques

@inproceedings{Bassiliades2014CollectingUR,
  title={Collecting University Rankings for Comparison Using Web Extraction and Entity Linking Techniques},
  author={Nick Bassiliades},
  booktitle={ICTERI},
  year={2014}
}
University rankings are rankings of institutions in higher education, ordered by combinations of factors. Rankings are conducted by various organizations, such as news media, websites, governments, academics and private corporations. Due to huge financial and other interests, the rankings of universities worldwide recently received increasing attention. The rankings are based on different criteria and collect data in various ways. As a result, there is a large divergence in the specific… Expand
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