PersonFinder

Alice Bonhomme-BlaisRoss Heflin

Chen Li and his UCI studentsWill Robinson

Need to share data

Merged data

Looking for Paul I found him!

Full-Text Search

• Current PF only searches on name.• New feature allows search on all attributes

o nameo descriptiono ...

• Approacho Modify existing PF codebase o Store inverted lists as objects in the backend data storeo Retrieve the inverted list for each keyword, and intersect

them

[Fulltext search demo]

Twitter interface

• PersonFinder's search interface: beautifully narrow.• No need to tie users to the web.• Twitter shows up...

o ...in the streets in Iran...o ...under rubble in Haiti...o ...everywhere.

Vision: "@personfinder John Doe" "@worriedmom 1 entry found in Haiti http://bit.ly/xyz"

[Twitter interface demo]