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Corpus-level Fine-grained Entity Typing Using Contextual Information

Computation and Language 2016-06-28 v1

Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of corpus-level entity typing, i.e., inferring from a large corpus that an entity is a member of a class such as "food" or "artist". The application of entity typing we are interested in is knowledge base completion, specifically, to learn which classes an entity is a member of. We propose FIGMENT to tackle this problem. FIGMENT is embedding-based and combines (i) a global model that scores based on aggregated contextual information of an entity and (ii) a context model that first scores the individual occurrences of an entity and then aggregates the scores. In our evaluation, FIGMENT strongly outperforms an approach to entity typing that relies on relations obtained by an open information extraction system.

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@article{arxiv.1606.07901,
  title  = {Corpus-level Fine-grained Entity Typing Using Contextual Information},
  author = {Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh and Hinrich Schütze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.07901},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Accepted at EMNLP2015, Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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