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Finer Grained Entity Typing with TypeNet

Computation and Language 2017-11-17 v1 Neural and Evolutionary Computing

Abstract

We consider the challenging problem of entity typing over an extremely fine grained set of types, wherein a single mention or entity can have many simultaneous and often hierarchically-structured types. Despite the importance of the problem, there is a relative lack of resources in the form of fine-grained, deep type hierarchies aligned to existing knowledge bases. In response, we introduce TypeNet, a dataset of entity types consisting of over 1941 types organized in a hierarchy, obtained by manually annotating a mapping from 1081 Freebase types to WordNet. We also experiment with several models comparable to state-of-the-art systems and explore techniques to incorporate a structure loss on the hierarchy with the standard mention typing loss, as a first step towards future research on this dataset.

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@article{arxiv.1711.05795,
  title  = {Finer Grained Entity Typing with TypeNet},
  author = {Shikhar Murty and Patrick Verga and Luke Vilnis and Andrew McCallum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.05795},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Accepted at 6th Workshop on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC) at NIPS 2017

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