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Entity Linking (EL) is an essential task for semantic text understanding and information extraction. Popular methods separately address the Mention Detection (MD) and Entity Disambiguation (ED) stages of EL, without leveraging their mutual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Nikolaos Kolitsas , Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Thomas Hofmann

Entity Linking aims to link entity mentions in texts to knowledge bases, and neural models have achieved recent success in this task. However, most existing methods rely on local contexts to resolve entities independently, which may usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Yixin Cao , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Zhiyuan Liu

Entity-linking is a natural-language-processing task that consists in identifying the entities mentioned in a piece of text, linking each to an appropriate item in some knowledge base; when the knowledge base is Wikipedia, the problem comes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-31 Roi Blanco , Paolo Boldi , Andrea Marino

Entity Linking is one of the essential tasks of information extraction and natural language understanding. Entity linking mainly consists of two tasks: recognition and disambiguation of named entities. Most studies address these two tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Majid Asgari-Bidhendi , Behrooz Janfada , Amir Havangi , Sayyed Ali Hossayni , Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli

This survey presents a comprehensive description of recent neural entity linking (EL) systems developed since 2015 as a result of the "deep learning revolution" in natural language processing. Its goal is to systemize design features of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Ozge Sevgili , Artem Shelmanov , Mikhail Arkhipov , Alexander Panchenko , Chris Biemann

In this work, we present a web application named DBLPLink, which performs entity linking over the DBLP scholarly knowledge graph. DBLPLink uses text-to-text pre-trained language models, such as T5, to produce entity label spans from an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Debayan Banerjee , Arefa , Ricardo Usbeck , Chris Biemann

Entity linking is an important step towards constructing knowledge graphs that facilitate advanced question answering over scientific documents, including the retrieval of relevant information included in tables within these documents. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Varish Mulwad , Tim Finin , Vijay S. Kumar , Jenny Weisenberg Williams , Sharad Dixit , Anupam Joshi

The web contains countless semi-structured websites, which can be a rich source of information for populating knowledge bases. Existing methods for extracting relations from the DOM trees of semi-structured webpages can achieve high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Colin Lockard , Xin Luna Dong , Arash Einolghozati , Prashant Shiralkar

Named Entity Disambiguation (NED) is the task of linking a named-entity mention to an instance in a knowledge-base, typically Wikipedia. This task is closely related to word-sense disambiguation (WSD), where the supervised word-expert…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Angel X. Chang , Valentin I. Spitkovsky , Christopher D. Manning , Eneko Agirre

A major challenge in Entity Linking (EL) is making effective use of contextual information to disambiguate mentions to Wikipedia that might refer to different entities in different contexts. The problem exacerbates with cross-lingual EL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Avirup Sil , Gourab Kundu , Radu Florian , Wael Hamza

Multimodal Entity Linking (MEL) which aims at linking mentions with multimodal contexts to the referent entities from a knowledge base (e.g., Wikipedia), is an essential task for many multimodal applications. Although much attention has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Xuwu Wang , Junfeng Tian , Min Gui , Zhixu Li , Rui Wang , Ming Yan , Lihan Chen , Yanghua Xiao

Accurate entity linkers have been produced for domains and languages where annotated data (i.e., texts linked to a knowledge base) is available. However, little progress has been made for the settings where no or very limited amounts of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Phong Le , Ivan Titov

Entity disambiguation (ED) is the last step of entity linking (EL), when candidate entities are reranked according to the context they appear in. All datasets for training and evaluating models for EL consist of convenience samples, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Vera Provatorova , Svitlana Vakulenko , Samarth Bhargav , Evangelos Kanoulas

Named entity linking (NEL) in news is a challenging endeavour due to the frequency of unseen and emerging entities, which necessitates the use of unsupervised or zero-shot methods. However, such methods tend to come with caveats, such as no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Marko Čuljak , Andreas Spitz , Robert West , Akhil Arora

Knowledge about entities and their interrelations is a crucial factor of success for tasks like question answering or text summarization. Publicly available knowledge graphs like Wikidata or DBpedia are, however, far from being complete. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Nicolas Heist , Heiko Paulheim

Entity linking (EL) is the task of linking entity mentions in a document to referent entities in a knowledge base (KB). Many previous studies focus on Wikipedia-derived KBs. There is little work on EL over Wikidata, even though it is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Tuan Manh Lai , Heng Ji , ChengXiang Zhai

Entity alignment, aiming to identify equivalent entities across different knowledge graphs (KGs), is a fundamental problem for constructing large-scale KGs. Over the course of its development, supervision has been considered necessary for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Xiao Liu , Haoyun Hong , Xinghao Wang , Zeyi Chen , Evgeny Kharlamov , Yuxiao Dong , Jie Tang

Understanding the meaning of text often involves reasoning about entities and their relationships. This requires identifying textual mentions of entities, linking them to a canonical concept, and discerning their relationships. These tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Trapit Bansal , Pat Verga , Neha Choudhary , Andrew McCallum

Distant supervision uses triple facts in knowledge graphs to label a corpus for relation extraction, leading to wrong labeling and long-tail problems. Some works use the hierarchy of relations for knowledge transfer to long-tail relations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Yang Li , Guodong Long , Tao Shen , Jing Jiang

Entity disambiguation (ED), which links the mentions of ambiguous entities to their referent entities in a knowledge base, serves as a core component in entity linking (EL). Existing generative approaches demonstrate improved accuracy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Junxiong Wang , Ali Mousavi , Omar Attia , Ronak Pradeep , Saloni Potdar , Alexander M. Rush , Umar Farooq Minhas , Yunyao Li