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Rich entity representations are useful for a wide class of problems involving entities. Despite their importance, there is no standardized benchmark that evaluates the overall quality of entity representations. In this work, we propose…

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Dynamic web applications such as mashups need efficient access to web data that is only accessible via entity search engines (e.g. product or publication search engines). However, most current mashup systems and applications only support…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-03-24 Stefan Endrullis , Andreas Thor , Erhard Rahm

Recognizing similarities among entities is central to both human cognition and computational intelligence. Within this broader landscape, Entity Set Expansion is one prominent task aimed at taking an initial set of (tuples of) entities and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Giovanni Amendola , Pietro Cofone , Marco Manna , Aldo Ricioppo

We provide a user-friendly, flexible, and lightweight open-source HCI toolkit (github.com/QButterfly) that allows non-tech-savvy researchers to conduct online user interaction studies using the widespread Qualtrics and LimeSurvey platforms.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Nico Ebert , Björn Scheppler , Kurt Ackermann , Tim Geppert

Filtering relevant documents with respect to entities is an essential task in the context of knowledge base construction and maintenance. It entails processing a time-ordered stream of documents that might be relevant to an entity in order…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Ridho Reinanda , Edgar Meij , Maarten de Rijke

Entity representations are useful in natural language tasks involving entities. In this paper, we propose new pretrained contextualized representations of words and entities based on the bidirectional transformer. The proposed model treats…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Ikuya Yamada , Akari Asai , Hiroyuki Shindo , Hideaki Takeda , Yuji Matsumoto

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable adaptability across domains, these models often fall short in structured knowledge extraction tasks such as named entity recognition (NER). This paper explores an innovative,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yuzhao Heng , Chunyuan Deng , Yitong Li , Yue Yu , Yinghao Li , Rongzhi Zhang , Chao Zhang

Automation of existing Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) is important but hard to achieve. Upstream of making the GUI user-accessible or somehow scriptable, even the data-collection to understand the original interface poses significant…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Iason Chaimalas , Arnas Vyšniauskas , Gabriel Brostow

External knowledge,e.g., entities and entity descriptions, can help humans understand texts. Many works have been explored to include external knowledge in the pre-trained models. These methods, generally, design pre-training tasks and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Qinghua Zhao , Shuai Ma , Yuxuan Lei

The automatic verbalization of structured knowledge is a key task for making knowledge graphs accessible to non-expert users and supporting retrieval-augmented generation systems. Although recent advances in Data-to-Text generation have…

Open-domain real-world entity recognition is essential yet challenging, involving identifying various entities in diverse environments. The lack of a suitable evaluation dataset has been a major obstacle in this field due to the vast number…

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Vast amounts of human communication occurs online. These digital traces of natural human communication along with recent advances in natural language processing technology provide for computational analysis of these discussions. In the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Nicholas Botzer , Tim Weninger

Understanding a long document requires tracking how entities are introduced and evolve over time. We present a new type of language model, EntityNLM, that can explicitly model entities, dynamically update their representations, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Yangfeng Ji , Chenhao Tan , Sebastian Martschat , Yejin Choi , Noah A. Smith

Eliciting information to reduce uncertainty about a latent entity is a critical task in many application domains, e.g., assessing individual student learning outcomes, diagnosing underlying diseases, or learning user preferences. Though…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Jimmy Wang , Thomas Zollo , Richard Zemel , Hongseok Namkoong

Entity extraction is an important task in text mining and natural language processing. A popular method for entity extraction is by comparing substrings from free text against a dictionary of entities. In this paper, we present several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Zeyi Wen , Zeyu Huang , Rui Zhang

Several initiatives have been undertaken to conceptually model the domain of scholarly data using ontologies and to create respective Knowledge Graphs. Yet, the full potential seems unleashed, as automated means for automatic population of…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Nandana Mihindukulasooriya , Sanju Tiwari , Daniil Dobriy , Finn Årup Nielsen , Tek Raj Chhetri , Axel Polleres

Entity Set Expansion (ESE) is a critical task aiming at expanding entities of the target semantic class described by seed entities. Most existing ESE methods are retrieval-based frameworks that need to extract contextual features of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shulin Huang , Shirong Ma , Yangning Li , Yinghui Li , Hai-Tao Zheng

Nowadays, the development of Web applications supporting distributed user interfaces (DUI) is straightforward. However, it is still hard to find Web sites supporting this kind of user interaction. Although studies on this field have…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Sergio Firmenich , Gabriela Bosetti , Gustavo Rossi , Marco Winckler , José María Corletto

In tasks like question answering or text summarisation, it is essential to have background knowledge about the relevant entities. The information about entities - in particular, about long-tail or emerging entities - in publicly available…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Nicolas Heist , Heiko Paulheim

We have developed a set of Python applications that use large language models to identify and analyze data from social media platforms relevant to a population of interest. Our pipeline begins with using OpenAI's GPT-3 to generate potential…

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