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Entity Linking (EL), the task of mapping textual entity mentions to their corresponding entries in knowledge bases, constitutes a fundamental component of natural language understanding. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jiajun Hou , Chenyu Zhang , Rui Meng

In this work, we address the brand entity linking problem for e-commerce search queries. The entity linking task is done by either i)a two-stage process consisting of entity mention detection followed by entity disambiguation or ii) an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Dong Liu , Sreyashi Nag

Entity linking is the task of mapping potentially ambiguous terms in text to their constituent entities in a knowledge base like Wikipedia. This is useful for organizing content, extracting structured data from textual documents, and in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Michael Conover , Matthew Hayes , Scott Blackburn , Pete Skomoroch , Sam Shah

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 disambiguation, or mapping a phrase to its canonical representation in a knowledge base, is a fundamental step in many natural language processing applications. Existing techniques based on global ranking models fail to capture the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Tiep Mai , Bichen Shi , Patrick K. Nicholson , Deepak Ajwani , Alessandra Sala

This paper presents a novel approach to address the Entity Recognition and Linking Challenge at NLPCC 2015. The task involves extracting named entity mentions from short search queries and linking them to entities within a reference Chinese…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Di Lu , Zhongping Liang , Caixia Yuan , Xiaojie Wang

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

Entity linking (EL) is the process of linking entity mentions appearing in web text with their corresponding entities in a knowledge base. EL plays an important role in the fields of knowledge engineering and data mining, underlying a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Wei Shen , Yuhan Li , Yinan Liu , Jiawei Han , Jianyong Wang , Xiaojie Yuan

Many fundamental problems in natural language processing rely on determining what entities appear in a given text. Commonly referenced as entity linking, this step is a fundamental component of many NLP tasks such as text understanding,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Marina Ganea , Aurelien Lucchi , Carsten Eickhoff , Thomas Hofmann

We present a joint model for entity-level relation extraction from documents. In contrast to other approaches - which focus on local intra-sentence mention pairs and thus require annotations on mention level - our model operates on entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Markus Eberts , Adrian Ulges

Entity Linking in natural language processing seeks to match text entities to their corresponding entries in a dictionary or knowledge base. Traditional approaches rely on contextual models, which can be complex, hard to train, and have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yifan Ding , Amrit Poudel , Qingkai Zeng , Tim Weninger , Balaji Veeramani , Sanmitra Bhattacharya

Question Answering is a task which requires building models capable of providing answers to questions expressed in human language. Full question answering involves some form of reasoning ability. We introduce a neural network architecture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Andrea Madotto , Giuseppe Attardi

Community Question Answering (CQA) platforms contain plenty of CQA texts (i.e., questions and answers corresponding to the question) where named entities appear ubiquitously. In this paper, we define a new task of CQA entity linking (CQAEL)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yuhan Li , Wei Shen , Jianbo Gao , Yadong Wang

Medical entity linking is the task of identifying and standardizing medical concepts referred to in an unstructured text. Most of the existing methods adopt a three-step approach of (1) detecting mentions, (2) generating a list of candidate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Shikhar Vashishth , Denis Newman-Griffis , Rishabh Joshi , Ritam Dutt , Carolyn Rose

Machine understanding of user utterances in conversational systems is of utmost importance for enabling engaging and meaningful conversations with users. Entity Linking (EL) is one of the means of text understanding, with proven efficacy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Hideaki Joko , Faegheh Hasibi , Krisztian Balog , Arjen P. de Vries

We introduce the task of entity-centric query refinement. Given an input query whose answer is a (potentially large) collection of entities, the task output is a small set of query refinements meant to assist the user in efficient domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-19 David Wadden , Nikita Gupta , Kenton Lee , Kristina Toutanova

Statements about entities occur everywhere, from newspapers and web pages to structured databases. Correlating references to entities across systems that use different identifiers or names for them is a widespread problem. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-06-27 R. V. Guha

Entity linking (EL) is the computational process of connecting textual mentions to corresponding entities. Like many areas of natural language processing, the EL field has greatly benefited from deep learning, leading to significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Dominik Farhan

Similarities between entities occur frequently in many real-world scenarios. For over a century, researchers in different fields have proposed a range of approaches to measure the similarity between entities. More recently, inspired by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Giovanni Amendola , Marco Manna , Aldo Ricioppo

While the abundance of rich and vast datasets across numerous fields has facilitated the advancement of natural language processing, sectors in need of specialized data types continue to struggle with the challenge of finding quality data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Hyeonseok Kang , Hyein Seo , Jeesu Jung , Sangkeun Jung , Du-Seong Chang , Riwoo Chung