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Most research in reading comprehension has focused on answering questions based on individual documents or even single paragraphs. We introduce a neural model which integrates and reasons relying on information spread within documents and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Nicola De Cao , Wilker Aziz , Ivan Titov

Biomedical entity linking aims to map biomedical mentions, such as diseases and drugs, to standard entities in a given knowledge base. The specific challenge in this context is that the same biomedical entity can have a wide range of names,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Lihu Chen , Gaël Varoquaux , Fabian M. Suchanek

Linking biomedical entities is an essential aspect in biomedical natural language processing tasks, such as text mining and question answering. However, a difficulty of linking the biomedical entities using current large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Xi Yan , Cedric Möller , Ricardo Usbeck

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a core natural language processing task in which pre-trained language models have shown remarkable performance. However, standard benchmarks like CoNLL 2003 do not address many of the challenges that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Iker García-Ferrero , Jon Ander Campos , Oscar Sainz , Ander Salaberria , Dan Roth

Abstract. Cross-lingual knowledge alignment is the cornerstone in building a comprehensive knowledge graph (KG), which can benefit various knowledge-driven applications. As the structures of KGs are usually sparse, attributes of entities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Bo Chen , Jing Zhang , Xiaobin Tang , Hong Chen , Cuiping Li

We consider a joint information extraction (IE) model, solving named entity recognition, coreference resolution and relation extraction jointly over the whole document. In particular, we study how to inject information from a knowledge base…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Severine Verlinden , Klim Zaporojets , Johannes Deleu , Thomas Demeester , Chris Develder

Hashtags are semantico-syntactic constructs used across various social networking and microblogging platforms to enable users to start a topic specific discussion or classify a post into a desired category. Segmenting and linking the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-01-15 Piyush Bansal , Romil Bansal , Vasudeva Varma

Entity search, i.e., finding the most similar entities to a query entity, faces unique challenges in e-commerce, where product similarity varies across categories and contexts. Traditional embedding-based approaches often struggle to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yilun Zhu , Nikhita Vedula , Shervin Malmasi

We hypothesize that explicit integration of contextual information into an Multi-task Learning framework would emphasize the significance of context for boosting performance in jointly learning Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Relation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Paul Barry , Sam Henry , Meliha Yetisgen , Bridget McInnes , Ozlem Uzuner

In this research, we improve upon the current state of the art in entity retrieval by re-ranking the result list using graph embeddings. The paper shows that graph embeddings are useful for entity-oriented search tasks. We demonstrate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Emma J. Gerritse , Faegheh Hasibi , Arjen P. de Vries

Entity synonyms discovery is crucial for entity-leveraging applications. However, existing studies suffer from several critical issues: (1) the input mentions may be out-of-vocabulary (OOV) and may come from a different semantic space of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yiying Yang , Xi Yin , Haiqin Yang , Xingjian Fei , Hao Peng , Kaijie Zhou , Kunfeng Lai , Jianping Shen

In knowledge bases such as Wikidata, it is possible to assert a large set of properties for entities, ranging from generic ones such as name and place of birth to highly profession-specific or background-specific ones such as doctoral…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Simon Razniewski , Vevake Balaraman , Werner Nutt

We present an ensemble approach for categorizing search query entities in the recruitment domain. Understanding the types of entities expressed in a search query (Company, Skill, Job Title, etc.) enables more intelligent information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Walid Shalaby , Khalifeh Al Jadda , Mohammed Korayem , Trey Grainger

We introduce ReFinED, an efficient end-to-end entity linking model which uses fine-grained entity types and entity descriptions to perform linking. The model performs mention detection, fine-grained entity typing, and entity disambiguation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Tom Ayoola , Shubhi Tyagi , Joseph Fisher , Christos Christodoulopoulos , Andrea Pierleoni

End-to-end question answering using a differentiable knowledge graph is a promising technique that requires only weak supervision, produces interpretable results, and is fully differentiable. Previous implementations of this technique…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Priyanka Sen , Amir Saffari , Armin Oliya

Entity Linking (EL) seeks to align entity mentions in text to entries in a knowledge-base and is usually comprised of two phases: candidate generation and candidate ranking. While most methods focus on the latter, it is the candidate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Eleni Partalidou , Despina Christou , Grigorios Tsoumakas

Today, the practice of returning entities from a knowledge base in response to search queries has become widespread. One of the distinctive characteristics of entities is that they are typed, i.e., assigned to some hierarchically organized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Darío Garigliotti , Krisztian Balog

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 is a prominent thread of research focused on structured data creation by linking spans of text to an ontology or knowledge source. We revisit the use of structured prediction for entity linking which classifies each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hassan S. Shavarani , Anoop Sarkar

Specialized entity linking (EL) models are well-trained at mapping mentions to unique knowledge base (KB) entities according to a given context. However, specialized EL models struggle to disambiguate long-tail entities due to their limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amy Xin , Yunjia Qi , Zijun Yao , Fangwei Zhu , Kaisheng Zeng , Xu Bin , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li