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Entity linking (EL) is the task of disambiguating mentions in text by associating them with entries in a predefined database of mentions (persons, organizations, etc). Most previous EL research has focused mainly on one language, English,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Avirup Sil , Radu Florian

Forms are a widespread type of template-based document used in a great variety of fields including, among others, administration, medicine, finance, or insurance. The automatic extraction of the information included in these documents is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 María Villota , César Domínguez , Jónathan Heras , Eloy Mata , Vico Pascual

Entity typing aims at predicting one or more words that describe the type(s) of a specific mention in a sentence. Due to shortcuts from surface patterns to annotated entity labels and biased training, existing entity typing models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Nan Xu , Fei Wang , Bangzheng Li , Mingtao Dong , Muhao Chen

Disease name recognition and normalization, which is generally called biomedical entity linking, is a fundamental process in biomedical text mining. Recently, neural joint learning of both tasks has been proposed to utilize the mutual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Shogo Ujiie , Hayate Iso , Shuntaro Yada , Shoko Wakamiya , Eiji Aramaki

Measuring entity relatedness is a fundamental task for many natural language processing and information retrieval applications. Prior work often studies entity relatedness in static settings and an unsupervised manner. However, entities in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Tu Nguyen , Tuan Tran , Wolfgang Nejdl

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

Entity linking (EL) is the process of linking entity mentions appearing in text with their corresponding entities in a knowledge base. EL features of entities (e.g., prior probability, relatedness score, and entity embedding) are usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Chenwei Ran , Wei Shen , Jianbo Gao , Yuhan Li , Jianyong Wang , Yantao Jia

Entity embeddings, which represent different aspects of each entity with a single vector like word embeddings, are a key component of neural entity linking models. Existing entity embeddings are learned from canonical Wikipedia articles and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Feng Hou , Ruili Wang , Jun He , Yi Zhou

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

Recent work in learning vector-space embeddings for multi-relational data has focused on combining relational information derived from knowledge bases with distributional information derived from large text corpora. We propose a simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Teng Long , Ryan Lowe , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung , Doina Precup

Extracting biomedical relations from large corpora of scientific documents is a challenging natural language processing task. Existing approaches usually focus on identifying a relation either in a single sentence (mention-level) or across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Harshil Shah , Julien Fauqueur

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

Neural language models (LM) trained on diverse corpora are known to work well on previously seen entities, however, updating these models with dynamically changing entities such as place names, song titles and shopping items requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Ravi Teja Gadde , Ivan Bulyko

Contextual word representations, typically trained on unstructured, unlabeled text, do not contain any explicit grounding to real world entities and are often unable to remember facts about those entities. We propose a general method to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Matthew E. Peters , Mark Neumann , Robert L. Logan , Roy Schwartz , Vidur Joshi , Sameer Singh , Noah A. Smith

Document-level relation extraction aims to discover relations between entities across a whole document. How to build the dependency of entities from different sentences in a document remains to be a great challenge. Current approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Jiaxin Pan , Min Peng , Yiyan Zhang

Biomedical entity linking maps textual mentions to concepts in structured knowledge bases such as UMLS or SNOMED CT. Most existing systems link each mention independently, using only the mention or its surrounding sentence. This ignores…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Adam Remaki , Xavier Tannier , Christel Gérardin

To study social, economic, and historical questions, researchers in the social sciences and humanities have started to use increasingly large unstructured textual datasets. While recent advances in NLP provide many tools to efficiently…

Previous work has shown promising results in performing entity linking by measuring not only the affinities between mentions and entities but also those amongst mentions. In this paper, we present novel training and inference procedures…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Dhruv Agarwal , Rico Angell , Nicholas Monath , Andrew McCallum

Entity matching is the problem of identifying which records refer to the same real-world entity. It has been actively researched for decades, and a variety of different approaches have been developed. Even today, it remains a challenging…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Nils Barlaug , Jon Atle Gulla

This paper introduces a new model that uses named entity recognition, coreference resolution, and entity linking techniques, to approach the task of linking people entities on Wikipedia people pages to their corresponding Wikipedia pages if…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Weiqian Yan , Kanchan Khurad