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Recent studies have shown that multilingual pretrained language models can be effectively improved with cross-lingual alignment information from Wikipedia entities. However, existing methods only exploit entity information in pretraining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Ryokan Ri , Ikuya Yamada , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Entity Linking involves detecting and linking entity mentions in natural language texts to a knowledge graph. Traditional methods use a two-step process with separate models for entity recognition and disambiguation, which can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Daniel Vollmers , Hamada M. Zahera , Diego Moussallem , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Current machine translation models provide us with high-quality outputs in most scenarios. However, they still face some specific problems, such as detecting which entities should not be changed during translation. In this paper, we explore…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Dawid Wisniewski , Mikolaj Pokrywka , Zofia Rostek

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

Cross-lingual named-entity lexica are an important resource to multilingual NLP tasks such as machine translation and cross-lingual wikification. While knowledge bases contain a large number of entities in high-resource languages such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Ahmed El-Kishky , Adithya Renduchintala , James Cross , Francisco Guzmán , Philipp Koehn

Although over 100 languages are supported by strong off-the-shelf machine translation systems, only a subset of them possess large annotated corpora for named entity recognition. Motivated by this fact, we leverage machine translation to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Alankar Jain , Bhargavi Paranjape , Zachary C. Lipton

In spite of the remarkable advancements in the field of Natural Language Processing, the task of Entity Linking (EL) remains challenging in the field of humanities due to complex document typologies, lack of domain-specific datasets and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Cristian Santini , Sebastian Barzaghi , Paolo Sernani , Emanuele Frontoni , Mehwish Alam

Entity linking -- the task of identifying references in free text to relevant knowledge base representations -- often focuses on single languages. We consider multilingual entity linking, where a single model is trained to link references…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Elliot Schumacher , James Mayfield , Mark Dredze

Multilingual BERT (M-BERT) has been a huge success in both supervised and zero-shot cross-lingual transfer learning. However, this success has focused only on the top 104 languages in Wikipedia that it was trained on. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Zihan Wang , Karthikeyan K , Stephen Mayhew , Dan Roth

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) in conversations faces notable challenges in practical applications, primarily due to the scarcity of entity-annotated conversational datasets and sparse knowledge bases (KB) containing domain-specific, long-tail…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Mohanna Hoveyda , Arjen P. de Vries , Maarten de Rijke , Faegheh Hasibi

We present mGENRE, a sequence-to-sequence system for the Multilingual Entity Linking (MEL) problem -- the task of resolving language-specific mentions to a multilingual Knowledge Base (KB). For a mention in a given language, mGENRE predicts…

Cross-lingual Entity Linking (XEL), the problem of grounding mentions of entities in a foreign language text into an English knowledge base such as Wikipedia, has seen a lot of research in recent years, with a range of promising techniques.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Xingyu Fu , Weijia Shi , Xiaodong Yu , Zian Zhao , Dan Roth

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

Knowledge bases (KBs) are paramount in NLP. We employ multiview learning for increasing accuracy and coverage of entity type information in KBs. We rely on two metaviews: language and representation. For language, we consider high-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh , Hinrich Schütze

Our study delves into Multimodal Entity Linking, aligning the mention in multimodal information with entities in knowledge base. Existing methods are still facing challenges like ambiguous entity representations and limited image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Shezheng Song , Shasha Li , Jie Yu , Shan Zhao , Xiaopeng Li , Jun Ma , Xiaodong Liu , Zhuo Li , Xiaoguang Mao

In this paper, we describe the LIDIOMS data set, a multilingual RDF representation of idioms currently containing five languages: English, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian. The data set is intended to support natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Diego Moussallem , Mohamed Ahmed Sherif , Diego Esteves , Marcos Zampieri , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

The rapid evolution of Large Language Models' has underscored the need for evaluation frameworks that are globally applicable, flexible, and modular, and that support a wide range of tasks, model types, and linguistic settings. We introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Samridhi Raj Sinha , Rajvee Sheth , Abhishek Upperwal , Mayank Singh

Open source large language models (LLMs) have shown great improvements in recent times. However, many of these models are focused solely on popular spoken languages. We present a high quality dataset of more than 70k prompt-response pairs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Peter Devine

Understanding human's language requires complex world knowledge. However, existing large-scale knowledge graphs mainly focus on knowledge about entities while ignoring knowledge about activities, states, or events, which are used to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Hongming Zhang , Xin Liu , Haojie Pan , Yangqiu Song , Cane Wing-Ki Leung