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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

We present a simple yet effective approach for linking entities in queries. The key idea is to search sentences similar to a query from Wikipedia articles and directly use the human-annotated entities in the similar sentences as candidate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Chuanqi Tan , Furu Wei , Pengjie Ren , Weifeng Lv , Ming Zhou

Word embeddings have gained significant attention as learnable representations of semantic relations between words, and have been shown to improve upon the results of traditional word representations. However, little effort has been devoted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Gloria Feher , Andreas Spitz , Michael Gertz

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has huge impact on our daily lives with applications such as voice assistants, facial recognition, chatbots, autonomously driving cars, etc. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a cross-discipline of AI and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Klim Zaporojets

Table retrieval is essential for accessing information stored in structured tabular formats; however, it remains less explored than text retrieval. The content of the table primarily consists of phrases and words, which include a large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Da Li , Keping Bi , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

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 (EL) is the task of automatically identifying entity mentions in text and resolving them to a corresponding entity in a reference knowledge base like Wikipedia. Throughout the past decade, a plethora of EL systems and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Renato Stoffalette João , Pavlos Fafalios , Stefan Dietze

This paper introduces a named entity recognition approach in textual corpus. This Named Entity (NE) can be a named: location, person, organization, date, time, etc., characterized by instances. A NE is found in texts accompanied by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-03-01 Wahiba Ben Abdessalem Karaa

The co-occurrence association is widely observed in many empirical data. Mining the information in co-occurrence data is essential for advancing our understanding of systems such as social networks, ecosystem, and brain network. Measuring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Xiaomeng Wang , Yijun Ran , Tao Jia

Named entities in text documents are the names of people, organization, location or other types of objects in the documents that exist in the real world. A persisting research challenge is to use computational techniques to identify such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Abdulkareem Alsudais , Hovig Tchalian

Entity Linking (EL) is the task of automatically identifying entity mentions in a piece of text and resolving them to a corresponding entity in a reference knowledge base like Wikipedia. There is a large number of EL tools available for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Renato Stoffalette João , Pavlos Fafalios , Stefan Dietze

Entity linking is the task of aligning mentions to corresponding entities in a given knowledge base. Previous studies have highlighted the necessity for entity linking systems to capture the global coherence. However, there are two common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Zheng Fang , Yanan Cao , Dongjie Zhang , Qian Li , Zhenyu Zhang , Yanbing Liu

Existing state of the art neural entity linking models employ attention-based bag-of-words context model and pre-trained entity embeddings bootstrapped from word embeddings to assess topic level context compatibility. However, the latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Shuang Chen , Jinpeng Wang , Feng Jiang , Chin-Yew Lin

Learned vector representations of words are useful tools for many information retrieval and natural language processing tasks due to their ability to capture lexical semantics. However, while many such tasks involve or even rely on named…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Satya Almasian , Andreas Spitz , Michael Gertz

In document-level relation extraction, entities may appear multiple times in a document, and their relationships can shift from one context to another. Accurate prediction of the relationship between two entities across an entire document…

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Extracting useful signals or pattern to support important business decisions for example analyzing investment product traction and discovering customer preference, risk monitoring etc. from unstructured text is a challenging task. Capturing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Anshika Rawal , Abhijeet Kumar , Mridul Mishra

We present a novel way of injecting factual knowledge about entities into the pretrained BERT model (Devlin et al., 2019): We align Wikipedia2Vec entity vectors (Yamada et al., 2016) with BERT's native wordpiece vector space and use the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Nina Poerner , Ulli Waltinger , Hinrich Schütze

A major challenge in Entity Linking (EL) is making effective use of contextual information to disambiguate mentions to Wikipedia that might refer to different entities in different contexts. The problem exacerbates with cross-lingual EL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Avirup Sil , Gourab Kundu , Radu Florian , Wael Hamza

Entity resolution is a widely studied problem with several proposals to match records across relations. Matching textual content is a widespread task in many applications, such as question answering and search. While recent methods achieve…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Naser Ahmadi , Hansjorg Sand , Paolo Papotti

We suggest a model for metaphor interpretation using word embeddings trained over a relatively large corpus. Our system handles nominal metaphors, like "time is money". It generates a ranked list of potential interpretations of given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Kfir Bar , Nachum Dershowitz , Lena Dankin