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In many information extraction applications, entity linking (EL) has emerged as a crucial task that allows leveraging information about named entities from a knowledge base. In this paper, we address the task of multimodal entity linking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Omar Adjali , Romaric Besançon , Olivier Ferret , Herve Le Borgne , Brigitte Grau

Entity-linking is a natural-language-processing task that consists in identifying the entities mentioned in a piece of text, linking each to an appropriate item in some knowledge base; when the knowledge base is Wikipedia, the problem comes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-31 Roi Blanco , Paolo Boldi , Andrea Marino

The current state-of-the-art Entity Linking (EL) systems are geared towards corpora that are as heterogeneous as the Web, and therefore perform sub-optimally on domain-specific corpora. A key open problem is how to construct effective EL…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Alex Olieman , Jaap Kamps , Maarten Marx , Arjan Nusselder

Entity Linking is the task of matching a mention to an entity in a given knowledge base (KB). It contributes to annotating a massive amount of documents existing on the Web to harness new facts about their matched entities. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Hassan Soliman

We present JEL, a novel computationally efficient end-to-end multi-neural network based entity linking model, which beats current state-of-art model. Knowledge Graphs have emerged as a compelling abstraction for capturing critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Michael Kishelev , Pranab Bhadani , Wanying Ding , Vinay Chaudhri

Linking textual values in tabular data to their corresponding entities in a Knowledge Base is a core task across a variety of data integration and enrichment applications. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown State-of-The-Art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Carlo Bono , Federico Belotti , Matteo Palmonari

Entity detection and tracking (EDT) is the task of identifying textual mentions of real-world entities in documents, extending the named entity detection and coreference resolution task by considering mentions other than names (pronouns,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-07-07 Hal Daumé , Daniel Marcu

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

Existing work on Entity Linking mostly assumes that the reference knowledge base is complete, and therefore all mentions can be linked. In practice this is hardly ever the case, as knowledge bases are incomplete and because novel concepts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Nora Kassner , Fabio Petroni , Mikhail Plekhanov , Sebastian Riedel , Nicola Cancedda

Entity alignment (EA) aims to discover the equivalent entities in different knowledge graphs (KGs). It is a pivotal step for integrating KGs to increase knowledge coverage and quality. Recent years have witnessed a rapid increase of EA…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Weixin Zeng , Xiang Zhao , Jiuyang Tang , Xinyi Li , Minnan Luo , Qinghua Zheng

Entity Linking (EL) is the gateway into Knowledge Bases. Recent advances in EL utilize dense retrieval approaches for Candidate Generation, which addresses some of the shortcomings of the Lookup based approach of matching NER mentions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Liam Hebert , Raheleh Makki , Shubhanshu Mishra , Hamidreza Saghir , Anusha Kamath , Yuval Merhav

Entity linking aims to link ambiguous mentions to their corresponding entities in a knowledge base. One of the key challenges comes from insufficient labeled data for specific domains. Although dense retrievers have achieved excellent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Yulin Chen , Zhenran Xu , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang

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

Most NLP approaches to entity linking and coreference resolution focus on retrieving similar mentions using sparse or dense text representations. The common "Wikification" task, for instance, retrieves candidate Wikipedia articles for each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Ryan Muther , David Smith

Entity linking (EL) is the task of linking a textual mention to its corresponding entry in a knowledge base, and is critical for many knowledge-intensive NLP applications. When applied to tables in scientific papers, EL is a step toward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Yuze Lou , Bailey Kuehl , Erin Bransom , Sergey Feldman , Aakanksha Naik , Doug Downey

Biomedical entity linking (BEL) is the task of grounding entity mentions to a knowledge base. It plays a vital role in information extraction pipelines for the life sciences literature. We review recent work in the field and find that, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Samuele Garda , Leon Weber-Genzel , Robert Martin , Ulf Leser

In our continuously evolving world, entities change over time and new, previously non-existing or unknown, entities appear. We study how this evolutionary scenario impacts the performance on a well established entity linking (EL) task. For…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Klim Zaporojets , Lucie-Aimee Kaffee , Johannes Deleu , Thomas Demeester , Chris Develder , Isabelle Augenstein

Entity Coreference Resolution is the task of resolving all mentions in a document that refer to the same real world entity and is considered as one of the most difficult tasks in natural language understanding. It is of great importance for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Nikolaos Stylianou , Ioannis Vlahavas

Entity linking is the task of identifying mentions of entities in text, and linking them to entries in a knowledge base. This task is especially difficult in microblogs, as there is little additional text to provide disambiguating context;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Yi Yang , Ming-Wei Chang , Jacob Eisenstein

We present judgeWEL, a dataset for named entity recognition (NER) in Luxembourgish, automatically labelled and subsequently verified using large language models (LLM) in a novel pipeline. Building datasets for under-represented languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Alistair Plum , Laura Bernardy , Tharindu Ranasinghe