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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

An Entity Linking system aligns the textual mentions of entities in a text to their corresponding entries in a knowledge base. However, deploying a neural entity linking system for efficient real-time inference in production environments is…

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

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

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

Cross-lingual entity linking (XEL) grounds named entities in a source language to an English Knowledge Base (KB), such as Wikipedia. XEL is challenging for most languages because of limited availability of requisite resources. However, much…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Shuyan Zhou , Shruti Rijhwani , Graham Neubig

This paper presents a novel approach to address the Entity Recognition and Linking Challenge at NLPCC 2015. The task involves extracting named entity mentions from short search queries and linking them to entities within a reference Chinese…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Di Lu , Zhongping Liang , Caixia Yuan , Xiaojie Wang

Entity disambiguation (ED) is the task of mapping an ambiguous entity mention to the corresponding entry in a structured knowledge base. Previous research showed that entity overshadowing is a significant challenge for existing ED models:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Vera Provatorova , Simone Tedeschi , Svitlana Vakulenko , Roberto Navigli , Evangelos Kanoulas

Name Entity Disambiguation is the Natural Language Processing task of identifying textual records corresponding to the same Named Entity, i.e. real-world entities represented as a list of attributes (names, places, organisations, etc.). In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Alessandro Basile , Riccardo Crupi , Michele Grasso , Alessandro Mercanti , Daniele Regoli , Simone Scarsi , Shuyi Yang , Andrea Cosentini

Entity resolution (ER) is the process of identifying records that refer to the same entities within one or across multiple databases. Numerous techniques have been developed to tackle ER challenges over the years, with recent emphasis…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-14 George Papadakis , Nishadi Kirielle , Peter Christen , Themis Palpanas

This article presents a novel approach to estimate semantic entity similarity using entity features available as Linked Data. The key idea is to exploit ranked lists of features, extracted from Linked Data sources, as a representation of…

Traditional information retrieval treats named entity recognition as a pre-indexing corpus annotation task, allowing entity tags to be indexed and used during search. Named entity taggers themselves are typically trained on thousands or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-14 John Foley , Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar , James Allan

Entity alignment (EA) aims to discover the equivalent entities in different knowledge graphs (KGs), which play an important role in knowledge engineering. Recently, EA with dangling entities has been proposed as a more realistic setting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jin Xu , Yangning Li , Xiangjin Xie , Yinghui Li , Niu Hu , Haitao Zheng , Yong Jiang

Entity Matching (EM), which aims to identify all entity pairs referring to the same real-world entity from relational tables, is one of the most important tasks in real-world data management systems. Due to the labeling process of EM being…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Xiaocan Zeng , Pengfei Wang , Yuren Mao , Lu Chen , Xiaoze Liu , Yunjun Gao

Entity matching is a critical challenge in data integration and cleaning, central to tasks like fuzzy joins and deduplication. Traditional approaches have focused on overcoming fuzzy term representations through methods such as edit…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Zezhou Huang

Discovering emerging entities (EEs) is the problem of finding entities before their establishment. These entities can be critical for individuals, companies, and governments. Many of these entities can be discovered on social media…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Shahin Yousefi , Mohsen Hooshmand , Mohsen Afsharchi

Local models have recently attained astounding performances in Entity Disambiguation (ED), with generative and extractive formulations being the most promising research directions. However, previous works limited their studies to using, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Luigi Procopio , Simone Conia , Edoardo Barba , Roberto Navigli

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

Multimodal Entity Linking (MEL) is a task that aims to link ambiguous mentions within multimodal contexts to referential entities in a multimodal knowledge base. Recent methods for MEL adopt a common framework: they first interact and fuse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shangyu Xing , Fei Zhao , Zhen Wu , Chunhui Li , Jianbing Zhang , Xinyu Dai

Named Entity Disambiaguation (NED) is a central task for applications dealing with natural language text. Assume that we have a graph based knowledge base (subsequently referred as Knowledge Graph) where nodes represent various real world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Sutanay Choudhury , Chase Dowling