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Fine-grained entity typing (FET), which assigns entities in text with context-sensitive, fine-grained semantic types, is a basic but important task for knowledge extraction from unstructured text. FET has been studied extensively in natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Tanay Komarlu , Minhao Jiang , Xuan Wang , Jiawei Han

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

Entity Linking (EL) is the task of detecting mentions of entities in text and disambiguating them to a reference knowledge base. Most prevalent EL approaches assume that the reference knowledge base is complete. In practice, however, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Nicolas Heist , Heiko Paulheim

Entity linking (mapping ambiguous mentions in text to entities in a knowledge base) is a foundational step in tasks such as knowledge graph construction, question-answering, and information extraction. Our method, LELA, is a modular…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Samy Haffoudhi , Fabian M. Suchanek , Nils Holzenberger

In this work we propose a novel attention-based neural network model for the task of fine-grained entity type classification that unlike previously proposed models recursively composes representations of entity mention contexts. Our model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Sonse Shimaoka , Pontus Stenetorp , Kentaro Inui , Sebastian Riedel

Extracting entities and relations for types of interest from text is important for understanding massive text corpora. Traditionally, systems of entity relation extraction have relied on human-annotated corpora for training and adopted an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Xiang Ren , Zeqiu Wu , Wenqi He , Meng Qu , Clare R. Voss , Heng Ji , Tarek F. Abdelzaher , Jiawei Han

Entity linking is the task of linking mentions of named entities in natural language text, to entities in a curated knowledge-base. This is of significant importance in the biomedical domain, where it could be used to semantically annotate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Ming Zhu , Busra Celikkaya , Parminder Bhatia , Chandan K. Reddy

Fine-grained entity typing aims to assign entity mentions in the free text with types arranged in a hierarchical structure. Traditional distant supervision based methods employ a structured data source as a weak supervision and do not need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Denghui Zhang , Pengshan Cai , Yantao Jia , Manling Li , Yuanzhuo Wang , Xueqi Cheng

Entity Linking (EL) is the process of associating ambiguous textual mentions to specific entities in a knowledge base. Traditional EL methods heavily rely on large datasets to enhance their performance, a dependency that becomes problematic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xukai Liu , Ye Liu , Kai Zhang , Kehang Wang , Qi Liu , Enhong Chen

In recent years, the fine-tuned generative models have been proven more powerful than the previous tagging-based or span-based models on named entity recognition (NER) task. It has also been found that the information related to entities,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Guochao Jiang , Ziqin Luo , Yuchen Shi , Dixuan Wang , Jiaqing Liang , Deqing Yang

Entity linking (EL) is the process of linking entity mentions appearing in web text with their corresponding entities in a knowledge base. EL plays an important role in the fields of knowledge engineering and data mining, underlying a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Wei Shen , Yuhan Li , Yinan Liu , Jiawei Han , Jianyong Wang , Xiaojie Yuan

Due to their capacity to acquire world knowledge from large corpora, pre-trained language models (PLMs) are extensively used in ultra-fine entity typing tasks where the space of labels is extremely large. In this work, we explore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Advait Deshmukh , Ashwin Umadi , Dananjay Srinivas , Maria Leonor Pacheco

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…

Entity disambiguation, or mapping a phrase to its canonical representation in a knowledge base, is a fundamental step in many natural language processing applications. Existing techniques based on global ranking models fail to capture the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Tiep Mai , Bichen Shi , Patrick K. Nicholson , Deepak Ajwani , Alessandra Sala

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

This paper addresses the problem of corpus-level entity typing, i.e., inferring from a large corpus that an entity is a member of a class such as "food" or "artist". The application of entity typing we are interested in is knowledge base…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh , Hinrich Schütze

Fine-grained entity typing (FET) aims to deduce specific semantic types of the entity mentions in text. Modern methods for FET mainly focus on learning what a certain type looks like. And few works directly model the type differences, that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Xinyu Zuo , Haijin Liang , Ning Jing , Shuang Zeng , Zhou Fang , Yu Luo

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

Ultra-fine entity typing (UFET) is the task of inferring the semantic types, from a large set of fine-grained candidates, that apply to a given entity mention. This task is especially challenging because we only have a small number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Na Li , Zied Bouraoui , Steven Schockaert

Recent information extraction approaches have relied on training deep neural models. However, such models can easily overfit noisy labels and suffer from performance degradation. While it is very costly to filter noisy labels in large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Wenxuan Zhou , Muhao Chen