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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

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

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

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

Some Question Answering (QA) systems rely on knowledge bases (KBs) to provide accurate answers. Entity Linking (EL) plays a critical role in linking natural language mentions to KB entries. However, most existing EL methods are designed for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yajie Luo , Yihong Wu , Muzhi Li , Jia Ao Sun , Xinyu Wang , Liheng Ma , Yingxue Zhang , Jian-Yun Nie

In this paper, we propose CHOLAN, a modular approach to target end-to-end entity linking (EL) over knowledge bases. CHOLAN consists of a pipeline of two transformer-based models integrated sequentially to accomplish the EL task. The first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Manoj Prabhakar Kannan Ravi , Kuldeep Singh , Isaiah Onando Mulang' , Saeedeh Shekarpour , Johannes Hoffart , Jens Lehmann

Building named entity recognition (NER) models for languages that do not have much training data is a challenging task. While recent work has shown promising results on cross-lingual transfer from high-resource languages to low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Xiaolei Huang , Jonathan May , Nanyun Peng

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

Injecting external domain-specific knowledge (e.g., UMLS) into pretrained language models (LMs) advances their capability to handle specialised in-domain tasks such as biomedical entity linking (BEL). However, such abundant expert knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Fangyu Liu , Ivan Vulić , Anna Korhonen , Nigel Collier

Entity linking models have achieved significant success via utilizing pretrained language models to capture semantic features. However, the NIL prediction problem, which aims to identify mentions without a corresponding entity in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Fangwei Zhu , Jifan Yu , Hailong Jin , Juanzi Li , Lei Hou , Zhifang Sui

Entity linking is a standard component in modern retrieval system that is often performed by third-party toolkits. Despite the plethora of open source options, it is difficult to find a single system that has a modular architecture where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Johannes M. van Hulst , Faegheh Hasibi , Koen Dercksen , Krisztian Balog , Arjen P. de Vries

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

Although the vast majority of knowledge bases KBs are heavily biased towards English, Wikipedias do cover very different topics in different languages. Exploiting this, we introduce a new multilingual dataset (X-WikiRE), framing relation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Mostafa Abdou , Cezar Sas , Rahul Aralikatte , Isabelle Augenstein , Anders Søgaard

Modern Entity Linking (EL) systems entrench a popularity bias, yet there is no dataset focusing on tail and emerging entities in languages other than English. We present Hansel, a new benchmark in Chinese that fills the vacancy of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhenran Xu , Zifei Shan , Yuxin Li , Baotian Hu , Bing Qin

Modern entity linking systems rely on large collections of documents specifically annotated for the task (e.g., AIDA CoNLL). In contrast, we propose an approach which exploits only naturally occurring information: unlabeled documents and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Phong Le , Ivan Titov

Cross-lingual Named Entity Recognition (NER) leverages knowledge transfer between languages to identify and classify named entities, making it particularly useful for low-resource languages. We show that the data-based cross-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Andrei Politov , Oleh Shkalikov , René Jäkel , Michael Färber

Understanding the semantic meaning of tabular data requires Entity Linking (EL), in order to associate each cell value to a real-world entity in a Knowledge Base (KB). In this work, we focus on end-to-end solutions for EL on tabular data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Miltiadis Marios Katsakioris , Yiwei Zhou , Daniele Masato

The Entity Disambiguation and Linking (EDL) task matches entity mentions in text to a unique Knowledge Base (KB) identifier such as a Wikipedia or Freebase id. It plays a critical role in the construction of a high quality information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Preeti Bhargava , Nemanja Spasojevic , Guoning Hu

Multimodal Entity Linking (MEL) is the task of mapping mentions with multimodal contexts to the referent entities from a knowledge base. Existing MEL methods mainly focus on designing complex multimodal interaction mechanisms and require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Senbao Shi , 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