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Entity Set Expansion (ESE) is a critical task aiming at expanding entities of the target semantic class described by seed entities. Most existing ESE methods are retrieval-based frameworks that need to extract contextual features of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shulin Huang , Shirong Ma , Yangning Li , Yinghui Li , Hai-Tao Zheng

Given a small set of seed entities (e.g., ``USA'', ``Russia''), corpus-based set expansion is to induce an extensive set of entities which share the same semantic class (Country in this example) from a given corpus. Set expansion benefits a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Jiaxin Huang , Yiqing Xie , Yu Meng , Jiaming Shen , Yunyi Zhang , Jiawei Han

Entity set expansion, aiming at expanding a small seed entity set with new entities belonging to the same semantic class, is a critical task that benefits many downstream NLP and IR applications, such as question answering, query…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Yunyi Zhang , Jiaming Shen , Jingbo Shang , Jiawei Han

We present SetExpander, a corpus-based system for expanding a seed set of terms into a more complete set of terms that belong to the same semantic class. SetExpander implements an iterative end-to end workflow for term set expansion. It…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Jonathan Mamou , Oren Pereg , Moshe Wasserblat , Ido Dagan , Yoav Goldberg , Alon Eirew , Yael Green , Shira Guskin , Peter Izsak , Daniel Korat

Entity set expansion and synonym discovery are two critical NLP tasks. Previous studies accomplish them separately, without exploring their interdependencies. In this work, we hypothesize that these two tasks are tightly coupled because two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Jiaming Shen , Wenda Qiu , Jingbo Shang , Michelle Vanni , Xiang Ren , Jiawei Han

Entity Set Expansion (ESE) is a valuable task that aims to find entities of the target semantic class described by given seed entities. Various Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR) downstream applications have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yinghui Li , Shulin Huang , Xinwei Zhang , Qingyu Zhou , Yangning Li , Ruiyang Liu , Yunbo Cao , Hai-Tao Zheng , Ying Shen

Given a few seed entities of a certain type (e.g., Software or Programming Language), entity set expansion aims to discover an extensive set of entities that share the same type as the seeds. Entity set expansion in software-related domains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yu Zhang , Yunyi Zhang , Yucheng Jiang , Martin Michalski , Yu Deng , Lucian Popa , ChengXiang Zhai , Jiawei Han

Literature search is critical for any scientific research. Different from Web or general domain search, a large portion of queries in scientific literature search are entity-set queries, that is, multiple entities of possibly different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Jiaming Shen , Jinfeng Xiao , Xinwei He , Jingbo Shang , Saurabh Sinha , Jiawei Han

Query expansion is an effective approach for mitigating vocabulary mismatch between queries and documents in information retrieval. One recent line of research uses language models to generate query-related contexts for expansion. Along…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Linqing Liu , Minghan Li , Jimmy Lin , Sebastian Riedel , Pontus Stenetorp

This paper proposes a structure-aware decoding method based on large language models to address the difficulty of traditional approaches in maintaining both semantic integrity and structural consistency in nested and overlapping entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhimin Qiu , Di Wu , Feng Liu , Yuxiao Wang

In this paper, we present a novel algorithm that combines multi-context term embeddings using a neural classifier and we test this approach on the use case of corpus-based term set expansion. In addition, we present a novel and unique…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Jonathan Mamou , Oren Pereg , Moshe Wasserblat , Ido Dagan

Large Language Models cannot reliably acquire new knowledge post-deployment -- even when relevant text resources exist, models fail to transform them into actionable knowledge without retraining. Retrieval-Augmented Generation attempts to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Qi Sun , Stefan Nielsen , Rio Yokota , Yujin Tang

Recognizing similarities among entities is central to both human cognition and computational intelligence. Within this broader landscape, Entity Set Expansion is one prominent task aimed at taking an initial set of (tuples of) entities and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Giovanni Amendola , Pietro Cofone , Marco Manna , Aldo Ricioppo

We present SetExpander, a corpus-based system for expanding a seed set of terms into amore complete set of terms that belong to the same semantic class. SetExpander implements an iterative end-to-end workflow. It enables users to easily…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Jonathan Mamou , Oren Pereg , Moshe Wasserblat , Alon Eirew , Yael Green , Shira Guskin , Peter Izsak , Daniel Korat

Entity Set Expansion is an important NLP task that aims at expanding a small set of entities into a larger one with items from a large pool of candidates. In this paper, we propose GausSetExpander, an unsupervised approach based on optimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Aïssatou Diallo , Johannes Fürnkranz

We present an ensemble approach for categorizing search query entities in the recruitment domain. Understanding the types of entities expressed in a search query (Company, Skill, Job Title, etc.) enables more intelligent information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Walid Shalaby , Khalifeh Al Jadda , Mohammed Korayem , Trey Grainger

Automatic construction of a taxonomy supports many applications in e-commerce, web search, and question answering. Existing taxonomy expansion or completion methods assume that new concepts have been accurately extracted and their embedding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Qingkai Zeng , Jinfeng Lin , Wenhao Yu , Jane Cleland-Huang , Meng Jiang

Topic taxonomies display hierarchical topic structures of a text corpus and provide topical knowledge to enhance various NLP applications. To dynamically incorporate new topic information, several recent studies have tried to expand (or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Dongha Lee , Jiaming Shen , Seonghyeon Lee , Susik Yoon , Hwanjo Yu , Jiawei Han

Entity set expansion, taxonomy expansion, and seed-guided taxonomy construction are three representative tasks that can be applied to automatically populate an existing taxonomy with emerging concepts. Previous studies view them as three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yanzhen Shen , Yu Zhang , Yunyi Zhang , Jiawei Han

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
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