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Existing state of the art neural entity linking models employ attention-based bag-of-words context model and pre-trained entity embeddings bootstrapped from word embeddings to assess topic level context compatibility. However, the latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Shuang Chen , Jinpeng Wang , Feng Jiang , Chin-Yew Lin

We present models for embedding words in the context of surrounding words. Such models, which we refer to as token embeddings, represent the characteristics of a word that are specific to a given context, such as word sense, syntactic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Lifu Tu , Kevin Gimpel , Karen Livescu

We study the problem of few-shot Fine-grained Entity Typing (FET), where only a few annotated entity mentions with contexts are given for each entity type. Recently, prompt-based tuning has demonstrated superior performance to standard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Jiaxin Huang , Yu Meng , Jiawei Han

Contextualized embeddings use unsupervised language model pretraining to compute word representations depending on their context. This is intuitively useful for generalization, especially in Named-Entity Recognition where it is crucial to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Bruno Taillé , Vincent Guigue , Patrick Gallinari

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

Accurately typing entity mentions from text segments is a fundamental task for various natural language processing applications. Many previous approaches rely on massive human-annotated data to perform entity typing. Nevertheless,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Yu Zhang , Yunyi Zhang , Yanzhen Shen , Yu Deng , Lucian Popa , Larisa Shwartz , ChengXiang Zhai , Jiawei Han

Entity linking involves aligning textual mentions of named entities to their corresponding entries in a knowledge base. Entity linking systems often exploit relations between textual mentions in a document (e.g., coreference) to decide if…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Phong Le , Ivan Titov

Language modeling tasks, in which words, or word-pieces, are predicted on the basis of a local context, have been very effective for learning word embeddings and context dependent representations of phrases. Motivated by the observation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Jeffrey Ling , Nicholas FitzGerald , Zifei Shan , Livio Baldini Soares , Thibault Févry , David Weiss , Tom Kwiatkowski

Entity tracking (ET), the ability to keep track of states, is a fundamental skill that underlies complex reasoning. An increasing amount of work investigates how transformer language models (LMs) solve entity binding $\textit{without}$…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zilu Tang , Qiao Zhao , Gabriel Franco , Derry Wijaya , Aaron Mueller , Sebastian Schuster , Najoung Kim

Microblogging sites, like Twitter, have emerged as ubiquitous sources of information. Two important tasks related to the automatic extraction and analysis of information in Microblogs are Entity Mention Detection (EMD) and Entity Detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Satadisha Saha Bhowmick , Eduard C. Dragut , Weiyi Meng

We introduce a new image segmentation task, called Entity Segmentation (ES), which aims to segment all visual entities (objects and stuffs) in an image without predicting their semantic labels. By removing the need of class label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Lu Qi , Jason Kuen , Yi Wang , Jiuxiang Gu , Hengshuang Zhao , Zhe Lin , Philip Torr , Jiaya Jia

Named Entity Recognition seeks to extract substrings within a text that name real-world objects and to determine their type (for example, whether they refer to persons or organizations). In this survey, we first present an overview of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Imed Keraghel , Stanislas Morbieu , Mohamed Nadif

Entity typing (ET) is the problem of assigning labels to given entity mentions in a sentence. Existing works for ET require knowledge about the domain and target label set for a given test instance. ET in the absence of such knowledge is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Abhishek Abhishek , Amar Prakash Azad , Balaji Ganesan , Ashish Anand , Amit Awekar

Contextual embeddings, such as ELMo and BERT, move beyond global word representations like Word2Vec and achieve ground-breaking performance on a wide range of natural language processing tasks. Contextual embeddings assign each word a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Qi Liu , Matt J. Kusner , Phil Blunsom

This paper explores entity embedding effectiveness in ad-hoc entity retrieval, which introduces distributed representation of entities into entity retrieval. The knowledge graph contains lots of knowledge and models entity semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Zhenghao Liu , Chenyan Xiong , Maosong Sun , Zhiyuan Liu

The entity type information in Knowledge Graphs (KGs) such as DBpedia, Freebase, etc. is often incomplete due to automated generation or human curation. Entity typing is the task of assigning or inferring the semantic type of an entity in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Russa Biswas , Jan Portisch , Heiko Paulheim , Harald Sack , Mehwish Alam

Neural methods for embedding entities are typically extrinsically evaluated on downstream tasks and, more recently, intrinsically using probing tasks. Downstream task-based comparisons are often difficult to interpret due to differences in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Andrew Runge , Eduard Hovy

Humans use language to refer to entities in the external world. Motivated by this, in recent years several models that incorporate a bias towards learning entity representations have been proposed. Such entity-centric models have shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Laura Aina , Carina Silberer , Matthijs Westera , Ionut-Teodor Sorodoc , Gemma Boleda

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