English
Related papers

Related papers: Entity Linking via Dual and Cross-Attention Encode…

200 papers

The first stage of every knowledge base question answering approach is to link entities in the input question. We investigate entity linking in the context of a question answering task and present a jointly optimized neural architecture for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Daniil Sorokin , Iryna Gurevych

A key challenge in entity linking is making effective use of contextual information to disambiguate mentions that might refer to different entities in different contexts. We present a model that uses convolutional neural networks to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Matthew Francis-Landau , Greg Durrett , Dan Klein

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

Joint entity and relation extraction is the fundamental task of information extraction, consisting of two subtasks: named entity recognition and relation extraction. However, most existing joint extraction methods suffer from issues of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Wenjun Kong , Yamei Xia

Despite the advantages of their low-resource settings, traditional sparse retrievers depend on exact matching approaches between high-dimensional bag-of-words (BoW) representations of both the queries and the collection. As a result,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Dahlia Shehata

Entity Linking (EL) is the gateway into Knowledge Bases. Recent advances in EL utilize dense retrieval approaches for Candidate Generation, which addresses some of the shortcomings of the Lookup based approach of matching NER mentions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Liam Hebert , Raheleh Makki , Shubhanshu Mishra , Hamidreza Saghir , Anusha Kamath , Yuval Merhav

In this work, we address the brand entity linking problem for e-commerce search queries. The entity linking task is done by either i)a two-stage process consisting of entity mention detection followed by entity disambiguation or ii) an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Dong Liu , Sreyashi Nag

Classifying semantic relations between entity pairs in sentences is an important task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Most previous models for relation classification rely on the high-level lexical and syntactic features obtained by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Joohong Lee , Sangwoo Seo , Yong Suk Choi

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

Entity linking aims to link ambiguous mentions to their corresponding entities in a knowledge base, which is significant and fundamental for various downstream applications, e.g., knowledge base completion, question answering, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Xiuxing Li , Zhenyu Li , Zhengyan Zhang , Ning Liu , Haitao Yuan , Wei Zhang , Zhiyuan Liu , Jianyong Wang

Named entity recognition and relation extraction are two important fundamental problems. Joint learning algorithms have been proposed to solve both tasks simultaneously, and many of them cast the joint task as a table-filling problem.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Jue Wang , Wei Lu

Entity linking aims to establish a link between entity mentions in a document and the corresponding entities in knowledge graphs (KGs). Previous work has shown the effectiveness of global coherence for entity linking. However, most of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Jian Sun , Yu Zhou , Chengqing Zong

Entity Linking is the task of matching a mention to an entity in a given knowledge base (KB). It contributes to annotating a massive amount of documents existing on the Web to harness new facts about their matched entities. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Hassan Soliman

We propose a new formulation for multilingual entity linking, where language-specific mentions resolve to a language-agnostic Knowledge Base. We train a dual encoder in this new setting, building on prior work with improved feature…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Jan A. Botha , Zifei Shan , Daniel Gillick

Entity extraction is fundamental to many text mining tasks such as organisation name recognition. A popular approach to entity extraction is based on matching sub-string candidates in a document against a dictionary of entities. To handle…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Zeyi Wen , Dong Deng , Rui Zhang , Kotagiri Ramamohanarao

This survey presents a comprehensive description of recent neural entity linking (EL) systems developed since 2015 as a result of the "deep learning revolution" in natural language processing. Its goal is to systemize design features of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Ozge Sevgili , Artem Shelmanov , Mikhail Arkhipov , Alexander Panchenko , Chris Biemann

We present an instance-based nearest neighbor approach to entity linking. In contrast to most prior entity retrieval systems which represent each entity with a single vector, we build a contextualized mention-encoder that learns to place…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Nicholas FitzGerald , Jan A. Botha , Daniel Gillick , Daniel M. Bikel , Tom Kwiatkowski , Andrew McCallum

We introduce the task of entity-centric query refinement. Given an input query whose answer is a (potentially large) collection of entities, the task output is a small set of query refinements meant to assist the user in efficient domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-19 David Wadden , Nikita Gupta , Kenton Lee , Kristina Toutanova

Entity linking aims to link ambiguous mentions to their corresponding entities in a knowledge base. One of the key challenges comes from insufficient labeled data for specific domains. Although dense retrievers have achieved excellent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Yulin Chen , Zhenran Xu , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang

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