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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

Entity linking (EL) aligns textual mentions with their corresponding entities in a knowledge base, facilitating various applications such as semantic search and question answering. Recent advances in multimodal entity linking (MEL) have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Juyeon Kim , Geon Lee , Taeuk Kim , Kijung Shin

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

During the early stages of developing Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) systems the definition of similarity measures is challenging since this task requires transferring implicit knowledge of domain experts into knowledge representations. While…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Kerstin Bach , Paul Jarle Mork

Entity recognition is a critical first step to a number of clinical NLP applications, such as entity linking and relation extraction. We present the first attempt to apply state-of-the-art entity recognition approaches on a newly released…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Kathleen C. Fraser , Isar Nejadgholi , Berry De Bruijn , Muqun Li , Astha LaPlante , Khaldoun Zine El Abidine

Statements about entities occur everywhere, from newspapers and web pages to structured databases. Correlating references to entities across systems that use different identifiers or names for them is a widespread problem. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-06-27 R. V. Guha

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a challenging and widely studied task that involves detecting and typing entities in text. So far,NER still approaches entity typing as a task of classification into universal classes (e.g. date, person, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Tristan Luiggi , Laure Soulier , Vincent Guigue , Siwar Jendoubi , Aurélien Baelde

Many Entity Linking systems use collective graph-based methods to disambiguate the entity mentions within a document. Most of them have focused on graph construction and initial weighting of the candidate entities, less attention has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Hussam Hamdan , Jean-Gabriel Ganascia

Entity matching (EM) is a critical step in entity resolution (ER). Recently, entity matching based on large language models (LLMs) has shown great promise. However, current LLM-based entity matching approaches typically follow a binary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Tianshu Wang , Xiaoyang Chen , Hongyu Lin , Xuanang Chen , Xianpei Han , Hao Wang , Zhenyu Zeng , Le Sun

Entity Matching is an essential part of all real-world systems that take in structured and unstructured data coming from different sources. Typically no common key is available for connecting records. Massive data cleaning and integration…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Ran Ziv , Ilan Gronau , Michael Fire

Accurate recognition of biomedical named entities is critical for medical information extraction and knowledge discovery. However, existing methods often struggle with nested entities, entity boundary ambiguity, and cross-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Tengxiao Lv , Ling Luo , Juntao Li , Yanhua Wang , Yuchen Pan , Chao Liu , Yanan Wang , Yan Jiang , Huiyi Lv , Yuanyuan Sun , Jian Wang , Hongfei Lin

Recent named entity recognition (NER) models often rely on human-annotated datasets, requiring the significant engagement of professional knowledge on the target domain and entities. This research introduces an ask-to-generate approach that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Hyunjae Kim , Jaehyo Yoo , Seunghyun Yoon , Jinhyuk Lee , Jaewoo Kang

A major challenge in Entity Linking (EL) is making effective use of contextual information to disambiguate mentions to Wikipedia that might refer to different entities in different contexts. The problem exacerbates with cross-lingual EL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Avirup Sil , Gourab Kundu , Radu Florian , Wael Hamza

Biomedical entity linking and event extraction are two crucial tasks to support text understanding and retrieval in the biomedical domain. These two tasks intrinsically benefit each other: entity linking disambiguates the biomedical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Xiaochu Li , Minqian Liu , Zhiyang Xu , Lifu Huang

By summarizing longer consumer health questions into shorter and essential ones, medical question-answering systems can more accurately understand consumer intentions and retrieve suitable answers. However, medical question summarization is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Wenpeng Lu , Sibo Wei , Xueping Peng , Yi-fei Wang , Usman Naseem , Shoujin Wang

The automatic generation of brain CT reports has gained widespread attention, given its potential to assist radiologists in diagnosing cranial diseases. However, brain CT scans involve extensive medical entities, such as diverse anatomy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xiaodan Zhang , Yanzhao Shi , Junzhong Ji , Chengxin Zheng , Liangqiong Qu

The processing of entities in natural language is essential to many medical NLP systems. Unfortunately, existing datasets vastly under-represent the entities required to model public health relevant texts such as health advice often found…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Joseph Gatto , Parker Seegmiller , Garrett Johnston , Sarah M. Preum

Most of the Natural Language Processing systems are involved in entity-based processing for several tasks like Information Extraction, Question-Answering, Text-Summarization and so on. A new challenge comes when entities play roles…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Neelesh Kumar Shukla , Sanasam Ranbir Singh

Now a day's, search engines are been most widely used for extracting information's from various resources throughout the world. Where, majority of searches lies in the field of biomedical for retrieving related documents from various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-12-14 Jayanthi Manicassamy , P. Dhavachelvan

This paper presents a transformer-based approach to solving the SympTEMIST named entity recognition (NER) and entity linking (EL) tasks. For NER, we fine-tune a RoBERTa-based (1) token-level classifier with BiLSTM and CRF layers on an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Georgi Grazhdanski , Sylvia Vassileva , Ivan Koychev , Svetla Boytcheva