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Zero-shot entity and relation classification models leverage available external information of unseen classes -- e.g., textual descriptions -- to annotate input text data. Thanks to the minimum data requirement, Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Gabriele Picco , Leopold Fuchs , Marcos Martínez Galindo , Alberto Purpura , Vanessa López , Hoang Thanh Lam

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

This paper describes the USTC_NELSLIP systems submitted to the Trilingual Entity Detection and Linking (EDL) track in 2016 TAC Knowledge Base Population (KBP) contests. We have built two systems for entity discovery and mention detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Dan Liu , Wei Lin , Shiliang Zhang , Si Wei , Hui Jiang

We propose yet another entity linking model (YELM) which links words to entities instead of spans. This overcomes any difficulties associated with the selection of good candidate mention spans and makes the joint training of mention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Haotian Chen , Andrej Zukov-Gregoric , Xi David Li , Sahil Wadhwa

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

Entity Linking in natural language processing seeks to match text entities to their corresponding entries in a dictionary or knowledge base. Traditional approaches rely on contextual models, which can be complex, hard to train, and have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yifan Ding , Amrit Poudel , Qingkai Zeng , Tim Weninger , Balaji Veeramani , Sanmitra Bhattacharya

Entity resolution (ER) is the task of identifying different representations of the same real-world entities across databases. It is a key step for knowledge base creation and text mining. Recent adaptation of deep learning methods for ER…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Jungo Kasai , Kun Qian , Sairam Gurajada , Yunyao Li , Lucian Popa

Entity Linking involves detecting and linking entity mentions in natural language texts to a knowledge graph. Traditional methods use a two-step process with separate models for entity recognition and disambiguation, which can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Daniel Vollmers , Hamada M. Zahera , Diego Moussallem , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Entity matching, a core data integration problem, is the task of deciding whether two data tuples refer to the same real-world entity. Recent advances in deep learning methods, using pre-trained language models, were proposed for resolving…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Bar Genossar , Avigdor Gal , Roee Shraga

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 (EL) is the process of linking entity mentions appearing in text with their corresponding entities in a knowledge base. EL features of entities (e.g., prior probability, relatedness score, and entity embedding) are usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Chenwei Ran , Wei Shen , Jianbo Gao , Yuhan Li , Jianyong Wang , Yantao Jia

Entity disambiguation (ED) is the last step of entity linking (EL), when candidate entities are reranked according to the context they appear in. All datasets for training and evaluating models for EL consist of convenience samples, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Vera Provatorova , Svitlana Vakulenko , Samarth Bhargav , Evangelos Kanoulas

We introduce ReFinED, an efficient end-to-end entity linking model which uses fine-grained entity types and entity descriptions to perform linking. The model performs mention detection, fine-grained entity typing, and entity disambiguation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Tom Ayoola , Shubhi Tyagi , Joseph Fisher , Christos Christodoulopoulos , Andrea Pierleoni

We show that it is feasible to perform entity linking by training a dual encoder (two-tower) model that encodes mentions and entities in the same dense vector space, where candidate entities are retrieved by approximate nearest neighbor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Daniel Gillick , Sayali Kulkarni , Larry Lansing , Alessandro Presta , Jason Baldridge , Eugene Ie , Diego Garcia-Olano

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

Entity Linking (EL) is the task of automatically identifying entity mentions in a piece of text and resolving them to a corresponding entity in a reference knowledge base like Wikipedia. There is a large number of EL tools available for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Renato Stoffalette João , Pavlos Fafalios , Stefan Dietze

We consider the task of document-level entity linking (EL), where it is important to make consistent decisions for entity mentions over the full document jointly. We aim to leverage explicit "connections" among mentions within the document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Klim Zaporojets , Johannes Deleu , Yiwei Jiang , Thomas Demeester , Chris Develder

Machine understanding of user utterances in conversational systems is of utmost importance for enabling engaging and meaningful conversations with users. Entity Linking (EL) is one of the means of text understanding, with proven efficacy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Hideaki Joko , Faegheh Hasibi , Krisztian Balog , Arjen P. de Vries

Entity resolution (ER) refers to the problem of matching records in one or more relations that refer to the same real-world entity. While supervised machine learning (ML) approaches achieve the state-of-the-art results, they require a large…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Renzhi Wu , Sanya Chaba , Saurabh Sawlani , Xu Chu , Saravanan Thirumuruganathan

Despite considerable progress in neural relevance ranking techniques, search engines still struggle to process complex queries effectively - both in terms of precision and recall. Sparse and dense Pseudo-Relevance Feedback (PRF) approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Iain Mackie , Shubham Chatterjee , Sean MacAvaney , Jeffrey Dalton