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Medical entity linking is the task of identifying and standardizing medical concepts referred to in an unstructured text. Most of the existing methods adopt a three-step approach of (1) detecting mentions, (2) generating a list of candidate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Shikhar Vashishth , Denis Newman-Griffis , Rishabh Joshi , Ritam Dutt , Carolyn Rose

Understanding the semantic meaning of content on the web through the lens of entities and concepts has many practical advantages. However, when building large-scale entity extraction systems, practitioners are facing unique challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Xuanting Cai , Quanbin Ma , Pan Li , Jianyu Liu , Qi Zeng , Zhengkan Yang , Pushkar Tripathi

The explosive growth of multimodal data has driven the rapid development of multimodal entity linking (MEL) models. However, existing studies have not systematically investigated the impact of visual adversarial attacks on MEL models. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Fang Wang , Yongjie Wang , Zonghao Yang , Minghao Hu , Xiaoying Bai

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and recognise named entities. Despite recent achievements, we still face limitations in correctly detecting and classifying entities,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Diego Esteves

Entities lie in the heart of biomedical natural language understanding, and the biomedical entity linking (EL) task remains challenging due to the fine-grained and diversiform concept names. Generative methods achieve remarkable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Hongyi Yuan , Zheng Yuan , Sheng Yu

Multimodal entity linking plays a crucial role in a wide range of applications. Recent advances in large language model-based methods have become the dominant paradigm for this task, effectively leveraging both textual and visual modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ziyan Liu , Junwen Li , Kaiwen Li , Tong Ruan , Chao Wang , Xinyan He , Zongyu Wang , Xuezhi Cao , Jingping Liu

Rich entity representations are useful for a wide class of problems involving entities. Despite their importance, there is no standardized benchmark that evaluates the overall quality of entity representations. In this work, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Mingda Chen , Zewei Chu , Yang Chen , Karl Stratos , Kevin Gimpel

In this paper, we describe TextEnt, a neural network model that learns distributed representations of entities and documents directly from a knowledge base (KB). Given a document in a KB consisting of words and entity annotations, we train…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Ikuya Yamada , Hiroyuki Shindo , Yoshiyasu Takefuji

Knowledge is captured in the form of entities and their relationships and stored in knowledge graphs. Knowledge graphs enhance the capabilities of applications in many different areas including Web search, recommendation, and natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Kalpa Gunaratna , Yu Wang , Hongxia Jin

Multimodal target/aspect sentiment classification combines multimodal sentiment analysis and aspect/target sentiment classification. The goal of the task is to combine vision and language to understand the sentiment towards a target entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Zaid Khan , Yun Fu

Hashtags are semantico-syntactic constructs used across various social networking and microblogging platforms to enable users to start a topic specific discussion or classify a post into a desired category. Segmenting and linking the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-01-15 Piyush Bansal , Romil Bansal , Vasudeva Varma

Biomedical entity linking maps textual mentions to concepts in structured knowledge bases such as UMLS or SNOMED CT. Most existing systems link each mention independently, using only the mention or its surrounding sentence. This ignores…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Adam Remaki , Xavier Tannier , Christel Gérardin

Entity Linking has two main open areas of research: 1) generate candidate entities without using alias tables and 2) generate more contextual representations for both mentions and entities. Recently, a solution has been proposed for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Oshin Agarwal , Daniel M. Bikel

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

MMEAD, or MS MARCO Entity Annotations and Disambiguations, is a resource for entity links for the MS MARCO datasets. We specify a format to store and share links for both document and passage collections of MS MARCO. Following this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Chris Kamphuis , Aileen Lin , Siwen Yang , Jimmy Lin , Arjen P. de Vries , Faegheh Hasibi

We propose a method to make natural language understanding models more parameter efficient by storing knowledge in an external knowledge graph (KG) and retrieving from this KG using a dense index. Given (possibly multilingual) downstream…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Ningyuan Huang , Yash R. Deshpande , Yibo Liu , Houda Alberts , Kyunghyun Cho , Clara Vania , Iacer Calixto

The MultiCoNER shared task aims at detecting semantically ambiguous and complex named entities in short and low-context settings for multiple languages. The lack of contexts makes the recognition of ambiguous named entities challenging. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Xinyu Wang , Yongliang Shen , Jiong Cai , Tao Wang , Xiaobin Wang , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang , Kewei Tu , Wei Lu , Yong Jiang

Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims to extract and classify entity mentions in the text into pre-defined types (e.g., organization or person name). Recently, many works have been proposed to shape the NER as a machine reading comprehension…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yibo Wang , Wenting Zhao , Yao Wan , Zhongfen Deng , Philip S. Yu

This paper introduces SocialVec, a general framework for eliciting social world knowledge from social networks, and applies this framework to Twitter. SocialVec learns low-dimensional embeddings of popular accounts, which represent entities…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Nir Lotan , Einat Minkov

Event detection in a multimodal Twitter dataset is considered. We treat the hashtags in the dataset as instances with two modes: text and geolocation features. The text feature consists of a bag-of-words representation. The geolocation…

Applications · Statistics 2016-05-17 Yasin Yilmaz , Alfred Hero