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Wikipedia hyperlinks have primarily been studied as navigational tools for readers, but their role in how information providers move between articles during editing remains less explored. Here, we combine the hyperlink network among English…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-19 Yeonji Seo , Mi Jin Lee , Seung-Woo Son , Hang-Hyun Jo , Yohsuke Murase

While a plethora of hypertext links exist on the Web, only a small amount of them are regularly clicked. Starting from this observation, we set out to study large-scale click data from Wikipedia in order to understand what makes a link…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Dimitar Dimitrov , Philipp Singer , Florian Lemmerich , Markus Strohmaier

Wikipedia is a popular web-based encyclopedia edited freely and collaboratively by its users. In this paper we present an analysis of Wikipedias in several languages as complex networks. The hyperlinks pointing from one Wikipedia article to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Zlatic , M. Bozicevic , H. Stefancic , M. Domazet

Comprehending an article requires understanding its constituent events. However, the context where an event is mentioned often lacks the details of this event. A question arises: how can the reader obtain more knowledge about this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Xiaodong Yu , Wenpeng Yin , Nitish Gupta , Dan Roth

Using deep learning for different machine learning tasks such as image classification and word embedding has recently gained many attentions. Its appealing performance reported across specific Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Ehsan Sherkat , Evangelos Milios

Entity linking is a standard component in modern retrieval system that is often performed by third-party toolkits. Despite the plethora of open source options, it is difficult to find a single system that has a modular architecture where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Johannes M. van Hulst , Faegheh Hasibi , Koen Dercksen , Krisztian Balog , Arjen P. de Vries

Cross-lingual Entity Linking (XEL), the problem of grounding mentions of entities in a foreign language text into an English knowledge base such as Wikipedia, has seen a lot of research in recent years, with a range of promising techniques.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Xingyu Fu , Weijia Shi , Xiaodong Yu , Zian Zhao , Dan Roth

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

The traditional entity extraction problem lies in the ability of extracting named entities from plain text using natural language processing techniques and intensive training from large document collections. Examples of named entities…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-11-21 Anne-Marie Vercoustre , James A. Thom , Jovan Pehcevski

In this article we address the problem of text passage alignment across interlingual article pairs in Wikipedia. We develop methods that enable the identification and interlinking of text passages written in different languages and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Simon Gottschalk , Elena Demidova

Entity linking, the task of mapping textual mentions to known entities, has recently been tackled using contextualized neural networks. We address the question whether these results -- reported for large, high-quality datasets such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Nadja Kurz , Felix Hamann , Adrian Ulges

In this work, we present an entity linking model which combines a Transformer architecture with large scale pretraining from Wikipedia links. Our model achieves the state-of-the-art on two commonly used entity linking datasets: 96.7% on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Thibault Févry , Nicholas FitzGerald , Livio Baldini Soares , Tom Kwiatkowski

We present work on building a global long-tailed ranking of entities across multiple languages using Wikipedia and Freebase knowledge bases. We identify multiple features and build a model to rank entities using a ground-truth dataset of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Prantik Bhattacharyya , Nemanja Spasojevic

Many fundamental problems in natural language processing rely on determining what entities appear in a given text. Commonly referenced as entity linking, this step is a fundamental component of many NLP tasks such as text understanding,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Marina Ganea , Aurelien Lucchi , Carsten Eickhoff , Thomas Hofmann

The embeddings of entities in a large knowledge base (e.g., Wikipedia) are highly beneficial for solving various natural language tasks that involve real world knowledge. In this paper, we present Wikipedia2Vec, a Python-based open-source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Ikuya Yamada , Akari Asai , Jin Sakuma , Hiroyuki Shindo , Hideaki Takeda , Yoshiyasu Takefuji , Yuji Matsumoto

We present a task of multilingual linking of events to a knowledge base. We automatically compile a large-scale dataset for this task, comprising of 1.8M mentions across 44 languages referring to over 10.9K events from Wikidata. We propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Adithya Pratapa , Rishubh Gupta , Teruko Mitamura

Recent research has taken advantage of Wikipedia's multilingualism as a resource for cross-language information retrieval and machine translation, as well as proposed techniques for enriching its cross-language structure. The availability…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-11-01 Thanh Nguyen , Viviane Moreira , Huong Nguyen , Hoa Nguyen , Juliana Freire

Entity-linking is a natural-language-processing task that consists in identifying the entities mentioned in a piece of text, linking each to an appropriate item in some knowledge base; when the knowledge base is Wikipedia, the problem comes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-31 Roi Blanco , Paolo Boldi , Andrea Marino

Wikipedia is edited by volunteer editors around the world. Considering the large amount of existing content (e.g. over 5M articles in English Wikipedia), deciding what to edit next can be difficult, both for experienced users that usually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Oleksii Moskalenko , Denis Parra , Diego Saez-Trumper

Wikipedia articles contain multiple links connecting a subject to other pages of the encyclopedia. In Wikipedia parlance, these links are called internal links or wikilinks. We present a complete dataset of the network of internal Wikipedia…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Cristian Consonni , David Laniado , Alberto Montresor