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Entity linking (EL) is the task of disambiguating mentions in text by associating them with entries in a predefined database of mentions (persons, organizations, etc). Most previous EL research has focused mainly on one language, English,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Avirup Sil , Radu Florian

Entity linking is an indispensable operation of populating knowledge repositories for information extraction. It studies on aligning a textual entity mention to its corresponding disambiguated entry in a knowledge repository. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-06 Miao Fan , Qiang Zhou , Thomas Fang Zheng

Named entity recognition (NER) and entity linking (EL) are two fundamentally related tasks, since in order to perform EL, first the mentions to entities have to be detected. However, most entity linking approaches disregard the mention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Pedro Henrique Martins , Zita Marinho , André F. T. Martins

Entity linking (EL), the task of disambiguating mentions in text by linking them to entities in a knowledge graph, is crucial for text understanding, question answering or conversational systems. Entity linking on short text (e.g., single…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Hang Jiang , Sairam Gurajada , Qiuhao Lu , Sumit Neelam , Lucian Popa , Prithviraj Sen , Yunyao Li , Alexander Gray

Entity Linking (EL) is the task of detecting mentions of entities in text and disambiguating them to a reference knowledge base. Most prevalent EL approaches assume that the reference knowledge base is complete. In practice, however, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Nicolas Heist , Heiko Paulheim

Entity linking is a prominent thread of research focused on structured data creation by linking spans of text to an ontology or knowledge source. We revisit the use of structured prediction for entity linking which classifies each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hassan S. Shavarani , Anoop Sarkar

Entity linkage (EL) is a critical problem in data cleaning and integration. In the past several decades, EL has typically been done by rule-based systems or traditional machine learning models with hand-curated features, both of which…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Zhengyang Wang , Bunyamin Sisman , Hao Wei , Xin Luna Dong , Shuiwang Ji

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

The Entity Disambiguation and Linking (EDL) task matches entity mentions in text to a unique Knowledge Base (KB) identifier such as a Wikipedia or Freebase id. It plays a critical role in the construction of a high quality information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Preeti Bhargava , Nemanja Spasojevic , Guoning Hu

To study social, economic, and historical questions, researchers in the social sciences and humanities have started to use increasingly large unstructured textual datasets. While recent advances in NLP provide many tools to efficiently…

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

Microblogging is a model of content sharing in which the temporal locality of posts with respect to important events, either of foreseeable or unforeseeable nature, makes applica- tions of real-time filtering of great practical interest. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Giacomo Berardi , Diego Ceccarelli , Andrea Esuli , Diego Marcheggiani

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

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 Natural Language Processing, entity linking (EL) has centered around Wikipedia, but yet remains underexplored for the job market domain. Disambiguating skill mentions can help us get insight into the current labor market demands. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Mike Zhang , Rob van der Goot , Barbara Plank

Fine-grained entity typing is a challenging problem since it usually involves a relatively large tag set and may require to understand the context of the entity mention. In this paper, we use entity linking to help with the fine-grained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Hongliang Dai , Donghong Du , Xin Li , Yangqiu Song

Entity linking models have achieved significant success via utilizing pretrained language models to capture semantic features. However, the NIL prediction problem, which aims to identify mentions without a corresponding entity in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Fangwei Zhu , Jifan Yu , Hailong Jin , Juanzi Li , Lei Hou , Zhifang Sui

Entity linking (EL) is the task of linking entity mentions in a document to referent entities in a knowledge base (KB). Many previous studies focus on Wikipedia-derived KBs. There is little work on EL over Wikidata, even though it is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Tuan Manh Lai , Heng Ji , ChengXiang Zhai

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

In the legal domain it is important to differentiate between words in general, and afterwards to link the occurrences of the same entities. The topic to solve these challenges is called Named-Entity Linking (NEL). Current supervised neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Ahmed Elnaggar , Robin Otto , Florian Matthes