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Entity Linking (EL) plays a crucial role in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, enabling the disambiguation of entity mentions by linking them to their corresponding entries in a reference knowledge base (KB). Thanks to their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Marta Boscariol , Luana Bulla , Lia Draetta , Beatrice Fiumanò , Emanuele Lenzi , Leonardo Piano

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 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

We consider a joint information extraction (IE) model, solving named entity recognition, coreference resolution and relation extraction jointly over the whole document. In particular, we study how to inject information from a knowledge base…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Severine Verlinden , Klim Zaporojets , Johannes Deleu , Thomas Demeester , Chris Develder

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 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

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

Cross-lingual entity linking (XEL) grounds named entities in a source language to an English Knowledge Base (KB), such as Wikipedia. XEL is challenging for most languages because of limited availability of requisite resources. However, much…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Shuyan Zhou , Shruti Rijhwani , Graham Neubig

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

Entity linking (or Normalization) is an essential task in text mining that maps the entity mentions in the medical text to standard entities in a given Knowledge Base (KB). This task is of great importance in the medical domain. It can also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Ishani Mondal , Sukannya Purkayastha , Sudeshna Sarkar , Pawan Goyal , Jitesh Pillai , Amitava Bhattacharyya , Mahanandeeshwar Gattu

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

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

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

We present an ensemble approach for categorizing search query entities in the recruitment domain. Understanding the types of entities expressed in a search query (Company, Skill, Job Title, etc.) enables more intelligent information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Walid Shalaby , Khalifeh Al Jadda , Mohammed Korayem , Trey Grainger

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

The similarity between the question and indexed documents is a crucial factor in document retrieval for retrieval-augmented question answering. Although this is typically the only method for obtaining the relevant documents, it is not the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Hassan S. Shavarani , Anoop Sarkar

This paper introduces a new model that uses named entity recognition, coreference resolution, and entity linking techniques, to approach the task of linking people entities on Wikipedia people pages to their corresponding Wikipedia pages if…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Weiqian Yan , Kanchan Khurad

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

Entity linking is the task of aligning mentions to corresponding entities in a given knowledge base. Previous studies have highlighted the necessity for entity linking systems to capture the global coherence. However, there are two common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Zheng Fang , Yanan Cao , Dongjie Zhang , Qian Li , Zhenyu Zhang , Yanbing Liu

Entity linking involves aligning textual mentions of named entities to their corresponding entries in a knowledge base. Entity linking systems often exploit relations between textual mentions in a document (e.g., coreference) to decide if…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Phong Le , Ivan Titov