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Biomedical entity linking is the task of identifying mentions of biomedical concepts in text documents and mapping them to canonical entities in a target thesaurus. Recent advancements in entity linking using BERT-based models follow a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Rajarshi Bhowmik , Karl Stratos , Gerard de Melo

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

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

Entity linking (mapping ambiguous mentions in text to entities in a knowledge base) is a foundational step in tasks such as knowledge graph construction, question-answering, and information extraction. Our method, LELA, is a modular…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Samy Haffoudhi , Fabian M. Suchanek , Nils Holzenberger

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

Article comprehension is an important challenge in natural language processing with many applications such as article generation or image-to-article retrieval. Prior work typically encodes all tokens in articles uniformly using pretrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zhongping Zhang , Yiwen Gu , Bryan A. Plummer

In our continuously evolving world, entities change over time and new, previously non-existing or unknown, entities appear. We study how this evolutionary scenario impacts the performance on a well established entity linking (EL) task. For…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Klim Zaporojets , Lucie-Aimee Kaffee , Johannes Deleu , Thomas Demeester , Chris Develder , Isabelle Augenstein

When working with any sort of knowledge base (KB) one has to make sure it is as complete and also as up-to-date as possible. Both tasks are non-trivial as they require recall-oriented efforts to determine which entities and relationships…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Shuo Zhang , Edgar Meij , Krisztian Balog , Ridho Reinanda

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

Entity retrieval, which aims at disambiguating mentions to canonical entities from massive KBs, is essential for many tasks in natural language processing. Recent progress in entity retrieval shows that the dual-encoder structure is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xinyin Ma , Yong Jiang , Nguyen Bach , Tao Wang , Zhongqiang Huang , Fei Huang , Weiming Lu

This paper presents a novel approach to address the Entity Recognition and Linking Challenge at NLPCC 2015. The task involves extracting named entity mentions from short search queries and linking them to entities within a reference Chinese…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Di Lu , Zhongping Liang , Caixia Yuan , Xiaojie Wang

Candidate generation is a crucial module in entity linking. It also plays a key role in multiple NLP tasks that have been proven to beneficially leverage knowledge bases. Nevertheless, it has often been overlooked in the monolingual English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Alberto García-Durán , Akhil Arora , Robert West

Improvements of entity-relationship (E-R) search techniques have been hampered by a lack of test collections, particularly for complex queries involving multiple entities and relationships. In this paper we describe a method for generating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Pedro Saleiro , Natasa Milic-Frayling , Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues , Carlos Soares

The Natural Language Processing (NLP) community has significantly contributed to the solutions for entity and relation recognition from the text, and possibly linking them to proper matches in Knowledge Graphs (KGs). Considering Wikidata as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Ahmad Sakor , Kuldeep Singh , Anery Patel , Maria-Esther Vidal

A common approach for knowledge-base entity search is to consider an entity as a document with multiple fields. Models that focus on matching query terms in different fields are popular choices for searching such entity representations. An…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Shahrzad Naseri , Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar , James Allan

Entities are at the center of how we represent and aggregate knowledge. For instance, Encyclopedias such as Wikipedia are structured by entities (e.g., one per Wikipedia article). The ability to retrieve such entities given a query is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Nicola De Cao , Gautier Izacard , Sebastian Riedel , Fabio Petroni

Entity Linking (EL) and Relation Extraction (RE) are fundamental tasks in Natural Language Processing, serving as critical components in a wide range of applications. In this paper, we propose ReLiK, a Retriever-Reader architecture for both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Riccardo Orlando , Pere-Lluis Huguet Cabot , Edoardo Barba , Roberto Navigli

Entity linking aims to link ambiguous mentions to their corresponding entities in a knowledge base. One of the key challenges comes from insufficient labeled data for specific domains. Although dense retrievers have achieved excellent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Yulin Chen , Zhenran Xu , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang

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

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