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Disentangling the encodings of neural models is a fundamental aspect for improving interpretability, semantic control and downstream task performance in Natural Language Processing. Currently, most disentanglement methods are unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Danilo S. Carvalho , Giangiacomo Mercatali , Yingji Zhang , Andre Freitas

Detection and disambiguation of all entities in text is a crucial task for a wide range of applications. The typical formulation of the problem involves two stages: detect mention boundaries and link all mentions to a knowledge base. For a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Christina Du , Kashyap Popat , Louis Martin , Fabio Petroni

Text representations using neural word embeddings have proven effective in many NLP applications. Recent researches adapt the traditional word embedding models to learn vectors of multiword expressions (concepts/entities). However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Walid Shalaby , Wlodek Zadrozny , Hongxia Jin

Entity Linking (EL) is the task of automatically identifying entity mentions in a piece of text and resolving them to a corresponding entity in a reference knowledge base like Wikipedia. There is a large number of EL tools available for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Renato Stoffalette João , Pavlos Fafalios , Stefan Dietze

We present a new local entity disambiguation system. The key to our system is a novel approach for learning entity representations. In our approach we learn an entity aware extension of Embedding for Language Model (ELMo) which we call…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Hamed Shahbazi , Xiaoli Z. Fern , Reza Ghaeini , Rasha Obeidat , Prasad Tadepalli

Entity disambiguation (ED) is the task of mapping an ambiguous entity mention to the corresponding entry in a structured knowledge base. Previous research showed that entity overshadowing is a significant challenge for existing ED models:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Vera Provatorova , Simone Tedeschi , Svitlana Vakulenko , Roberto Navigli , Evangelos Kanoulas

Relation extraction is an important but challenging task that aims to extract all hidden relational facts from the text. With the development of deep language models, relation extraction methods have achieved good performance on various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Sheng Zhang , Patrick Ng , Zhiguo Wang , Bing Xiang

Entity resolution is a widely studied problem with several proposals to match records across relations. Matching textual content is a widespread task in many applications, such as question answering and search. While recent methods achieve…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Naser Ahmadi , Hansjorg Sand , Paolo Papotti

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have positioned them as a prominent solution for Natural Language Processing tasks. Notably, they can approach these problems in a zero or few-shot manner, thereby eliminating the need for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Gerard Pons , Besim Bilalli , Anna Queralt

Humans exploit prior knowledge to describe images, and are able to adapt their explanation to specific contextual information, even to the extent of inventing plausible explanations when contextual information and images do not match. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Khanh Nguyen , Ali Furkan Biten , Andres Mafla , Lluis Gomez , Dimosthenis Karatzas

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

We address the Named Entity Disambiguation (NED) problem for short, user-generated texts on the social Web. In such settings, the lack of linguistic features and sparse lexical context result in a high degree of ambiguity and sharp…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Elizabeth L. Murnane , Bernhard Haslhofer , Carl Lagoze

Injecting textual information into knowledge graph (KG) entity representations has been a worthwhile expedition in terms of improving performance in KG oriented tasks within the NLP community. External knowledge often adopted to enhance KG…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Micheal Abaho , Yousef H. Alfaifi

Recent advances in Named Entity Recognition (NER) show that document-level contexts can significantly improve model performance. In many application scenarios, however, such contexts are not available. In this paper, we propose to find…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Xinyu Wang , Yong Jiang , Nguyen Bach , Tao Wang , Zhongqiang Huang , Fei Huang , Kewei Tu

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

Entity representations are useful in natural language tasks involving entities. In this paper, we propose new pretrained contextualized representations of words and entities based on the bidirectional transformer. The proposed model treats…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Ikuya Yamada , Akari Asai , Hiroyuki Shindo , Hideaki Takeda , Yuji Matsumoto

Neural network approaches to Named-Entity Recognition reduce the need for carefully hand-crafted features. While some features do remain in state-of-the-art systems, lexical features have been mostly discarded, with the exception of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Abbas Ghaddar , Philippe Langlais

Definition Extraction (DE) is one of the well-known topics in Information Extraction that aims to identify terms and their corresponding definitions in unstructured texts. This task can be formalized either as a sentence classification task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh , Franck Dernoncourt , Dejing Dou , Thien Huu Nguyen

While contextualized word representations have improved state-of-the-art benchmarks in many NLP tasks, their potential usefulness for social-oriented tasks remains largely unexplored. We show how contextualized word embeddings can be used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Anjalie Field , Yulia Tsvetkov

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