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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

In spite of the remarkable advancements in the field of Natural Language Processing, the task of Entity Linking (EL) remains challenging in the field of humanities due to complex document typologies, lack of domain-specific datasets and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Cristian Santini , Sebastian Barzaghi , Paolo Sernani , Emanuele Frontoni , Mehwish Alam

We present JEL, a novel computationally efficient end-to-end multi-neural network based entity linking model, which beats current state-of-art model. Knowledge Graphs have emerged as a compelling abstraction for capturing critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Michael Kishelev , Pranab Bhadani , Wanying Ding , Vinay Chaudhri

Entity linking (EL) is the task of linking a textual mention to its corresponding entry in a knowledge base, and is critical for many knowledge-intensive NLP applications. When applied to tables in scientific papers, EL is a step toward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Yuze Lou , Bailey Kuehl , Erin Bransom , Sergey Feldman , Aakanksha Naik , Doug Downey

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 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

Most weakly supervised named entity recognition (NER) models rely on domain-specific dictionaries provided by experts. This approach is infeasible in many domains where dictionaries do not exist. While a phrase retrieval model was used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Hyunjae Kim , Jaehyo Yoo , Seunghyun Yoon , Jaewoo Kang

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

Linking entities like people, organizations, books, music groups and their songs in text to knowledge bases (KBs) is a fundamental task for many downstream search and mining applications. Achieving high disambiguation accuracy crucially…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Jaspreet Singh , Johannes Hoffart , Avishek Anand

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 (EL) is the process of associating ambiguous textual mentions to specific entities in a knowledge base. Traditional EL methods heavily rely on large datasets to enhance their performance, a dependency that becomes problematic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xukai Liu , Ye Liu , Kai Zhang , Kehang Wang , Qi Liu , Enhong Chen

Zero-shot entity linking (EL) aims at aligning entity mentions to unseen entities to challenge the generalization ability. Previous methods largely focus on the candidate retrieval stage and ignore the essential candidate ranking stage,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhenran Xu , Yulin Chen , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang

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

Despite considerable progress in neural relevance ranking techniques, search engines still struggle to process complex queries effectively - both in terms of precision and recall. Sparse and dense Pseudo-Relevance Feedback (PRF) approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Iain Mackie , Shubham Chatterjee , Sean MacAvaney , Jeffrey Dalton

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), the task of mapping textual entity mentions to their corresponding entries in knowledge bases, constitutes a fundamental component of natural language understanding. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jiajun Hou , Chenyu Zhang , Rui Meng

Named entity discovery and linking is the fundamental and core component of question answering. In Question Entity Discovery and Linking (QEDL) problem, traditional methods are challenged because multiple entities in one short question are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Kai Lei , Bing Zhang , Yong Liu , Yang Deng , Dongyu Zhang , Ying Shen

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

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

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