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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 (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

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

Multimodal Entity Linking (MEL) aims to associate textual and visual mentions with entities in a multimodal knowledge graph. Despite its importance, current methods face challenges such as incomplete contextual information, coarse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Fang Wang , Tianwei Yan , Zonghao Yang , Minghao Hu , Jun Zhang , Zhunchen Luo , Xiaoying Bai

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

Multimodal Entity Linking (MEL) is a crucial task that aims at linking ambiguous mentions within multimodal contexts to the referent entities in a multimodal knowledge base, such as Wikipedia. Existing methods focus heavily on using complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Liu Qi , He Yongyi , Lian Defu , Zheng Zhi , Xu Tong , Liu Che , Chen Enhong

Biomedical entity linking (BioEL) has achieved remarkable progress with the help of pre-trained language models. However, existing BioEL methods usually struggle to handle rare and difficult entities due to long-tailed distribution. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Zhenxi Lin , Ziheng Zhang , Xian Wu , Yefeng Zheng

This paper describes the USTC_NELSLIP systems submitted to the Trilingual Entity Detection and Linking (EDL) track in 2016 TAC Knowledge Base Population (KBP) contests. We have built two systems for entity discovery and mention detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Dan Liu , Wei Lin , Shiliang Zhang , Si Wei , Hui Jiang

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

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

In entity linking, mentions of named entities in raw text are disambiguated against a knowledge base (KB). This work focuses on linking to unseen KBs that do not have training data and whose schema is unknown during training. Our approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Yogarshi Vyas , Miguel Ballesteros

Community Question Answering (CQA) platforms contain plenty of CQA texts (i.e., questions and answers corresponding to the question) where named entities appear ubiquitously. In this paper, we define a new task of CQA entity linking (CQAEL)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yuhan Li , Wei Shen , Jianbo Gao , Yadong Wang

Cross-lingual entity linking (XEL) is the task of finding referents in a target-language knowledge base (KB) for mentions extracted from source-language texts. The first step of (X)EL is candidate generation, which retrieves a list of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Shuyan Zhou , Shruti Rijhwani , John Wieting , Jaime Carbonell , Graham Neubig

Multi-source entity linkage focuses on integrating knowledge from multiple sources by linking the records that represent the same real world entity. This is critical in high-impact applications such as data cleaning and user stitching. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Di Jin , Bunyamin Sisman , Hao Wei , Xin Luna Dong , Danai Koutra

We present the zero-shot entity linking task, where mentions must be linked to unseen entities without in-domain labeled data. The goal is to enable robust transfer to highly specialized domains, and so no metadata or alias tables are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Lajanugen Logeswaran , Ming-Wei Chang , Kenton Lee , Kristina Toutanova , Jacob Devlin , Honglak Lee

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…

Biomedical entity linking (BEL) is the task of grounding entity mentions to a knowledge base. It plays a vital role in information extraction pipelines for the life sciences literature. We review recent work in the field and find that, as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Samuele Garda , Leon Weber-Genzel , Robert Martin , Ulf Leser

We present a novel architecture, In-Database Entity Linking (IDEL), in which we integrate the analytics-optimized RDBMS MonetDB with neural text mining abilities. Our system design abstracts core tasks of most neural entity linking systems…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Torsten Kilias , Alexander Löser , Felix A. Gers , Richard Koopmanschap , Ying Zhang , Martin Kersten

We present DualNER, a simple and effective framework to make full use of both annotated source language corpus and unlabeled target language text for zero-shot cross-lingual named entity recognition (NER). In particular, we combine two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jiali Zeng , Yufan Jiang , Yongjing Yin , Xu Wang , Binghuai Lin , Yunbo Cao