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Multimodal entity linking (MEL) task, which aims at resolving ambiguous mentions to a multimodal knowledge graph, has attracted wide attention in recent years. Though large efforts have been made to explore the complementary effect among…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Pengfei Luo , Tong Xu , Shiwei Wu , Chen Zhu , Linli Xu , Enhong Chen

Recognizing coreferring events and entities across multiple texts is crucial for many NLP applications. Despite the task's importance, research focus was given mostly to within-document entity coreference, with rather little attention to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Shany Barhom , Vered Shwartz , Alon Eirew , Michael Bugert , Nils Reimers , Ido Dagan

In-context learning (ICL) enables large language models (LLMs) to perform new tasks using only a few demonstrations. However, in Named Entity Recognition (NER), existing ICL methods typically rely on task-agnostic semantic similarity for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Fan Bai , Hamid Hassanzadeh , Ardavan Saeedi , Mark Dredze

Entity linking - connecting entity mentions in a natural language utterance to knowledge graph (KG) entities is a crucial step for question answering over KGs. It is often based on measuring the string similarity between the entity label…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Rostislav Nedelchev , Debanjan Chaudhuri , Jens Lehmann , Asja Fischer

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

Multimodal Entity Linking (MEL) is a fundamental task in data management that maps ambiguous mentions with diverse modalities to the multimodal entities in a knowledge base. However, most existing MEL approaches primarily focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Mo Zhou , Jianwei Wang , Kai Wang , Helen Paik , Ying Zhang , Wenjie Zhang

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

Standardizing food terms from product labels and menus into ontology concepts is a prerequisite for trustworthy dietary assessment and safety reporting. The dominant approach to Named Entity Linking (NEL) in the food and nutrition domains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Jan Drole , Ana Gjorgjevikj , Barbara Korouši'c Seljak , Tome Eftimov

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

Entity linking is the task of linking mentions of named entities in natural language text, to entities in a curated knowledge-base. This is of significant importance in the biomedical domain, where it could be used to semantically annotate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Ming Zhu , Busra Celikkaya , Parminder Bhatia , Chandan K. Reddy

We present an interactive visualization system for exploring named entities and their relationships across document collections. The system is designed around a graph-based representation that integrates three types of nodes: documents,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Uroš Šmajdek , Ciril Bohak

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

Web-scale visual entity recognition, the task of associating images with their corresponding entities within vast knowledge bases like Wikipedia, presents significant challenges due to the lack of clean, large-scale training data. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Mathilde Caron , Alireza Fathi , Cordelia Schmid , Ahmet Iscen

Entity linking is a key component of many downstream NLP systems, yet existing approaches are often tied to the specific target knowledge bases and domains, limiting their real world application. In this paper, we extend LELA, a modular and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Samy Haffoudhi , Nikola Dobričić , Fabian Suchanek , Nils Holzenberger

Climate Change (CC) is a pressing topic of global importance, attracting increasing attention across research fields, from social sciences to Natural Language Processing (NLP). CC is also discussed in various settings and communication…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Shijia Zhou , Siyao Peng , Barbara Plank

We present WISER, a new semantic search engine for expert finding in academia. Our system is unsupervised and it jointly combines classical language modeling techniques, based on text evidences, with the Wikipedia Knowledge Graph, via…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Paolo Cifariello , Paolo Ferragina , Marco Ponza

Understanding a long document requires tracking how entities are introduced and evolve over time. We present a new type of language model, EntityNLM, that can explicitly model entities, dynamically update their representations, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Yangfeng Ji , Chenhao Tan , Sebastian Martschat , Yejin Choi , Noah A. Smith

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

With the AI revolution in place, the trend for building automated systems to support professionals in different domains such as the open source software systems, healthcare systems, banking systems, transportation systems and many others…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Somnath Banerjee , Avik Dutta , Aaditya Agrawal , Rima Hazra , Animesh Mukherjee

Rich entity representations are useful for a wide class of problems involving entities. Despite their importance, there is no standardized benchmark that evaluates the overall quality of entity representations. In this work, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Mingda Chen , Zewei Chu , Yang Chen , Karl Stratos , Kevin Gimpel