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Accurately typing entity mentions from text segments is a fundamental task for various natural language processing applications. Many previous approaches rely on massive human-annotated data to perform entity typing. Nevertheless,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Yu Zhang , Yunyi Zhang , Yanzhen Shen , Yu Deng , Lucian Popa , Larisa Shwartz , ChengXiang Zhai , Jiawei Han

Entity typing (ET) is the problem of assigning labels to given entity mentions in a sentence. Existing works for ET require knowledge about the domain and target label set for a given test instance. ET in the absence of such knowledge is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Abhishek Abhishek , Amar Prakash Azad , Balaji Ganesan , Ashish Anand , Amit Awekar

Recently, the task of distantly supervised (DS) ultra-fine entity typing has received significant attention. However, DS data is noisy and often suffers from missing or wrong labeling issues resulting in low precision and low recall. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yue Zhang , Hongliang Fei , Ping Li

Conventional entity typing approaches are based on independent classification paradigms, which make them difficult to recognize inter-dependent, long-tailed and fine-grained entity types. In this paper, we argue that the implicitly entailed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Qing Liu , Hongyu Lin , Xinyan Xiao , Xianpei Han , Le Sun , Hua Wu

In standard methodology for natural language processing, entities in text are typically embedded in dense vector spaces with pre-trained models. The embeddings produced this way are effective when fed into downstream models, but they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Yasumasa Onoe , Greg Durrett

Fine-grained entity typing (FET), which assigns entities in text with context-sensitive, fine-grained semantic types, is a basic but important task for knowledge extraction from unstructured text. FET has been studied extensively in natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Tanay Komarlu , Minhao Jiang , Xuan Wang , Jiawei Han

Recent approaches leveraging multi-modal pre-trained models like CLIP for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) have shown significant promise in bridging domain gaps and improving generalization by utilizing rich semantic knowledge and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Tung-Long Vuong , Hoang Phan , Vy Vo , Anh Bui , Thanh-Toan Do , Trung Le , Dinh Phung

Embedding models typically associate each word with a single real-valued vector, representing its different properties. Evaluation methods, therefore, need to analyze the accuracy and completeness of these properties in embeddings. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh , Katharina Kann , Hinrich Schütze

Entity type tagging is the task of assigning category labels to each mention of an entity in a document. While standard systems focus on a small set of types, recent work (Ling and Weld, 2012) suggests that using a large fine-grained label…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Dan Gillick , Nevena Lazic , Kuzman Ganchev , Jesse Kirchner , David Huynh

Language models often pre-train on large unsupervised text corpora, then fine-tune on additional task-specific data. However, typical fine-tuning schemes do not prioritize the examples that they tune on. We show that, if you can prioritize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Ian Osband , Seyed Mohammad Asghari , Benjamin Van Roy , Nat McAleese , John Aslanides , Geoffrey Irving

This paper addresses the problem of corpus-level entity typing, i.e., inferring from a large corpus that an entity is a member of a class such as "food" or "artist". The application of entity typing we are interested in is knowledge base…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh , Heike Adel , Hinrich Schütze

Entity Typing (ET) is the process of identifying the semantic types of every entity within a corpus. In contrast to Named Entity Recognition, where each token in a sentence is labelled with zero or one class label, ET involves labelling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Michael Stewart , Wei Liu

Due to their capacity to acquire world knowledge from large corpora, pre-trained language models (PLMs) are extensively used in ultra-fine entity typing tasks where the space of labels is extremely large. In this work, we explore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Advait Deshmukh , Ashwin Umadi , Dananjay Srinivas , Maria Leonor Pacheco

More recently, Named Entity Recognition hasachieved great advances aided by pre-trainingapproaches such as BERT. However, currentpre-training techniques focus on building lan-guage modeling objectives to learn a gen-eral representation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Mengge Xue , Bowen Yu , Zhenyu Zhang , Tingwen Liu , Yue Zhang , Bin Wang

Training models on low-resource named entity recognition tasks has been shown to be a challenge, especially in industrial applications where deploying updated models is a continuous effort and crucial for business operations. In such cases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Peter Izsak , Shira Guskin , Moshe Wasserblat

In real-world scenarios, a text classification task often begins with a cold start, when labeled data is scarce. In such cases, the common practice of fine-tuning pre-trained models, such as BERT, for a target classification task, is prone…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Eyal Shnarch , Ariel Gera , Alon Halfon , Lena Dankin , Leshem Choshen , Ranit Aharonov , Noam Slonim

Fine-grained entity typing aims to assign entity mentions in the free text with types arranged in a hierarchical structure. Traditional distant supervision based methods employ a structured data source as a weak supervision and do not need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Denghui Zhang , Pengshan Cai , Yantao Jia , Manling Li , Yuanzhuo Wang , Xueqi Cheng

Neural entity typing models typically represent fine-grained entity types as vectors in a high-dimensional space, but such spaces are not well-suited to modeling these types' complex interdependencies. We study the ability of box…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Yasumasa Onoe , Michael Boratko , Andrew McCallum , Greg Durrett

Current systems of fine-grained entity typing use distant supervision in conjunction with existing knowledge bases to assign categories (type labels) to entity mentions. However, the type labels so obtained from knowledge bases are often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Xiang Ren , Wenqi He , Meng Qu , Clare R. Voss , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

Entity linking aims to link ambiguous mentions to their corresponding entities in a knowledge base, which is significant and fundamental for various downstream applications, e.g., knowledge base completion, question answering, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Xiuxing Li , Zhenyu Li , Zhengyan Zhang , Ning Liu , Haitao Yuan , Wei Zhang , Zhiyuan Liu , Jianyong Wang