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Entity linking (EL) for biomedical text is typically benchmarked on English-only corpora with flat mentions, leaving the more realistic scenario of nested and multilingual mentions largely unexplored. We present our system for the BioNNE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Chunyu Li , Xindi Zheng , Siqi Liu

Entity Linking (EL) is an essential task for semantic text understanding and information extraction. Popular methods separately address the Mention Detection (MD) and Entity Disambiguation (ED) stages of EL, without leveraging their mutual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Nikolaos Kolitsas , Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Thomas Hofmann

Entities lie in the heart of biomedical natural language understanding, and the biomedical entity linking (EL) task remains challenging due to the fine-grained and diversiform concept names. Generative methods achieve remarkable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Hongyi Yuan , Zheng Yuan , Sheng Yu

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

Clinical text is rich in information, with mentions of treatment, medication and anatomy among many other clinical terms. Multiple terms can refer to the same core concepts which can be referred as a clinical entity. Ontologies like the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Akshit Achara , Sanand Sasidharan , Gagan N

Understanding the meaning of text often involves reasoning about entities and their relationships. This requires identifying textual mentions of entities, linking them to a canonical concept, and discerning their relationships. These tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Trapit Bansal , Pat Verga , Neha Choudhary , Andrew McCallum

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

Pretrained language models have shown success in many natural language processing tasks. Many works explore incorporating knowledge into language models. In the biomedical domain, experts have taken decades of effort on building large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Zheng Yuan , Yijia Liu , Chuanqi Tan , Songfang Huang , Fei Huang

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

Accurate recognition of biomedical named entities is critical for medical information extraction and knowledge discovery. However, existing methods often struggle with nested entities, entity boundary ambiguity, and cross-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Tengxiao Lv , Ling Luo , Juntao Li , Yanhua Wang , Yuchen Pan , Chao Liu , Yanan Wang , Yan Jiang , Huiyi Lv , Yuanyuan Sun , Jian Wang , Hongfei Lin

Motivation: State-of-the-art biomedical named entity recognition (BioNER) systems often require handcrafted features specific to each entity type, such as genes, chemicals and diseases. Although recent studies explored using neural network…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Xuan Wang , Yu Zhang , Xiang Ren , Yuhao Zhang , Marinka Zitnik , Jingbo Shang , Curtis Langlotz , Jiawei Han

Disease name recognition and normalization, which is generally called biomedical entity linking, is a fundamental process in biomedical text mining. Recently, neural joint learning of both tasks has been proposed to utilize the mutual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Shogo Ujiie , Hayate Iso , Shuntaro Yada , Shoko Wakamiya , Eiji Aramaki

Motivation: Biomedical named-entity normalization involves connecting biomedical entities with distinct database identifiers in order to facilitate data integration across various fields of biology. Existing systems for biomedical named…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zainab Awan , Tim Kahlke , Peter Ralph , Paul Kennedy

This survey presents a comprehensive description of recent neural entity linking (EL) systems developed since 2015 as a result of the "deep learning revolution" in natural language processing. Its goal is to systemize design features of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Ozge Sevgili , Artem Shelmanov , Mikhail Arkhipov , Alexander Panchenko , Chris Biemann

Entity linking (or Normalization) is an essential task in text mining that maps the entity mentions in the medical text to standard entities in a given Knowledge Base (KB). This task is of great importance in the medical domain. It can also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Ishani Mondal , Sukannya Purkayastha , Sudeshna Sarkar , Pawan Goyal , Jitesh Pillai , Amitava Bhattacharyya , Mahanandeeshwar Gattu

The availability of biomedical text data and advances in natural language processing (NLP) have made new applications in biomedical NLP possible. Language models trained or fine tuned using domain specific corpora can outperform general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Usman Naseem , Adam G. Dunn , Matloob Khushi , Jinman Kim

Biomedical entity linking is the task of linking entity mentions in a biomedical document to referent entities in a knowledge base. Recently, many BERT-based models have been introduced for the task. While these models have achieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Tuan Lai , Heng Ji , ChengXiang Zhai

Biomedical named entity recognition (BNER) serves as the foundation for numerous biomedical text mining tasks. Unlike general NER, BNER require a comprehensive grasp of the domain, and incorporating external knowledge beyond training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Junyi Bian , Rongze Jiang , Weiqi Zhai , Tianyang Huang , Hong Zhou , Shanfeng Zhu

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated dominating performance in many NLP tasks, especially on generative tasks. However, they often fall short in some information extraction tasks, particularly those requiring domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Junyi Bian , Jiaxuan Zheng , Yuyi Zhang , Shanfeng Zhu

Entity linking (mapping ambiguous mentions in text to entities in a knowledge base) is a foundational step in tasks such as knowledge graph construction, question-answering, and information extraction. Our method, LELA, is a modular…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Samy Haffoudhi , Fabian M. Suchanek , Nils Holzenberger