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The explosive growth of multimodal data has driven the rapid development of multimodal entity linking (MEL) models. However, existing studies have not systematically investigated the impact of visual adversarial attacks on MEL models. We…

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Document-level Relation Extraction (DRE) aims to recognize the relations between two entities. The entity may correspond to multiple mentions that span beyond sentence boundary. Few previous studies have investigated the mention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Chao Zhao , Daojian Zeng , Lu Xu , Jianhua Dai

Dense retrieval is widely used for entity linking to retrieve entities from large-scale knowledge bases. Mainstream techniques are based on a dual-encoder framework, which encodes mentions and entities independently and calculates their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yi Liu , Yuan Tian , Jianxun Lian , Xinlong Wang , Yanan Cao , Fang Fang , Wen Zhang , Haizhen Huang , Denvy Deng , Qi Zhang

This paper introduces MERLIN, a novel testbed system for the task of Multilingual Multimodal Entity Linking. The created dataset includes BBC news article titles, paired with corresponding images, in five languages: Hindi, Japanese,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Sathyanarayanan Ramamoorthy , Vishwa Shah , Simran Khanuja , Zaid Sheikh , Shan Jie , Ann Chia , Shearman Chua , Graham Neubig

We present mGENRE, a sequence-to-sequence system for the Multilingual Entity Linking (MEL) problem -- the task of resolving language-specific mentions to a multilingual Knowledge Base (KB). For a mention in a given language, mGENRE predicts…

Entity state tracking is a necessary component of world modeling that requires maintaining coherent representations of entities over time. Previous work has benchmarked entity tracking performance in purely text-based tasks. We introduce…

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Entities can be expressed in diverse formats, such as texts, images, or column names and cell values in tables. While existing entity linking (EL) models work well on per modality configuration, such as text-only EL, visual grounding, or…

Network representation learning (NRL) plays a vital role in a variety of tasks such as node classification and link prediction. It aims to learn low-dimensional vector representations for nodes based on network structures or node…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Ke Hou , Jiaying Liu , Yin Peng , Bo Xu , Ivan Lee , Feng Xia

Weakly supervised Referring Expression Grounding (REG) aims to ground a particular target in an image described by a language expression while lacking the correspondence between target and expression. Two main problems exist in weakly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Xuejing Liu , Liang Li , Shuhui Wang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Zechao Li , Qi Tian , Qingming Huang

Multi-modal named entity recognition (MNER) aims at identifying entity spans and recognizing their categories in social media posts with the aid of images. However, in dominant MNER approaches, the interaction of different modalities is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Junyu Lu , Dixiang Zhang , Pingjian Zhang

Document-level relation extraction aims to extract relations among entities within a document. Compared with its sentence-level counterpart, Document-level relation extraction requires inference over multiple sentences to extract complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Liang Zhang , Yidong Cheng

Document-level RE requires reading, inferring and aggregating over multiple sentences. From our point of view, it is necessary for document-level RE to take advantage of multi-granularity inference information: entity level, sentence level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Hengzhu Tang , Yanan Cao , Zhenyu Zhang , Jiangxia Cao , Fang Fang , Shi Wang , Pengfei Yin

Our study delves into Multimodal Entity Linking, aligning the mention in multimodal information with entities in knowledge base. Existing methods are still facing challenges like ambiguous entity representations and limited image…

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Mining structured knowledge from tweets using named entity recognition (NER) can be beneficial for many down stream applications such as recommendation and intention understanding. With tweet posts tending to be multimodal, multimodal named…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Peipei Liu , Hong Li , Yimo Ren , Jie Liu , Shuaizong Si , Hongsong Zhu , Limin Sun

Entity Linking is the task of matching a mention to an entity in a given knowledge base (KB). It contributes to annotating a massive amount of documents existing on the Web to harness new facts about their matched entities. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Hassan Soliman

We propose attribute-aware multimodal entity linking, where the input consists of a mention described with a text paragraph and images, and the goal is to predict the corresponding target entity from a multimodal knowledge base (KB) where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Barry Menglong Yao , Sijia Wang , Yu Chen , Qifan Wang , Minqian Liu , Zhiyang Xu , Licheng Yu , Lifu Huang

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

Multimodal relation extraction (MRE) is the task of identifying the semantic relationships between two entities based on the context of the sentence image pair. Existing retrieval-augmented approaches mainly focused on modeling the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Xuming Hu , Zhijiang Guo , Zhiyang Teng , Irwin King , Philip S. Yu

Multi-modal entity alignment (MMEA) aims to identify equivalent entities between two multi-modal knowledge graphs (MMKGs), whose entities can be associated with relational triples and related images. Most previous studies treat the graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Taoyu Su , Xinghua Zhang , Jiawei Sheng , Zhenyu Zhang , Tingwen Liu

Entity linking is the task of aligning mentions to corresponding entities in a given knowledge base. Previous studies have highlighted the necessity for entity linking systems to capture the global coherence. However, there are two common…

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