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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

An Entity Linking system aligns the textual mentions of entities in a text to their corresponding entries in a knowledge base. However, deploying a neural entity linking system for efficient real-time inference in production environments is…

Nowadays, the way in which the people interact with computers has changed. Text- or voice-based interfaces are being widely applied in different industries. Among the most used ways of processing the user input are those based on intents or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Rubén González Sendino , Mónica Ortega , Carlos Carrasco

Entity linking (EL) is the task of disambiguating mentions in text by associating them with entries in a predefined database of mentions (persons, organizations, etc). Most previous EL research has focused mainly on one language, English,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Avirup Sil , Radu Florian

A major challenge in Entity Linking (EL) is making effective use of contextual information to disambiguate mentions to Wikipedia that might refer to different entities in different contexts. The problem exacerbates with cross-lingual EL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Avirup Sil , Gourab Kundu , Radu Florian , Wael Hamza

We present a simple yet effective approach for linking entities in queries. The key idea is to search sentences similar to a query from Wikipedia articles and directly use the human-annotated entities in the similar sentences as candidate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Chuanqi Tan , Furu Wei , Pengjie Ren , Weifeng Lv , Ming Zhou

Entity linking (EL) is the task of linking a textual mention to its corresponding entry in a knowledge base, and is critical for many knowledge-intensive NLP applications. When applied to tables in scientific papers, EL is a step toward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Yuze Lou , Bailey Kuehl , Erin Bransom , Sergey Feldman , Aakanksha Naik , Doug Downey

Entity linking, the task of mapping textual mentions to known entities, has recently been tackled using contextualized neural networks. We address the question whether these results -- reported for large, high-quality datasets such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Nadja Kurz , Felix Hamann , Adrian Ulges

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) cannot well recall rich factual knowledge of entities exhibited in large-scale corpora, especially those rare entities. In this paper, we propose to build a simple but effective Pluggable Entity Lookup…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Deming Ye , Yankai Lin , Peng Li , Maosong Sun , Zhiyuan Liu

We introduce structured prediction energy networks (SPENs), a flexible framework for structured prediction. A deep architecture is used to define an energy function of candidate labels, and then predictions are produced by using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-08 David Belanger , Andrew McCallum

Named entity recognition (NER) is a widely studied task in natural language processing. Recently, a growing number of studies have focused on the nested NER. The span-based methods, considering the entity recognition as a span…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zeqi Tan , Yongliang Shen , Shuai Zhang , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang

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

Entity Linking (EL) is the process of associating ambiguous textual mentions to specific entities in a knowledge base. Traditional EL methods heavily rely on large datasets to enhance their performance, a dependency that becomes problematic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xukai Liu , Ye Liu , Kai Zhang , Kehang Wang , Qi Liu , Enhong Chen

Multimodal Entity Linking (MEL) is the task of mapping mentions with multimodal contexts to the referent entities from a knowledge base. Existing MEL methods mainly focus on designing complex multimodal interaction mechanisms and require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Senbao Shi , Zhenran Xu , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang

We present JEL, a novel computationally efficient end-to-end multi-neural network based entity linking model, which beats current state-of-art model. Knowledge Graphs have emerged as a compelling abstraction for capturing critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Michael Kishelev , Pranab Bhadani , Wanying Ding , Vinay Chaudhri

In this work, we present an entity linking model which combines a Transformer architecture with large scale pretraining from Wikipedia links. Our model achieves the state-of-the-art on two commonly used entity linking datasets: 96.7% on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Thibault Févry , Nicholas FitzGerald , Livio Baldini Soares , Tom Kwiatkowski

Question Answering systems are generally modelled as a pipeline consisting of a sequence of steps. In such a pipeline, Entity Linking (EL) is often the first step. Several EL models first perform span detection and then entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Debayan Banerjee , Debanjan Chaudhuri , Mohnish Dubey , Jens Lehmann

We propose a new framework, Translation between Augmented Natural Languages (TANL), to solve many structured prediction language tasks including joint entity and relation extraction, nested named entity recognition, relation classification,…

Modern entity linking systems rely on large collections of documents specifically annotated for the task (e.g., AIDA CoNLL). In contrast, we propose an approach which exploits only naturally occurring information: unlabeled documents and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Phong Le , Ivan Titov

Understanding the semantic meaning of tabular data requires Entity Linking (EL), in order to associate each cell value to a real-world entity in a Knowledge Base (KB). In this work, we focus on end-to-end solutions for EL on tabular data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Miltiadis Marios Katsakioris , Yiwei Zhou , Daniele Masato