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Visual Entity Linking (VEL) is a task to link regions of images with their corresponding entities in Knowledge Bases (KBs), which is beneficial for many computer vision tasks such as image retrieval, image caption, and visual question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Wenxiang Sun , Yixing Fan , Jiafeng Guo , Ruqing Zhang , Xueqi Cheng

In this paper, we present ASPEN, an answer set programming (ASP) implementation of a recently proposed declarative framework for collective entity resolution (ER). While an ASP encoding had been previously suggested, several practical…

Cross-lingual Entity Linking (XEL) aims to ground entity mentions written in any language to an English Knowledge Base (KB), such as Wikipedia. XEL for most languages is challenging, owing to limited availability of resources as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Shyam Upadhyay , Nitish Gupta , Dan Roth

We introduce a new entity typing task: given a sentence with an entity mention, the goal is to predict a set of free-form phrases (e.g. skyscraper, songwriter, or criminal) that describe appropriate types for the target entity. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Eunsol Choi , Omer Levy , Yejin Choi , Luke Zettlemoyer

A conventional approach to entity linking is to first find mentions in a given document and then infer their underlying entities in the knowledge base. A well-known limitation of this approach is that it requires finding mentions without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Wenzheng Zhang , Wenyue Hua , Karl Stratos

Knowledge graphs represent real-world entities and their relations in a semantically-rich structure supported by ontologies. Exploring this data with machine learning methods often relies on knowledge graph embeddings, which produce latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Rita T. Sousa , Sara Silva , Catia Pesquita

Relation classification is an important NLP task to extract relations between entities. The state-of-the-art methods for relation classification are primarily based on Convolutional or Recurrent Neural Networks. Recently, the pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Shanchan Wu , Yifan He

Entity typing is the task of assigning semantic types to the entities that are mentioned in a text. In the case of fine-grained entity typing (FET), a large set of candidate type labels is considered. Since obtaining sufficient amounts of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Frank Mtumbuka , Steven Schockaert

Knowledge graphs have emerged as an important model for studying complex multi-relational data. This has given rise to the construction of numerous large scale but incomplete knowledge graphs encoding information extracted from various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Rakshit Trivedi , Bunyamin Sisman , Jun Ma , Christos Faloutsos , Hongyuan Zha , Xin Luna Dong

Named entity recognition (NER) and entity linking (EL) are two fundamentally related tasks, since in order to perform EL, first the mentions to entities have to be detected. However, most entity linking approaches disregard the mention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Pedro Henrique Martins , Zita Marinho , André F. T. Martins

Huge numbers of new words emerge every day, leading to a great need for representing them with semantic meaning that is understandable to NLP systems. Sememes are defined as the minimum semantic units of human languages, the combination of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Wei Li , Xuancheng Ren , Damai Dai , Yunfang Wu , Houfeng Wang , Xu Sun

Specialized entity linking (EL) models are well-trained at mapping mentions to unique knowledge base (KB) entities according to a given context. However, specialized EL models struggle to disambiguate long-tail entities due to their limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amy Xin , Yunjia Qi , Zijun Yao , Fangwei Zhu , Kaisheng Zeng , Xu Bin , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

Entity linking is the task of associating linguistic expressions with entries in a knowledge base that represent real-world entities and concepts. Language resources for this task have primarily been developed for English, and the resources…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Shohei Higashiyama , Masao Ideuchi , Masao Utiyama

Entity linking (EL) aligns textual mentions with their corresponding entities in a knowledge base, facilitating various applications such as semantic search and question answering. Recent advances in multimodal entity linking (MEL) have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Juyeon Kim , Geon Lee , Taeuk Kim , Kijung Shin

Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation (NERD) systems are foundational for information retrieval, question answering, event detection, and other natural language processing (NLP) applications. We introduce TweetNERD, a dataset of 340K+…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Shubhanshu Mishra , Aman Saini , Raheleh Makki , Sneha Mehta , Aria Haghighi , Ali Mollahosseini

We propose a simple and practical method for named entity linking (NEL), based on entity representation by multiple embeddings. To explore this method, and to review its dependency on parameters, we measure its performance on Namesakes, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Oleg Vasilyev , Alex Dauenhauer , Vedant Dharnidharka , John Bohannon

Microblogging is a model of content sharing in which the temporal locality of posts with respect to important events, either of foreseeable or unforeseeable nature, makes applica- tions of real-time filtering of great practical interest. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Giacomo Berardi , Diego Ceccarelli , Andrea Esuli , Diego Marcheggiani

Nested named entity recognition (nested NER) is a fundamental task in natural language processing. Various span-based methods have been proposed to detect nested entities with span representations. However, span-based methods do not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Shuhui Wu , Yongliang Shen , Zeqi Tan , Weiming Lu

Many machine learning applications require the ability to learn from and reason about noisy multi-relational data. To address this, several effective representations have been developed that provide both a language for expressing the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Matthias Brocheler , Lilyana Mihalkova , Lise Getoor

Most recent research on Text-to-SQL semantic parsing relies on either parser itself or simple heuristic based approach to understand natural language query (NLQ). When synthesizing a SQL query, there is no explicit semantic information of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Jun Wang , Patrick Ng , Alexander Hanbo Li , Jiarong Jiang , Zhiguo Wang , Ramesh Nallapati , Bing Xiang , Sudipta Sengupta