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Generative approaches powered by large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated emergent abilities in tasks that require complex reasoning abilities. Yet the generative nature still makes the generated content suffer from hallucinations,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Zilin Xiao , Ming Gong , Jie Wu , Xingyao Zhang , Linjun Shou , Jian Pei , Daxin Jiang

Building conversational agents that can have natural and knowledge-grounded interactions with humans requires understanding user utterances. Entity Linking (EL) is an effective and widely used method for understanding natural language text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Hideaki Joko , Faegheh Hasibi

Entity Linking (EL) is the gateway into Knowledge Bases. Recent advances in EL utilize dense retrieval approaches for Candidate Generation, which addresses some of the shortcomings of the Lookup based approach of matching NER mentions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Liam Hebert , Raheleh Makki , Shubhanshu Mishra , Hamidreza Saghir , Anusha Kamath , Yuval Merhav

Fine-grained entity typing is a challenging problem since it usually involves a relatively large tag set and may require to understand the context of the entity mention. In this paper, we use entity linking to help with the fine-grained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Hongliang Dai , Donghong Du , Xin Li , Yangqiu Song

Entity Linking (EL) seeks to align entity mentions in text to entries in a knowledge-base and is usually comprised of two phases: candidate generation and candidate ranking. While most methods focus on the latter, it is the candidate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Eleni Partalidou , Despina Christou , Grigorios Tsoumakas

Entity Linking has two main open areas of research: 1) generate candidate entities without using alias tables and 2) generate more contextual representations for both mentions and entities. Recently, a solution has been proposed for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Oshin Agarwal , Daniel M. Bikel

Entity Linking (EL) plays a crucial role in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, enabling the disambiguation of entity mentions by linking them to their corresponding entries in a reference knowledge base (KB). Thanks to their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Marta Boscariol , Luana Bulla , Lia Draetta , Beatrice Fiumanò , Emanuele Lenzi , Leonardo Piano

Generative approaches have been recently shown to be effective for both Entity Disambiguation and Entity Linking (i.e., joint mention detection and disambiguation). However, the previously proposed autoregressive formulation for EL suffers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Nicola De Cao , Wilker Aziz , Ivan Titov

We propose yet another entity linking model (YELM) which links words to entities instead of spans. This overcomes any difficulties associated with the selection of good candidate mention spans and makes the joint training of mention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Haotian Chen , Andrej Zukov-Gregoric , Xi David Li , Sahil Wadhwa

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

Entity linkage (EL) is a critical problem in data cleaning and integration. In the past several decades, EL has typically been done by rule-based systems or traditional machine learning models with hand-curated features, both of which…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Zhengyang Wang , Bunyamin Sisman , Hao Wei , Xin Luna Dong , Shuiwang Ji

Entity Linking (EL) has traditionally relied on large annotated datasets and extensive model fine-tuning. While recent few-shot methods leverage large language models (LLMs) through prompting to reduce training requirements, they often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yajie Li , Albert Galimov , Mitra Datta Ganapaneni , Pujitha Thejaswi , De Meng , Priyanshu Kumar , Saloni Potdar

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

Some Question Answering (QA) systems rely on knowledge bases (KBs) to provide accurate answers. Entity Linking (EL) plays a critical role in linking natural language mentions to KB entries. However, most existing EL methods are designed for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yajie Luo , Yihong Wu , Muzhi Li , Jia Ao Sun , Xinyu Wang , Liheng Ma , Yingxue Zhang , Jian-Yun Nie

Despite recent progress, Biomedical Entity Linking (BEL) with large language models (LLMs) remains computationally inefficient and challenging to deploy in practical settings. In this work, we demonstrate that instruction-tuning of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Darya Shlyk , Stefano Montanelli , Lawrence Hunter

Candidate generation is a crucial module in entity linking. It also plays a key role in multiple NLP tasks that have been proven to beneficially leverage knowledge bases. Nevertheless, it has often been overlooked in the monolingual English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Alberto García-Durán , Akhil Arora , Robert West

Entity linking (EL) is the task of linking entity mentions in a document to referent entities in a knowledge base (KB). Many previous studies focus on Wikipedia-derived KBs. There is little work on EL over Wikidata, even though it is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Tuan Manh Lai , Heng Ji , ChengXiang Zhai

In the legal domain it is important to differentiate between words in general, and afterwards to link the occurrences of the same entities. The topic to solve these challenges is called Named-Entity Linking (NEL). Current supervised neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Ahmed Elnaggar , Robin Otto , Florian Matthes

Entity linking is a standard component in modern retrieval system that is often performed by third-party toolkits. Despite the plethora of open source options, it is difficult to find a single system that has a modular architecture where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Johannes M. van Hulst , Faegheh Hasibi , Koen Dercksen , Krisztian Balog , Arjen P. de Vries

Biomedical entity linking is the task of identifying mentions of biomedical concepts in text documents and mapping them to canonical entities in a target thesaurus. Recent advancements in entity linking using BERT-based models follow a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Rajarshi Bhowmik , Karl Stratos , Gerard de Melo