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Entity linking aims to link ambiguous mentions to their corresponding entities in a knowledge base, which is significant and fundamental for various downstream applications, e.g., knowledge base completion, question answering, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Xiuxing Li , Zhenyu Li , Zhengyan Zhang , Ning Liu , Haitao Yuan , Wei Zhang , Zhiyuan Liu , Jianyong Wang

Linking biomedical entities is an essential aspect in biomedical natural language processing tasks, such as text mining and question answering. However, a difficulty of linking the biomedical entities using current large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Xi Yan , Cedric Möller , Ricardo Usbeck

A key challenge in entity linking is making effective use of contextual information to disambiguate mentions that might refer to different entities in different contexts. We present a model that uses convolutional neural networks to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Matthew Francis-Landau , Greg Durrett , Dan Klein

We present the Multilingual Entity Linking of Occupations (MELO) Benchmark, a new collection of 48 datasets for evaluating the linking of entity mentions in 21 languages to the ESCO Occupations multilingual taxonomy. MELO was built using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Federico Retyk , Luis Gasco , Casimiro Pio Carrino , Daniel Deniz , Rabih Zbib

Entity Linking (EL) is a fundamental task for Information Extraction and Knowledge Graphs. The general form of EL (i.e., end-to-end EL) aims to first find mentions in the given input document and then link the mentions to corresponding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Yinghui Li , Yong Jiang , Yangning Li , Xingyu Lu , Pengjun Xie , Ying Shen , Hai-Tao Zheng

Named entity recognition (NER) and relation extraction (RE) are two important tasks in information extraction and retrieval (IE \& IR). Recent work has demonstrated that it is beneficial to learn these tasks jointly, which avoids the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-01 John Giorgi , Xindi Wang , Nicola Sahar , Won Young Shin , Gary D. Bader , Bo Wang

Entity linking is a prominent thread of research focused on structured data creation by linking spans of text to an ontology or knowledge source. We revisit the use of structured prediction for entity linking which classifies each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hassan S. Shavarani , Anoop Sarkar

Entity linking aims to link ambiguous mentions to their corresponding entities in a knowledge base. One of the key challenges comes from insufficient labeled data for specific domains. Although dense retrievers have achieved excellent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Yulin Chen , Zhenran Xu , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang

Named entity linking is to map an ambiguous mention in documents to an entity in a knowledge base. The named entity linking is challenging, given the fact that there are multiple candidate entities for a mention in a document. It is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Wei Shi , Siyuan Zhang , Zhiwei Zhang , Hong Cheng , Jeffrey Xu Yu

Multimodal Entity Linking (MEL) is a crucial task that aims at linking ambiguous mentions within multimodal contexts to the referent entities in a multimodal knowledge base, such as Wikipedia. Existing methods focus heavily on using complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Liu Qi , He Yongyi , Lian Defu , Zheng Zhi , Xu Tong , Liu Che , Chen Enhong

Entity linking (EL) for the rapidly growing short text (e.g. search queries and news titles) is critical to industrial applications. Most existing approaches relying on adequate context for long text EL are not effective for the concise and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Yingjie Gu , Xiaoye Qu , Zhefeng Wang , Baoxing Huai , Nicholas Jing Yuan , Xiaolin Gui

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

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

Multimodal Entity Linking (MEL) aims to associate textual and visual mentions with entities in a multimodal knowledge graph. Despite its importance, current methods face challenges such as incomplete contextual information, coarse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Fang Wang , Tianwei Yan , Zonghao Yang , Minghao Hu , Jun Zhang , Zhunchen Luo , Xiaoying Bai

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has huge impact on our daily lives with applications such as voice assistants, facial recognition, chatbots, autonomously driving cars, etc. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a cross-discipline of AI and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Klim Zaporojets

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

Despite the advantages of their low-resource settings, traditional sparse retrievers depend on exact matching approaches between high-dimensional bag-of-words (BoW) representations of both the queries and the collection. As a result,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Dahlia Shehata

Entity Alignment (EA) aims to match equivalent entities in different Knowledge Graphs (KGs), which is essential for knowledge fusion and integration. Recently, embedding-based EA has attracted significant attention and many approaches have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Zhichun Wang , Xuan Chen

Measuring entity relatedness is a fundamental task for many natural language processing and information retrieval applications. Prior work often studies entity relatedness in static settings and an unsupervised manner. However, entities in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Tu Nguyen , Tuan Tran , Wolfgang Nejdl

Entity Linking (EL) and Relation Extraction (RE) are fundamental tasks in Natural Language Processing, serving as critical components in a wide range of applications. In this paper, we propose ReLiK, a Retriever-Reader architecture for both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Riccardo Orlando , Pere-Lluis Huguet Cabot , Edoardo Barba , Roberto Navigli