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Entities and relationships between entities are vital in the real world. Essentially, we understand the world by understanding entities and relations. For instance, to understand a field, e.g., computer science, we need to understand the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jie Huang , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

Humans use language to refer to entities in the external world. Motivated by this, in recent years several models that incorporate a bias towards learning entity representations have been proposed. Such entity-centric models have shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Laura Aina , Carina Silberer , Matthijs Westera , Ionut-Teodor Sorodoc , Gemma Boleda

Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KBVQA) is a bi-modal task requiring external world knowledge in order to correctly answer a text question and associated image. Recent single modality text work has shown knowledge injection into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Diego Garcia-Olano , Yasumasa Onoe , Joydeep Ghosh

Knowledge base question answering (KBQA) is a challenging task that aims to retrieve correct answers from large-scale knowledge bases. Existing attempts primarily focus on entity representation and final answer reasoning, which results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Yong Cao , Xianzhi Li , Huiwen Liu , Wen Dai , Shuai Chen , Bin Wang , Min Chen , Daniel Hershcovich

Entity Alignment (EA) is vital for integrating diverse knowledge graph (KG) data, playing a crucial role in data-driven AI applications. Traditional EA methods primarily rely on comparing entity embeddings, but their effectiveness is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xuhui Jiang , Yinghan Shen , Zhichao Shi , Chengjin Xu , Wei Li , Zixuan Li , Jian Guo , Huawei Shen , Yuanzhuo Wang

Entity alignment is the task of finding entities in two knowledge bases (KBs) that represent the same real-world object. When facing KBs in different natural languages, conventional cross-lingual entity alignment methods rely on machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Zequn Sun , Wei Hu , Chengkai Li

The recent explosion of question answering (QA) datasets and models has increased the interest in the generalization of models across multiple domains and formats by either training on multiple datasets or by combining multiple models.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Haritz Puerto , Gözde Gül Şahin , Iryna Gurevych

Discovering the intended items of user queries from a massive repository of items is one of the main goals of an e-commerce search system. Relevance prediction is essential to the search system since it helps improve performance. When…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Jiong Cai , Yong Jiang , Yue Zhang , Chengyue Jiang , Ke Yu , Jianhui Ji , Rong Xiao , Haihong Tang , Tao Wang , Zhongqiang Huang , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Kewei Tu

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 relationship classification remains a challenging task in information extraction, especially in scenarios with limited labeled data and complex relational structures. In this study, we conduct a comparative analysis of three distinct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Maryam Berijanian , Kuldeep Singh , Amin Sehati

We introduce the task of entity-centric query refinement. Given an input query whose answer is a (potentially large) collection of entities, the task output is a small set of query refinements meant to assist the user in efficient domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-19 David Wadden , Nikita Gupta , Kenton Lee , Kristina Toutanova

We frame Question Answering (QA) as a Reinforcement Learning task, an approach that we call Active Question Answering. We propose an agent that sits between the user and a black box QA system and learns to reformulate questions to elicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Christian Buck , Jannis Bulian , Massimiliano Ciaramita , Wojciech Gajewski , Andrea Gesmundo , Neil Houlsby , Wei Wang

Rich entity representations are useful for a wide class of problems involving entities. Despite their importance, there is no standardized benchmark that evaluates the overall quality of entity representations. In this work, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Mingda Chen , Zewei Chu , Yang Chen , Karl Stratos , Kevin Gimpel

While Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents can be used to create highly engaging interactive applications through prompting personality traits and contextual data, effectively assessing their personalities has proven challenging. This…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Eswari Jayakumar , Niladri Sekhar Dash , Debasmita Mukherjee

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

Entity linking is a fundamental task in natural language processing which deals with the lexical ambiguity in texts. An important component in entity linking approaches is the mention-to-entity prior probability. Even though there is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Renato Stoffalette Joao

This paper focuses on a domain expert querying system over databases. It presents a solution designed for a French enterprise interested in offering a natural language interface for its clients. The approach, based on entity enrichment,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Joshua Amavi , Mirian Halfeld Ferrari , Nicolas Hiot

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

Entity matching is the task of deciding whether two entity descriptions refer to the same real-world entity. Entity matching is a central step in most data integration pipelines. Many state-of-the-art entity matching methods rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Ralph Peeters , Aaron Steiner , Christian Bizer

Entity linking aims to establish a link between entity mentions in a document and the corresponding entities in knowledge graphs (KGs). Previous work has shown the effectiveness of global coherence for entity linking. However, most of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Jian Sun , Yu Zhou , Chengqing Zong