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Training a custom ENTITY LINKING model with spaCy
spaCy is an open-source library for advanced Natural Language Processing in Python. In this video, we show you how to create a custom Entity Linking model in spaCy to disambiguate different mentions of the person "Emerson" to unique identifiers in a knowledge base. We accomplish this by training a machine learning model on some text annotated from scratch with Prodigy. You can follow along in this notebook: https://github.com/explosion/projects/tree/master/nel-emerson/scripts/notebook_video.ipynb
STEP BY STEP
00:00 – Introduction to the Entity Linking challenge
04:52 – Set up the knowledge base
10:30 – Annotate training data with Prodigy
19:19 – Parse the training data into the required format for spaCy
23:12 – Create and train the Entity Linking component
25:36 – Test the EL component o...
published: 07 May 2020
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Entity Linking
In this video I motivate the problem of entity linking, summarize the existing approaches, and discuss some open challenges.
published: 14 May 2021
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Entity linking historical document OCR by combining Wikidata and Wikipedia
Talk by Kai Labusch
Berlin State Library, Germany
Abstract:
Named entities like persons, locations and organisations are a prominent target for search in digitized collections. While named entity recognition can be used to automatically detect named entities in texts, through the additional disambiguation and linking of the entities to authority files their usability for retrieval and linking to other sources is significantly improved.
We used Wikidata to construct a comprehensive knowledge-base that holds information on linkable entities and combined it with a Wikipedia-derived corpus of text references that can be used by a neural network-based entity linking system to find references of entities in historical German texts. We demonstrate the feasibility of the approach on ~5,000,000 p...
published: 20 Sep 2023
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CoNEREL - Named Entity Recognition and Entity Linking
CoNEREL is a system to extract named entities such as persons, locations, organizations and map them to the corresponding profiles in a knowledge base (Wikipedia). It is also a tool to study the relationships between entities mentioned in news articles and readers’ comments.
Keywords: Named Entity Recognition (NER); Entity Linking (EL); Pair-Linking.
Related work and publications:
Pair-Linking for Collective Entity Disambiguation: Two Could Be Better Than All.
NeuPL: Attention-based Semantic Matching and Pair-Linking for Entity Disambiguation.
published: 27 Mar 2018
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Wikification: How a computer can look up things it doesn't know
This is a single lecture from a course. If you you like the material
and want more context (e.g., the lectures that came before), check out
the whole course:
https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/2021cl1webpage/
Resources:
* Non-neural Wikification
https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P11-1138/
* Neural Wikification
https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D17-1284/
* Wikification-powered QA
http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/docs/2020_www_delft.pdf
(Including homeworks and reading.)
Music: https://soundcloud.com/alvin-grissom-ii/review-and-rest
published: 07 Apr 2021
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Sofie Van Landeghem: Entity linking functionality in spaCy (spaCy IRL 2019)
Entity linking functionality in spaCy: grounding textual mentions to knowledge base concepts (Sofie Van Landeghem, Explosion)
● Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EuGxcQLcXvjjkZ-KRUlwpr_doBVyEBEG/view
● spaCy IRL 2019: https://irl.spacy.io/2019
● Sofie Van Landeghem on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OxyKodit
SPACY IRL 2019
We were pleased to invite the spaCy community and other folks working on Natural Language Processing to Berlin this summer for a small and intimate event July 6, 2019. We booked a beautiful venue in one of Berlin's coolest neighborhoods, hand-picked an awesome lineup of speakers and scheduled plenty of social time to get to know each other and exchange ideas.
CREDITS
● Jingle by Rachel Glassberg: https://rachelglassberg.com/music/
● Illustrations by Josephine Rais:...
published: 12 Jul 2019
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Personal Entity, Concept, and Named Entity Linking in Conversations
The CIKM 2022 presentation of the paper:
"Personal Entity, Concept, and Named Entity Linking in Conversations" by Hideki Joko and Faegheh Hasibi
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07836
Source code: https://github.com/informagi/conversational-entity-linking-2022
Abstract:
Building conversational agents that can have natural and knowledge grounded interactions with humans requires understanding user utterances. Entity Linking (EL) is an effective technique for understanding natural language text and connecting it to external knowledge. It is, however, shown that the existing EL methods developed for annotating documents are suboptimal for conversations, where concepts and personal entities (e.g., “my cars”) are essential for understanding user utterances. In this paper, we introduce a co...
published: 21 Feb 2023
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Contextualized End-to-End Neural Entity Linking
published: 21 Nov 2020
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Tutorial on Entity Linking (Speaker: Laura Dietz)
Abstract
Entity Linking or Entity Disambiguation refers to the task of aligning unstructured text to collections of linked data. Given a text that mentions an entity, the task is to establish a link between any substring that refers to an entity to the entity's entry in the knowledge base. For instance, in a text about the American University of Beirut, we want to identify all of the substrings that refer to AUB and annotate them with links into the knowledge base. In this talk we use Wikipedia as our example knowledge base, but approaches are directly applicable to any other collection of Linked Data.
A solution for Entity Linking is the key to extract more knowledge, such as facts and relations from text; Entity Linking provides the means to improve text retrieval (IR) and linked data ...
published: 29 Mar 2014
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Named Entity Linking (NEL): Connecting Entities to the World of Knowledge
Named Entity Linking (NEL) (https://schneppat.com/named-entity-linking-nel.html) is a crucial task in Natural Language Processing (NLP) (https://schneppat.com/natural-language-processing-nlp.html) that aims to associate named entities mentioned in text with their corresponding entries in a knowledge base or reference database. By leveraging various techniques, NEL enables machines to bridge the gap between textual mentions and the rich information available in structured knowledge sources. This process enhances the understanding of textual data and facilitates numerous applications such as information retrieval, question answering systems, and knowledge graph construction.
The Significance of NEL:
In today's information-rich world, connecting named entities to a knowledge base provid...
published: 30 Aug 2024
28:24
Training a custom ENTITY LINKING model with spaCy
spaCy is an open-source library for advanced Natural Language Processing in Python. In this video, we show you how to create a custom Entity Linking model in sp...
spaCy is an open-source library for advanced Natural Language Processing in Python. In this video, we show you how to create a custom Entity Linking model in spaCy to disambiguate different mentions of the person "Emerson" to unique identifiers in a knowledge base. We accomplish this by training a machine learning model on some text annotated from scratch with Prodigy. You can follow along in this notebook: https://github.com/explosion/projects/tree/master/nel-emerson/scripts/notebook_video.ipynb
STEP BY STEP
00:00 – Introduction to the Entity Linking challenge
04:52 – Set up the knowledge base
10:30 – Annotate training data with Prodigy
19:19 – Parse the training data into the required format for spaCy
23:12 – Create and train the Entity Linking component
25:36 – Test the EL component on unseen data
SPACY & PRODIGY
● spaCy: https://spacy.io
● Free online course: https://course.spacy.io
● Prodigy website & docs: https://prodi.gy
THIS TUTORIAL
● Code & data: https://github.com/explosion/projects/tree/master/nel-emerson/
● Entity linking in spaCy (spaCy IRL talk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW3RJM8tDGo&list=PLBmcuObd5An4UC6jvK_-eSl6jCvP1gwXc&index=6
● Entity linking docs: https://spacy.io/usage/training#entity-linker
FOLLOW US
● Sofie Van Landeghem: https://twitter.com/OxyKodit
● Explosion: https://twitter.com/explosion_ai
https://wn.com/Training_A_Custom_Entity_Linking_Model_With_Spacy
spaCy is an open-source library for advanced Natural Language Processing in Python. In this video, we show you how to create a custom Entity Linking model in spaCy to disambiguate different mentions of the person "Emerson" to unique identifiers in a knowledge base. We accomplish this by training a machine learning model on some text annotated from scratch with Prodigy. You can follow along in this notebook: https://github.com/explosion/projects/tree/master/nel-emerson/scripts/notebook_video.ipynb
STEP BY STEP
00:00 – Introduction to the Entity Linking challenge
04:52 – Set up the knowledge base
10:30 – Annotate training data with Prodigy
19:19 – Parse the training data into the required format for spaCy
23:12 – Create and train the Entity Linking component
25:36 – Test the EL component on unseen data
SPACY & PRODIGY
● spaCy: https://spacy.io
● Free online course: https://course.spacy.io
● Prodigy website & docs: https://prodi.gy
THIS TUTORIAL
● Code & data: https://github.com/explosion/projects/tree/master/nel-emerson/
● Entity linking in spaCy (spaCy IRL talk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW3RJM8tDGo&list=PLBmcuObd5An4UC6jvK_-eSl6jCvP1gwXc&index=6
● Entity linking docs: https://spacy.io/usage/training#entity-linker
FOLLOW US
● Sofie Van Landeghem: https://twitter.com/OxyKodit
● Explosion: https://twitter.com/explosion_ai
- published: 07 May 2020
- views: 50801
33:37
Entity Linking
In this video I motivate the problem of entity linking, summarize the existing approaches, and discuss some open challenges.
In this video I motivate the problem of entity linking, summarize the existing approaches, and discuss some open challenges.
https://wn.com/Entity_Linking
In this video I motivate the problem of entity linking, summarize the existing approaches, and discuss some open challenges.
- published: 14 May 2021
- views: 1705
33:00
Entity linking historical document OCR by combining Wikidata and Wikipedia
Talk by Kai Labusch
Berlin State Library, Germany
Abstract:
Named entities like persons, locations and organisations are a prominent target for search in digit...
Talk by Kai Labusch
Berlin State Library, Germany
Abstract:
Named entities like persons, locations and organisations are a prominent target for search in digitized collections. While named entity recognition can be used to automatically detect named entities in texts, through the additional disambiguation and linking of the entities to authority files their usability for retrieval and linking to other sources is significantly improved.
We used Wikidata to construct a comprehensive knowledge-base that holds information on linkable entities and combined it with a Wikipedia-derived corpus of text references that can be used by a neural network-based entity linking system to find references of entities in historical German texts. We demonstrate the feasibility of the approach on ~5,000,000 pages of historical German texts obtained by OCR and show how the entity linking results can be used to group the entire historical text corpus by latent dirichlet allocation. All software components are also released as open source for others to adapt and reuse.
SWIB23 Conference,11-13 September 2023, Berlin, Germany
http://swib.org/swib23/
#swib23
https://wn.com/Entity_Linking_Historical_Document_Ocr_By_Combining_Wikidata_And_Wikipedia
Talk by Kai Labusch
Berlin State Library, Germany
Abstract:
Named entities like persons, locations and organisations are a prominent target for search in digitized collections. While named entity recognition can be used to automatically detect named entities in texts, through the additional disambiguation and linking of the entities to authority files their usability for retrieval and linking to other sources is significantly improved.
We used Wikidata to construct a comprehensive knowledge-base that holds information on linkable entities and combined it with a Wikipedia-derived corpus of text references that can be used by a neural network-based entity linking system to find references of entities in historical German texts. We demonstrate the feasibility of the approach on ~5,000,000 pages of historical German texts obtained by OCR and show how the entity linking results can be used to group the entire historical text corpus by latent dirichlet allocation. All software components are also released as open source for others to adapt and reuse.
SWIB23 Conference,11-13 September 2023, Berlin, Germany
http://swib.org/swib23/
#swib23
- published: 20 Sep 2023
- views: 184
2:56
CoNEREL - Named Entity Recognition and Entity Linking
CoNEREL is a system to extract named entities such as persons, locations, organizations and map them to the corresponding profiles in a knowledge base (Wikipedi...
CoNEREL is a system to extract named entities such as persons, locations, organizations and map them to the corresponding profiles in a knowledge base (Wikipedia). It is also a tool to study the relationships between entities mentioned in news articles and readers’ comments.
Keywords: Named Entity Recognition (NER); Entity Linking (EL); Pair-Linking.
Related work and publications:
Pair-Linking for Collective Entity Disambiguation: Two Could Be Better Than All.
NeuPL: Attention-based Semantic Matching and Pair-Linking for Entity Disambiguation.
https://wn.com/Conerel_Named_Entity_Recognition_And_Entity_Linking
CoNEREL is a system to extract named entities such as persons, locations, organizations and map them to the corresponding profiles in a knowledge base (Wikipedia). It is also a tool to study the relationships between entities mentioned in news articles and readers’ comments.
Keywords: Named Entity Recognition (NER); Entity Linking (EL); Pair-Linking.
Related work and publications:
Pair-Linking for Collective Entity Disambiguation: Two Could Be Better Than All.
NeuPL: Attention-based Semantic Matching and Pair-Linking for Entity Disambiguation.
- published: 27 Mar 2018
- views: 1727
8:26
Wikification: How a computer can look up things it doesn't know
This is a single lecture from a course. If you you like the material
and want more context (e.g., the lectures that came before), check out
the whole course:
h...
This is a single lecture from a course. If you you like the material
and want more context (e.g., the lectures that came before), check out
the whole course:
https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/2021cl1webpage/
Resources:
* Non-neural Wikification
https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P11-1138/
* Neural Wikification
https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D17-1284/
* Wikification-powered QA
http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/docs/2020_www_delft.pdf
(Including homeworks and reading.)
Music: https://soundcloud.com/alvin-grissom-ii/review-and-rest
https://wn.com/Wikification_How_A_Computer_Can_Look_Up_Things_It_Doesn't_Know
This is a single lecture from a course. If you you like the material
and want more context (e.g., the lectures that came before), check out
the whole course:
https://sites.google.com/umd.edu/2021cl1webpage/
Resources:
* Non-neural Wikification
https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P11-1138/
* Neural Wikification
https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D17-1284/
* Wikification-powered QA
http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg/docs/2020_www_delft.pdf
(Including homeworks and reading.)
Music: https://soundcloud.com/alvin-grissom-ii/review-and-rest
- published: 07 Apr 2021
- views: 945
20:08
Sofie Van Landeghem: Entity linking functionality in spaCy (spaCy IRL 2019)
Entity linking functionality in spaCy: grounding textual mentions to knowledge base concepts (Sofie Van Landeghem, Explosion)
● Slides: https://drive.google.com...
Entity linking functionality in spaCy: grounding textual mentions to knowledge base concepts (Sofie Van Landeghem, Explosion)
● Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EuGxcQLcXvjjkZ-KRUlwpr_doBVyEBEG/view
● spaCy IRL 2019: https://irl.spacy.io/2019
● Sofie Van Landeghem on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OxyKodit
SPACY IRL 2019
We were pleased to invite the spaCy community and other folks working on Natural Language Processing to Berlin this summer for a small and intimate event July 6, 2019. We booked a beautiful venue in one of Berlin's coolest neighborhoods, hand-picked an awesome lineup of speakers and scheduled plenty of social time to get to know each other and exchange ideas.
CREDITS
● Jingle by Rachel Glassberg: https://rachelglassberg.com/music/
● Illustrations by Josephine Rais: https://josephinerais.com
https://wn.com/Sofie_Van_Landeghem_Entity_Linking_Functionality_In_Spacy_(Spacy_Irl_2019)
Entity linking functionality in spaCy: grounding textual mentions to knowledge base concepts (Sofie Van Landeghem, Explosion)
● Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EuGxcQLcXvjjkZ-KRUlwpr_doBVyEBEG/view
● spaCy IRL 2019: https://irl.spacy.io/2019
● Sofie Van Landeghem on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OxyKodit
SPACY IRL 2019
We were pleased to invite the spaCy community and other folks working on Natural Language Processing to Berlin this summer for a small and intimate event July 6, 2019. We booked a beautiful venue in one of Berlin's coolest neighborhoods, hand-picked an awesome lineup of speakers and scheduled plenty of social time to get to know each other and exchange ideas.
CREDITS
● Jingle by Rachel Glassberg: https://rachelglassberg.com/music/
● Illustrations by Josephine Rais: https://josephinerais.com
- published: 12 Jul 2019
- views: 10860
10:07
Personal Entity, Concept, and Named Entity Linking in Conversations
The CIKM 2022 presentation of the paper:
"Personal Entity, Concept, and Named Entity Linking in Conversations" by Hideki Joko and Faegheh Hasibi
Paper: https:...
The CIKM 2022 presentation of the paper:
"Personal Entity, Concept, and Named Entity Linking in Conversations" by Hideki Joko and Faegheh Hasibi
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07836
Source code: https://github.com/informagi/conversational-entity-linking-2022
Abstract:
Building conversational agents that can have natural and knowledge grounded interactions with humans requires understanding user utterances. Entity Linking (EL) is an effective technique for understanding natural language text and connecting it to external knowledge. It is, however, shown that the existing EL methods developed for annotating documents are suboptimal for conversations, where concepts and personal entities (e.g., “my cars”) are essential for understanding user utterances. In this paper, we introduce a collection and a tool for entity linking in conversations. We provide EL annotations for 1,327 conversational utterances, consisting of links to named entities, concepts, and personal entities. The dataset is used for training our toolkit for conversational entity linking, CREL. Unlike existing EL methods, CREL is developed to identify both named entities and concepts. It also utilizes coreference resolution techniques to identify personal entities and their references to the explicit entity mentions in the conversations. We compare CREL with state-of-the-art techniques and show that it outperforms all existing baselines.
https://wn.com/Personal_Entity,_Concept,_And_Named_Entity_Linking_In_Conversations
The CIKM 2022 presentation of the paper:
"Personal Entity, Concept, and Named Entity Linking in Conversations" by Hideki Joko and Faegheh Hasibi
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07836
Source code: https://github.com/informagi/conversational-entity-linking-2022
Abstract:
Building conversational agents that can have natural and knowledge grounded interactions with humans requires understanding user utterances. Entity Linking (EL) is an effective technique for understanding natural language text and connecting it to external knowledge. It is, however, shown that the existing EL methods developed for annotating documents are suboptimal for conversations, where concepts and personal entities (e.g., “my cars”) are essential for understanding user utterances. In this paper, we introduce a collection and a tool for entity linking in conversations. We provide EL annotations for 1,327 conversational utterances, consisting of links to named entities, concepts, and personal entities. The dataset is used for training our toolkit for conversational entity linking, CREL. Unlike existing EL methods, CREL is developed to identify both named entities and concepts. It also utilizes coreference resolution techniques to identify personal entities and their references to the explicit entity mentions in the conversations. We compare CREL with state-of-the-art techniques and show that it outperforms all existing baselines.
- published: 21 Feb 2023
- views: 73
39:38
Tutorial on Entity Linking (Speaker: Laura Dietz)
Abstract
Entity Linking or Entity Disambiguation refers to the task of aligning unstructured text to collections of linked data. Given a text that mentions an ...
Abstract
Entity Linking or Entity Disambiguation refers to the task of aligning unstructured text to collections of linked data. Given a text that mentions an entity, the task is to establish a link between any substring that refers to an entity to the entity's entry in the knowledge base. For instance, in a text about the American University of Beirut, we want to identify all of the substrings that refer to AUB and annotate them with links into the knowledge base. In this talk we use Wikipedia as our example knowledge base, but approaches are directly applicable to any other collection of Linked Data.
A solution for Entity Linking is the key to extract more knowledge, such as facts and relations from text; Entity Linking provides the means to improve text retrieval (IR) and linked data retrieval.
In this talk I am going to cover several approaches to Entity Linking from simple to complex and discuss advantages and shortcomings. Different approaches will make use of natural language processing, information retrieval, machine learning and graphical probabilistic models.
Bio
Dr. Laura Dietz is a post-doctoral researcher working with Bruce Croft at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) at the University of Massachusetts. Before that she was working with Andrew McCallum at University of Massachusetts. She obtained her doctoral degree with a thesis on topic models for networked data from Max Planck Institute for Informatik in early 2011, being supervised by Tobias Scheffer and Gerhard Weikum.
https://wn.com/Tutorial_On_Entity_Linking_(Speaker_Laura_Dietz)
Abstract
Entity Linking or Entity Disambiguation refers to the task of aligning unstructured text to collections of linked data. Given a text that mentions an entity, the task is to establish a link between any substring that refers to an entity to the entity's entry in the knowledge base. For instance, in a text about the American University of Beirut, we want to identify all of the substrings that refer to AUB and annotate them with links into the knowledge base. In this talk we use Wikipedia as our example knowledge base, but approaches are directly applicable to any other collection of Linked Data.
A solution for Entity Linking is the key to extract more knowledge, such as facts and relations from text; Entity Linking provides the means to improve text retrieval (IR) and linked data retrieval.
In this talk I am going to cover several approaches to Entity Linking from simple to complex and discuss advantages and shortcomings. Different approaches will make use of natural language processing, information retrieval, machine learning and graphical probabilistic models.
Bio
Dr. Laura Dietz is a post-doctoral researcher working with Bruce Croft at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) at the University of Massachusetts. Before that she was working with Andrew McCallum at University of Massachusetts. She obtained her doctoral degree with a thesis on topic models for networked data from Max Planck Institute for Informatik in early 2011, being supervised by Tobias Scheffer and Gerhard Weikum.
- published: 29 Mar 2014
- views: 6195
12:19
Named Entity Linking (NEL): Connecting Entities to the World of Knowledge
Named Entity Linking (NEL) (https://schneppat.com/named-entity-linking-nel.html) is a crucial task in Natural Language Processing (NLP) (https://schneppat.com/...
Named Entity Linking (NEL) (https://schneppat.com/named-entity-linking-nel.html) is a crucial task in Natural Language Processing (NLP) (https://schneppat.com/natural-language-processing-nlp.html) that aims to associate named entities mentioned in text with their corresponding entries in a knowledge base or reference database. By leveraging various techniques, NEL enables machines to bridge the gap between textual mentions and the rich information available in structured knowledge sources. This process enhances the understanding of textual data and facilitates numerous applications such as information retrieval, question answering systems, and knowledge graph construction.
The Significance of NEL:
In today's information-rich world, connecting named entities to a knowledge base provides a deeper level of context and enables more comprehensive analysis. NEL enables systems to access additional information related to entities, such as their attributes, relationships, and semantic connections, thus enhancing the quality and richness of the extracted information.
Challenges in NEL:
Named Entity Linking poses several challenges due to the complexities of language, entity ambiguity, and the vastness of knowledge bases. Some key challenges include:
1. Entity Disambiguation: Identifying the correct entity when an entity mention is ambiguous or has multiple possible interpretations. Resolving these ambiguities requires contextual understanding and leveraging various clues within the text.
2. Knowledge Base Coverage: Knowledge bases may not encompass all entities mentioned in text, especially for emerging or domain-specific entities. Handling out-of-vocabulary or rare entities becomes a challenge in NEL.
3. Named Entity Variation: Entities can have different forms, such as acronyms, abbreviations, or alternative names. Linking these variations to the corresponding entity in the knowledge base requires robust techniques that can handle such variability.
Approaches to NEL:
NEL techniques employ a combination of linguistic analysis, machine learning (https://schneppat.com/machine-learning-ml.html) , and information retrieval strategies. These approaches leverage entity recognition (https://schneppat.com/named-entity-recognition-ner.html) and disambiguation algorithms to determine the context and semantic meaning of named entities.
Conclusion:
Named Entity Linking is a vital component in unlocking the potential of textual data by connecting named entities to the world of knowledge. Overcoming challenges in entity disambiguation, knowledge base coverage, and named entity variation is crucial for accurate and robust NEL. As NEL techniques advance, we can expect improved systems that seamlessly link entities to knowledge bases, paving the way for enhanced information extraction, knowledge management, and intelligent applications in diverse domains.
Kind regards by Schneppat AI (https://schneppat.com)
https://wn.com/Named_Entity_Linking_(Nel)_Connecting_Entities_To_The_World_Of_Knowledge
Named Entity Linking (NEL) (https://schneppat.com/named-entity-linking-nel.html) is a crucial task in Natural Language Processing (NLP) (https://schneppat.com/natural-language-processing-nlp.html) that aims to associate named entities mentioned in text with their corresponding entries in a knowledge base or reference database. By leveraging various techniques, NEL enables machines to bridge the gap between textual mentions and the rich information available in structured knowledge sources. This process enhances the understanding of textual data and facilitates numerous applications such as information retrieval, question answering systems, and knowledge graph construction.
The Significance of NEL:
In today's information-rich world, connecting named entities to a knowledge base provides a deeper level of context and enables more comprehensive analysis. NEL enables systems to access additional information related to entities, such as their attributes, relationships, and semantic connections, thus enhancing the quality and richness of the extracted information.
Challenges in NEL:
Named Entity Linking poses several challenges due to the complexities of language, entity ambiguity, and the vastness of knowledge bases. Some key challenges include:
1. Entity Disambiguation: Identifying the correct entity when an entity mention is ambiguous or has multiple possible interpretations. Resolving these ambiguities requires contextual understanding and leveraging various clues within the text.
2. Knowledge Base Coverage: Knowledge bases may not encompass all entities mentioned in text, especially for emerging or domain-specific entities. Handling out-of-vocabulary or rare entities becomes a challenge in NEL.
3. Named Entity Variation: Entities can have different forms, such as acronyms, abbreviations, or alternative names. Linking these variations to the corresponding entity in the knowledge base requires robust techniques that can handle such variability.
Approaches to NEL:
NEL techniques employ a combination of linguistic analysis, machine learning (https://schneppat.com/machine-learning-ml.html) , and information retrieval strategies. These approaches leverage entity recognition (https://schneppat.com/named-entity-recognition-ner.html) and disambiguation algorithms to determine the context and semantic meaning of named entities.
Conclusion:
Named Entity Linking is a vital component in unlocking the potential of textual data by connecting named entities to the world of knowledge. Overcoming challenges in entity disambiguation, knowledge base coverage, and named entity variation is crucial for accurate and robust NEL. As NEL techniques advance, we can expect improved systems that seamlessly link entities to knowledge bases, paving the way for enhanced information extraction, knowledge management, and intelligent applications in diverse domains.
Kind regards by Schneppat AI (https://schneppat.com)
- published: 30 Aug 2024
- views: 0