Zero-shot Cross-Language Transfer of Monolingual Entity Linking Models

Elliot Schumacher, James Mayfield, Mark Dredze


Abstract
Most entity linking systems, whether mono or multilingual, link mentions to a single English knowledge base. Few have considered linking non-English text to a non-English KB, and therefore, transferring an English entity linking model to both a new document and KB language. We consider the task of zero-shot cross-language transfer of entity linking systems to a new language and KB. We find that a system trained with multilingual representations does reasonably well, and propose improvements to system training that lead to improved recall in most datasets, often matching the in-language performance. We further conduct a detailed evaluation to elucidate the challenges of this setting.
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2022.mrl-1.4
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Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Multi-lingual Representation Learning (MRL)
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December
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2022
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)
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Duygu Ataman, Hila Gonen, Sebastian Ruder, Orhan Firat, Gözde Gül Sahin, Jamshidbek Mirzakhalov
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MRL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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38–51
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.mrl-1.4
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.mrl-1.4
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Elliot Schumacher, James Mayfield, and Mark Dredze. 2022. Zero-shot Cross-Language Transfer of Monolingual Entity Linking Models. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Multi-lingual Representation Learning (MRL), pages 38–51, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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