Entity Linking for Queries by Searching Wikipedia Sentences

Chuanqi Tan, Furu Wei, Pengjie Ren, Weifeng Lv, Ming Zhou


Abstract
We present a simple yet effective approach for linking entities in queries. The key idea is to search sentences similar to a query from Wikipedia articles and directly use the human-annotated entities in the similar sentences as candidate entities for the query. Then, we employ a rich set of features, such as link-probability, context-matching, word embeddings, and relatedness among candidate entities as well as their related entities, to rank the candidates under a regression based framework. The advantages of our approach lie in two aspects, which contribute to the ranking process and final linking result. First, it can greatly reduce the number of candidate entities by filtering out irrelevant entities with the words in the query. Second, we can obtain the query sensitive prior probability in addition to the static link-probability derived from all Wikipedia articles. We conduct experiments on two benchmark datasets on entity linking for queries, namely the ERD14 dataset and the GERDAQ dataset. Experimental results show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art systems and yields 75.0% in F1 on the ERD14 dataset and 56.9% on the GERDAQ dataset.
Anthology ID:
D17-1007
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Month:
September
Year:
2017
Address:
Copenhagen, Denmark
Editors:
Martha Palmer, Rebecca Hwa, Sebastian Riedel
Venue:
EMNLP
SIG:
SIGDAT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
68–77
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D17-1007
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D17-1007
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Chuanqi Tan, Furu Wei, Pengjie Ren, Weifeng Lv, and Ming Zhou. 2017. Entity Linking for Queries by Searching Wikipedia Sentences. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 68–77, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Entity Linking for Queries by Searching Wikipedia Sentences (Tan et al., EMNLP 2017)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/D17-1007.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/D17-1007.mp4