Creating and Curating a Cross-Language Person-Entity Linking Collection

Dawn Lawrie, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Douglas Oard


Abstract
To stimulate research in cross-language entity linking, we present a new test collection for evaluating the accuracy of cross-language entity linking in twenty-one languages. This paper describes an efficient way to create and curate such a collection, judiciously exploiting existing language resources. Queries are created by semi-automatically identifying person names on the English side of a parallel corpus, using judgments obtained through crowdsourcing to identify the entity corresponding to the name, and projecting the English name onto the non-English document using word alignments. Name projections are then curated, again through crowdsourcing. This technique resulted in the first publicly available multilingual cross-language entity linking collection. The collection includes approximately 55,000 queries, comprising between 875 and 4,329 queries for each of twenty-one non-English languages.
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L12-1382
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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3106–3110
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/655_Paper.pdf
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Dawn Lawrie, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, and Douglas Oard. 2012. Creating and Curating a Cross-Language Person-Entity Linking Collection. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 3106–3110, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Creating and Curating a Cross-Language Person-Entity Linking Collection (Lawrie et al., LREC 2012)
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