Cross-language Article Linking Using Cross-Encyclopedia Entity Embedding

Chun-Kai Wu, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai


Abstract
Cross-language article linking (CLAL) is the task of finding corresponding article pairs of different languages across encyclopedias. This task is a difficult disambiguation problem in which one article must be selected among several candidate articles with similar titles and contents. Existing works focus on engineering text-based or link-based features for this task, which is a time-consuming job, and some of these features are only applicable within the same encyclopedia. In this paper, we address these problems by proposing cross-encyclopedia entity embedding. Unlike other works, our proposed method does not rely on known cross-language pairs. We apply our method to CLAL between English Wikipedia and Chinese Baidu Baike. Our features improve performance relative to the baseline by 29.62%. Tested 30 times, our system achieved an average improvement of 2.76% over the current best system (26.86% over baseline), a statistically significant result.
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N18-2054
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers)
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June
Year:
2018
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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Marilyn Walker, Heng Ji, Amanda Stent
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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334–339
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https://aclanthology.org/N18-2054/
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N18-2054
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Chun-Kai Wu and Richard Tzong-Han Tsai. 2018. Cross-language Article Linking Using Cross-Encyclopedia Entity Embedding. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers), pages 334–339, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Cross-language Article Linking Using Cross-Encyclopedia Entity Embedding (Wu & Tsai, NAACL 2018)
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