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Collective Entity Linking with Joint Subgraphs

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Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC 2023)

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The problem of collective methods based on graph presents challenges: given mentions and their candidate entities, methods need to build graphs to model correlation of linking decisions between different mentions. In this paper, we propose three ideas: (i) build subgraphs made up of partial mentions instead of those in the entire document to improve computation efficiency, (ii) perform joint disambiguation over context and knowledge base (KB), and (iii) identify closely related knowledge from KB. With regard to above innovations, we propose EL-Graph, which addresses the challenges of collective methods: (i) attention mechanism, where we select low attention scores of partial mentions of a document to form a subgraph to improve the computation efficiency, (ii) joint disambiguation, where we connect mention context and KB to form a joint graph, gather and spread the message to update their node representations simultaneously through graph neural networks, and (iii) relevance scoring, where we compute similarity to estimate importance of KB nodes relative to the given context. We evaluate our model on publicly available dataset and show the effectiveness of our model.

K. Wang and Y. Xia—Equal contribution.

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This work was supported by Projects 62276178 under the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key RD Program of China under Grant No. 2020AAA0108600 and the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.

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Wang, K., Xia, Y., Kong, F. (2023). Collective Entity Linking with Joint Subgraphs. In: Liu, F., Duan, N., Xu, Q., Hong, Y. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing. NLPCC 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 14303. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44696-2_14

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