Cheap and easy entity evaluation

Ben Hachey, Joel Nothman, Will Radford

Abstract: The AIDA-YAGO dataset is a popular target for whole-document entity recognition and disambiguation, despite lacking a shared evaluation tool. We review evaluation regimens in the literature while comparing the output of three approaches, and identify research opportunities. This utilises our open, accessible evaluation tool. We exemplify a new paradigm of distributed, shared evaluation, in which evaluation software and standardised, versioned system outputs are provided online.