A Context-Aware Approach to Entity Linking

Veselin Stoyanov, James Mayfield, Tan Xu, Douglas W. Oard, Dawn J. Lawrie, Tim Oates, Tim Finin

Abstract: Entity linking refers to the task of assigning mentions in documents to their corresponding knowledge base entities. Entity linking is a central step in knowledge base population. Current entity linking systems do not explicitly model the discourse context in which the communication occurs. Nevertheless, the notion of shared context is central to the linguistic theory of pragmatics and plays a crucial role in Grice's cooperative communication principle. Furthermore, modeling context facilitates joint resolution of entities, an important problem in entity linking yet to be addressed satisfactorily. This paper describes an approach to context-aware entity linking.