Efficient Entity Candidate Generation for Low-Resource Languages

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.15163v1
• Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 09:49:53 GMT
• Title: Efficient Entity Candidate Generation for Low-Resource Languages
• Authors: Alberto Garc\'ia-Dur\'an, Akhil Arora, Robert West
• Abstract summary: Candidate generation is a crucial module in entity linking. It plays a key role in multiple NLP tasks that have been proven to beneficially leverage knowledge bases. This paper constitutes an in-depth analysis of the candidate generation problem in the context of cross-lingual entity linking.
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• Abstract: Candidate generation is a crucial module in entity linking. It also plays a key role in multiple NLP tasks that have been proven to beneficially leverage knowledge bases. Nevertheless, it has often been overlooked in the monolingual English entity linking literature, as naive approaches obtain very good performance. Unfortunately, the existing approaches for English cannot be successfully transferred to poorly resourced languages. This paper constitutes an in-depth analysis of the candidate generation problem in the context of cross-lingual entity linking with a focus on low-resource languages. Among other contributions, we point out limitations in the evaluation conducted in previous works. We introduce a characterization of queries into types based on their difficulty, which improves the interpretability of the performance of different methods. We also propose a light-weight and simple solution based on the construction of indexes whose design is motivated by more complex transfer learning based neural approaches. A thorough empirical analysis on 9 real-world datasets under 2 evaluation settings shows that our simple solution outperforms the state-of-the-art approach in terms of both quality and efficiency for almost all datasets and query types.

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