Distant Supervision for Entity Linking

Understand

Entity linking is an indispensable operation of populating knowledge repositories for information extraction.

• It studies on aligning a textual entity mention to its corresponding disambiguated entry in a knowledge repository.
• In this paper, we propose a new paradigm named distantly supervised entity linking (DSEL), in the sense that the disambiguated entities that belong to a huge knowledge repository (Freebase) are automatically aligned to the corresponding descriptive webpages (Wiki pages).
• In this way, a large scale of weakly labeled data can be generated without manual annotation and fed to a classifier for linking more newly discovered entities.