Local and global algorithms for disambiguation to Wikipedia

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Disambiguating concepts and entities in a context sensitive way is a fundamental problem in natural language processing. In this work we analyze approaches that utilize this information to arrive at coherent sets of disambiguations for a given document (which we call approaches), and compare them to more traditional (local) approaches.

🔑 Key Findings

• The comprehensiveness of Wikipedia has made the online encyclopedia an increasingly popular target for disambiguation.
• Disambiguation to Wikipedia is similar to a traditional Word Sense Disambiguation task, but distinct in that the Wikipedia link structure provides additional information about which disambiguations are compatible.
• In this work we analyze approaches that utilize this information to arrive at coherent sets of disambiguations for a given document (which we call approaches), and compare them to more traditional (local) approaches.

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