Linking Entities to a Knowledge Base with Query Expansion

• Main Authors: GOTTIPATI, Swapna, JIANG, Jing
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Contextual information; Knowledge base; Language model; Named entities; Query expansion; Query language model; World knowledge; Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1377; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2376/viewcontent/D11_1074.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper we present a novel approach to entity linking based on a statistical language model-based information retrieval with query expansion. We use both local contexts and global world knowledge to expand query language models. We place a strong emphasis on named entities in the local context...