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Entity linking

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Infusing structured knowledge priors in neural models for sample-efficient symbolic reasoning

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The ability to reason, plan and solve highly abstract problems is a hallmark of human intelligence. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence, propelled by deep neural networks, have revolutionized disciplines like computer vision and natural language ...

EPFL2024

From scattered sources to comprehensive technology landscape : A recommendation-based retrieval approach

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Mapping the technology landscape is crucial for market actors to take informed investment decisions. However, given the large amount of data on the Web and its subsequent information overload, manually retrieving information is a seemingly ineffective and ...

ELSEVIER2023

Examining European Press Coverage of the Covid-19 No-Vax Movement: An NLP Framework

Daniel Gatica-Perez

This paper examines how the European press dealt with the no-vax reactions against the Covid-19 vaccine and the dis- and misinformation associated with this movement. Using a curated dataset of 1786 articles from 19 European newspapers on the anti-vaccine ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

Text as a Richer Source of Supervision in Semantic Segmentation Tasks

Devis Tuia, Lloyd Haydn Hughes, Javiera Francisca Castillo Navarro, Valérie Zermatten

This paper introduces TACOSS a text-image alignment approach that allows explainable land cover semantic segmentation by directly integrating semantic concepts encoded from texts. TACOSS combines convolutional neural networks for visual feature extraction ...

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc2023

impresso Text Reuse at Scale. An interface for the exploration of text reuse data in semantically enriched historical newspapers

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

Text Reuse reveals meaningful reiterations of text in large corpora. Humanities researchers use text reuse to study, e.g., the posterior reception of influential texts or to reveal evolving publication practices of historical media. This research is often ...

2023

Yes but.. Can ChatGPT Identify Entities in Historical Documents?

Emanuela Boros

Large language models (LLMs) have been leveraged for several years now, obtaining state-of-the-art performance in recognizing entities from modern documents. For the last few months, the conversational agent ChatGPT has "prompted" a lot of interest in the ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

Strong Heuristics for Named Entity Linking

Robert West, Akhil Arora, Andreas Oliver Spitz

Named entity linking (NEL) in news is a challenging endeavour due to the frequency of unseen and emerging entities, which necessitates the use of unsupervised or zero-shot methods. However, such methods tend to come with caveats, such as no integration of ...

ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL2022

Introducing the HIPE 2022 Shared Task: Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Multilingual Historical Documents

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

We present the HIPE-2022 shared task on named entity processing in multilingual historical documents. Following the success of the first CLEF-HIPE-2020 evaluation lab, this edition confronts systems with the challenges of dealing with more languages, learn ...

Springer International Publishing2022

HIPE-2022 Shared Task Named Entity Datasets

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

HIPE-2022 datasets used for the HIPE 2022 shared task on named entity recognition and classification (NERC) and entity linking (EL) in multilingual historical documents. HIPE-2022 datasets are based on six primary datasets assembled and prepared for the sh ...

2022

Graph Representation Learning in Computational Pathology

Guillaume Jaume

Advances in scanning systems have enabled the digitization of pathology slides into Whole-Slide Images (WSIs), opening up opportunities to develop Computational Pathology (CompPath) methods for computer-aided cancer diagnosis and prognosis. CompPath has be ...

EPFL2022

Unsupervised Visual Entity Abstraction towards 2D and 3D Compositional Models

Beril Besbinar

Object-centric learning has gained significant attention over the last years as it can serve as a powerful tool to analyze complex scenes as a composition of simpler entities. Well-established tasks in computer vision, such as object detection or instance ...

EPFL2022

A Two-Step Approach To Leverage Contextual Data: Speech Recognition In Air-Traffic Communications

Petr Motlicek, Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), as the assistance of speech communication between pilots and air-traffic controllers, can significantly reduce the complexity of the task and increase the reliability of transmitted information. ASR application can lead ...

IEEE2022

How Did Europe's Press Cover Covid-19 Vaccination News? A Five-Country Analysis

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Understanding how high-quality newspapers present and discuss major news plays a role towards tackling disinformation, as it contributes to the characterization of the full ecosystem in which information circulates. In this paper, we present an analysis of ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2022

Low-Rank Subspaces for Unsupervised Entity Linking

Robert West, Akhil Arora, Alberto Garcia Duran

Entity linking is an important problem with many applications. Most previous solutions were designed for settings where annotated training data is available, which is, however, not the case in numerous domains. We propose a light-weight and scalable entity ...

ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL2021

Discourse Phenomena in Machine Translation

Lesly Sadiht Miculicich Werlen

Machine Translation (MT) has made considerable progress in the past two decades, particularly after the introduction of neural network models (NMT). During this time, the research community has mostly focused on modeling and evaluating MT systems at the se ...

EPFL2021

Classifying Dyads for Militarized Conflict Analysis

Robert West

Understanding the origins of militarized conflict is a complex, yet important undertaking. Existing research seeks to build this understanding by considering bi-lateral relationships between entity pairs (dyadic causes) and multi-lateral relationships amon ...

ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL2021

Subword Mapping and Anchoring across Languages

Andrei Popescu-Belis, Georgios Vernikos

State-of-the-art multilingual systems rely on shared vocabularies that sufficiently cover all considered languages. To this end, a simple and frequently used approach makes use of subword vocabularies constructed jointly over several languages. We hypothes ...

Assoc Computational Linguistics-Acl2021

Lightweight Cross-Lingual Sentence Representation Learning

Martin Jaggi, Prakhar Gupta

Large-scale models for learning fixed-dimensional cross-lingual sentence representations like LASER (Artetxe and Schwenk, 2019b) lead to significant improvement in performance on downstream tasks. However, further increases and modifications based on such ...

ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL2021

PARSINLU: A Suite of Language Understanding Challenges for Persian

Rabeeh Karimi Mahabadi

Despite the progress made in recent years in addressing natural language understanding (NLU) challenges, the majority of this progress remains to be concentrated on resource-rich languages like English. This work focuses on Persian language, one of the wid ...

2021

Learning computationally efficient static word and sentence representations

Prakhar Gupta

Most of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms involve use of distributed vector representations of linguistic units (primarily words and sentences) also known as embeddings in one way or another. These embeddings come in two flavours namely, sta ...

EPFL2021