Problem Statement

Let's get acquainted with the task of building an entity linking system.

Introduction

Named entity linking (NEL) is the process of detecting and linking entity mentions in a given text to corresponding entities in a target knowledge base.

There are two parts to entity linking:

  1. Named-entity recognition

    Named-entity recognition (NER) detects and classifies potential named entities in the text into predefined categories such as a person, organization, location, medical code, time expression, etc. (multi-class prediction).

  2. Disambiguation

    Next, disambiguation disambiguates each detected entity by linking it to its ...

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