Leveraging Deep Neural Networks and Knowledge Graphs for Entity Disambiguation
This work addresses entity disambiguation for natural language processing applications, representing an incremental improvement with specific performance gains.
The paper tackles entity disambiguation by linking ambiguous mentions to a knowledge base, introducing a deep semantic relatedness model (DSRM) that uses deep neural networks and knowledge graphs to measure entity semantic relatedness, resulting in 19.4% and 24.5% reductions in errors on two datasets compared to a state-of-the-art method.
Entity Disambiguation aims to link mentions of ambiguous entities to a knowledge base (e.g., Wikipedia). Modeling topical coherence is crucial for this task based on the assumption that information from the same semantic context tends to belong to the same topic. This paper presents a novel deep semantic relatedness model (DSRM) based on deep neural networks (DNN) and semantic knowledge graphs (KGs) to measure entity semantic relatedness for topical coherence modeling. The DSRM is directly trained on large-scale KGs and it maps heterogeneous types of knowledge of an entity from KGs to numerical feature vectors in a latent space such that the distance between two semantically-related entities is minimized. Compared with the state-of-the-art relatedness approach proposed by (Milne and Witten, 2008a), the DSRM obtains 19.4% and 24.5% reductions in entity disambiguation errors on two publicly available datasets respectively.