Entity Linking with a Knowledge Base: Issues, Techniques, and Solutions

Wei Shen, Jianyong Wang, Jiawei Han
2015 IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering  
The large number of potential applications from bridging Web data with knowledge bases have led to an increase in the entity linking research. Entity linking is the task to link entity mentions in text with their corresponding entities in a knowledge base. Potential applications include information extraction, information retrieval, and knowledge base population. However, this task is challenging due to name variations and entity ambiguity. In this survey, we present a thorough overview and
more » ... ysis of the main approaches to entity linking, and discuss various applications, the evaluation of entity linking systems, and future directions.
doi:10.1109/tkde.2014.2327028 fatcat:h6neohummbgf3agcpirvzru4ry