ReFinED: An Efficient Zero-shot-capable Approach to End-to-End Entity Linking
Tom Ayoola, Shubhi Tyagi, Joseph Fisher, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Andrea Pierleoni
Abstract
We introduce ReFinED, an efficient end-to-end entity linking model which uses fine-grained entity types and entity descriptions to perform linking. The model performs mention detection, fine-grained entity typing, and entity disambiguation for all mentions within a document in a single forward pass, making it more than 60 times faster than competitive existing approaches. ReFinED also surpasses state-of-the-art performance on standard entity linking datasets by an average of 3.7 F1. The model is capable of generalising to large-scale knowledge bases such as Wikidata (which has 15 times more entities than Wikipedia) and of zero-shot entity linking. The combination of speed, accuracy and scale makes ReFinED an effective and cost-efficient system for extracting entities from web-scale datasets, for which the model has been successfully deployed.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.naacl-industry.24
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Industry Track
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Hybrid: Seattle, Washington + Online
- Editors:
- Anastassia Loukina, Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Bonan Min
- Venue:
- NAACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 209–220
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-industry.24
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-industry.24
- Cite (ACL):
- Tom Ayoola, Shubhi Tyagi, Joseph Fisher, Christos Christodoulopoulos, and Andrea Pierleoni. 2022. ReFinED: An Efficient Zero-shot-capable Approach to End-to-End Entity Linking. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Industry Track, pages 209–220, Hybrid: Seattle, Washington + Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- ReFinED: An Efficient Zero-shot-capable Approach to End-to-End Entity Linking (Ayoola et al., NAACL 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2022.naacl-industry.24.pdf
- Code
- amazon-research/ReFinED + additional community code
- Data
- ACE 2004, AIDA CoNLL-YAGO, AQUAINT, CoNLL, IPM NEL, WebQuestionsSP