Old is Gold: Linguistic Driven Approach for Entity and Relation Linking of Short Text (N19-1)
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Ahmad Sakor, Isaiah Onando Mulang’, Kuldeep Singh, Saeedeh Shekarpour, Maria Esther Vidal, Jens Lehmann, Sören Auer
| Challenge: | Short texts challenge NLP tasks because they lack context or are partially malformed. |
| Approach: | They propose a method which maps entities and relations within a short text to Wikipedia mentions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods for short text query inventories. |
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