| Challenge: | Entity Disambiguation (ED) is the task of linking an ambiguous entity mention to a corresponding entry in a knowledge base. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that integrates structured information from the knowledge base with unstructured information from text-based representations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on a graph of hyperlinks between Wikipedia articles and a state-of-the-art neural ED model. |
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