Entity Typing Using Distributional Semantics and DBpediaMarieke van Erp and Piek Vossen

Conclusions

• Finegrained entity typing is necessary for semantic queries over text

• Search space for word2vec is large, topics help

• Combining Distributional Semantics with DBpedia can help overcome NIL and Dark Entities

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Dark entities: little or no information available in KB

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Dark entities: little or no information available in KB

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Distributional Semantics

• Similar concepts (denoted by words) occur in similar contexts

• Word2Vec (Mikolov et al., 2013) explores this notion in a popular implementation

SushiTeriyakiUdon

Okonomiyaki

SobaSashimi

KimonoYukataNemakiKFC

Steak

HamburgerMcDonald’s

JeansT-shirt

Skirt

Research Question:

• Can we predict the type of the concept ‘Sushi’ by modelling it in a distributional semantics space and comparing its vector to the vectors of concepts for which we do know the type?

SushiTeriyakiUdon

Okonomiyaki

SobaSashimi

KimonoYukataNemakiKFC

Steak

HamburgerMcDonald’s

JeansT-shirt

Skirt

Setup

• 7 Named Entity Linking Benchmark datasets (AIDA-YAGO, 2014 NEEL, 2015 NEEL, OKE2015, RSS500, WES2015, Wikinews)

• 3 Word2Vec models: GoogleNews, English Wikipedia, Reuters RCV1*

• Compare all entities within datasets to each other and return highest ranking type (as taken from DBpedia)

* AIDA-YAGO is part of Reuters RCV1

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Initial results

• Not so great?

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Initial results (some footnotes)

• Ranking approach favours fine-grained entity types

• The Word2Vec corpus matters! NEEL2014&2015 are derived from Tweets, typically low coverage when querying news

• Smaller datasets (Wikinews, WES2015, OKE2015) do better?

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Let’s zoom in on topics

• Initially, all entities within a benchmark dataset were compared to all other entities.

• What if we only compare entities from sports documents to other entities from sports documents?

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Conclusions and Future Work

• Difficult task, but topics help

• Ranking needs to be improved

• Multi-class classification (KFC: food & organisation, Arnold Schwarzenegger: Actor & Politician)

• What else can we discover beyond type?

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Thank you!

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This research was made possible by the CLARIAH-CORE project financed by NWO.

http://www.clariah.nl