Using Encyclopedic Knowledge for Named Entity Disambiguation

Răzvan Bunescu, MARIUS A. PAŞCA · 2006

We present a new method for detecting and disambiguating named entities in open domain text. A disambiguation SVM kernel is trained to exploit the high coverage and rich structure of the knowledge encoded in an online encyclopedia. The resulting model significantly outperforms a less informed baseline.

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