2 papers
cs.CL2020
Design Challenges in Low-resource Cross-lingual Entity Linking
Xingyu Fu, Weijia Shi, Xiaodong Yu +2
Cross-lingual Entity Linking (XEL), the problem of grounding mentions of entities in a foreign language text into an English knowledge base such as Wikipedia, has seen a lot of res…
cs.CL2018
On the Strength of Character Language Models for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition
Xiaodong Yu, Stephen Mayhew, Mark Sammons +1
Character-level patterns have been widely used as features in English Named Entity Recognition (NER) systems. However, to date there has been no direct investigation of the inheren…