Empirical Evaluation of Pretraining Strategies for Supervised Entity Linking

In this work, we present an entity linking model which combines a Transformer architecture with large scale pretraining from Wikipedia links. Our model achieves the state-of-the-art on two commonly used entity linking datasets: 96.7% on CoNLL and 94.9% on TAC-KBP. We present detailed analyses to understand what design choices are important for entity linking, including choices of negative entity candidates, Transformer architecture, and input perturbations. Lastly, we present promising results on more challenging settings such as end-to-end entity linking and entity linking without in-domain training data.

PDF Abstract AKBC 2020 PDF AKBC 2020 Abstract
No code implementations yet. Submit your code now

Results from the Paper


Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Entity Linking AIDA-CoNLL Févry et al. (2020b) Micro-F1 strong 76.7 # 13

Methods