The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
SemTag and seeker: bootstrapping the semantic web via automated semantic annotation
WWW '03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web
HLT '91 Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language
Unsupervised personal name disambiguation
CONLL '03 Proceedings of the seventh conference on Natural language learning at HLT-NAACL 2003 - Volume 4
Efficiently linking text documents with relevant structured information
VLDB '06 Proceedings of the 32nd international conference on Very large data bases
Collective entity resolution in relational data
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
Wikify!: linking documents to encyclopedic knowledge
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management
Learning to link with wikipedia
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Collective annotation of Wikipedia entities in web text
Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
An Approach to Web-Scale Named-Entity Disambiguation
MLDM '09 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition
Named entity disambiguation by leveraging wikipedia semantic knowledge
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Collective entity linking in web text: a graph-based method
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Robust disambiguation of named entities in text
EMNLP '11 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
What next?: a half-dozen data management research goals for big data and the cloud
PODS '12 Proceedings of the 31st symposium on Principles of Database Systems
No noun phrase left behind: detecting and typing unlinkable entities
EMNLP-CoNLL '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
Entity Disambiguation with Freebase
WI-IAT '12 Proceedings of the The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
Mining entity attribute synonyms via compact clustering
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
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In many entity extraction applications, the entities to be recognized are constrained to be from a list of "target entities". In many cases, these target entities are (i) ad-hoc, i.e., do not exist in a knowledge base and (ii) homogeneous (e.g., all the entities are IT companies). We study the following novel disambiguation problem in this unique setting: given the candidate mentions of all the target entities, determine which ones are true mentions of a target entity. Prior techniques only consider target entities present in a knowledge base and/or having a rich set of attributes. In this paper, we develop novel techniques that require no knowledge about the entities except their names. Our main insight is to leverage the homogeneity constraint and disambiguate the candidate mentions collectively across all documents. We propose a graph-based model, called MentionRank, for that purpose. Furthermore, if additional knowledge is available for some or all of the entities, our model can leverage it to further improve quality. Our experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our model. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work on targeted entity disambiguation for ad-hoc entities.