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First Steps in Czech Entity Linking

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In this paper, we present our approach for a simplified Entity Linking task in Czech, where entity mentions found in text are linked to a list of known entities. We evaluate both known and newly proposed methods for entity names similarity on a manually annotated newspaper corpus. We show that it is possible to achieve a very high accuracy in this task, which is required in many natural language processing tasks as well as in the commercial practice.

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  • Entity linking
  • Named entity
  • Named entity disambiguation
  • Czech

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Konkol, M. (2015). First Steps in Czech Entity Linking. In: Král, P., Matoušek, V. (eds) Text, Speech, and Dialogue. TSD 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9302. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24033-6_55

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