Browsing UMBC Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department by Author "Xu, Tan"

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    • A Context-Aware Approach to Entity Linking 

      Stoyanov, veselin; Mayfield, James; Xu, Tan; Oard, Doug; Lawrie, Dawn; Oates, Tim; Finin, Tim (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012-06-07)
      Entity linking refers to the task of assigning mentions in documents to their corresponding knowledge base entities. Entity linking is a central step in knowledge base population. Current entity linking systems do not ...

    • Cross-Document Coreference Resolution: A Key Technology for Learning by Reading 

      Mayfield, James; Alexander, David; Dorr, Bonnie; Eisner, Jason; Elsayed, Tamer; Finin, Tim; Fink, Clay; Freedman, Marjorie; Garera, Nikesh; McNamee, Paul; Mohammad, Saif; Oard, Douglas; Piatko, Christine; Sayeed, Asad; Syed, Zareen; Weischedel, Ralph; Xu, Tan; Yarowsky, David (AAAI, 2009-03-23)
      Automatic knowledge base population from text is an important technology for a broad range of approaches to learning by reading. Effective automated knowledge base population depends critically upon coreference resolution ...

    • HLTCOE Participation at TAC 2012: Entity Linking and Cold Start Knowledge Base Construction 

      McNamee, Paul; Stoyanov, Veselin; Mayfield, James; Oates, Tim; Finin, Tim; Xu, Tan; Oard, Douglas W.; Lawrie, Dawn (2012-11)
      Our team from the JHU HLTCOE participated in the Entity Linking and Cold Start Knowledge Base tasks in this year’s Text Analysis Conference Knowledge Base Population evaluation. We have previously participated in TAC-KBP ...

    • KELVIN: a tool for automated knowledge base construction 

      McNamee, Paul; Mayfield, James; Finin, Tim; Oates, Tim; Lawrie, Dawn; Xu, Tan; Oard, Doug (2013-06-03)
      We present KELVIN, an automated system for processing a large text corpus and distilling a knowledge base about persons, organizations, and locations. We have tested the KELVIN system on several corpora, including: (a) the ...