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On-the-fly Table Generation
Many information needs revolve around entities, which would be better
answered by summarizing results in a tabular format, rather than presenting
them as a ranked list. Unlike previous work, which is limited to retrieving
existing tables, we aim to answer queries by automatically compiling a table in
response to a query. We introduce and address the task of on-the-fly table
generation: given a query, generate a relational table that contains relevant
entities (as rows) along with their key properties (as columns). This problem
is decomposed into three specific subtasks: (i) core column entity ranking,
(ii) schema determination, and (iii) value lookup. We employ a feature-based
approach for entity ranking and schema determination, combining deep semantic
features with task-specific signals. We further show that these two subtasks
are not independent of each other and can assist each other in an iterative
manner. For value lookup, we combine information from existing tables and a
knowledge base. Using two sets of entity-oriented queries, we evaluate our
approach both on the component level and on the end-to-end table generation
task.Comment: The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and
Development in Information Retrieva
Entity Synonym Discovery via Multipiece Bilateral Context Matching
Being able to automatically discover synonymous entities in an open-world
setting benefits various tasks such as entity disambiguation or knowledge graph
canonicalization. Existing works either only utilize entity features, or rely
on structured annotations from a single piece of context where the entity is
mentioned. To leverage diverse contexts where entities are mentioned, in this
paper, we generalize the distributional hypothesis to a multi-context setting
and propose a synonym discovery framework that detects entity synonyms from
free-text corpora with considerations on effectiveness and robustness. As one
of the key components in synonym discovery, we introduce a neural network model
SYNONYMNET to determine whether or not two given entities are synonym with each
other. Instead of using entities features, SYNONYMNET makes use of multiple
pieces of contexts in which the entity is mentioned, and compares the
context-level similarity via a bilateral matching schema. Experimental results
demonstrate that the proposed model is able to detect synonym sets that are not
observed during training on both generic and domain-specific datasets:
Wiki+Freebase, PubMed+UMLS, and MedBook+MKG, with up to 4.16% improvement in
terms of Area Under the Curve and 3.19% in terms of Mean Average Precision
compared to the best baseline method.Comment: In IJCAI 2020 as a long paper. Code and data are available at
https://github.com/czhang99/SynonymNe
EntiTables: Smart Assistance for Entity-Focused Tables
Tables are among the most powerful and practical tools for organizing and
working with data. Our motivation is to equip spreadsheet programs with smart
assistance capabilities. We concentrate on one particular family of tables,
namely, tables with an entity focus. We introduce and focus on two specific
tasks: populating rows with additional instances (entities) and populating
columns with new headings. We develop generative probabilistic models for both
tasks. For estimating the components of these models, we consider a knowledge
base as well as a large table corpus. Our experimental evaluation simulates the
various stages of the user entering content into an actual table. A detailed
analysis of the results shows that the models' components are complimentary and
that our methods outperform existing approaches from the literature.Comment: Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on
Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '17), 201
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