Context-Based Entity Linking - University of Amsterdam at TAC 2012

This paper describes our approach to the 2012 Text Analysis Conference (TAC) Knowledge Base Population (KBP) entity linking track. For this task, we turn to a state-of-the-art system for entity linking in microblog posts. Compared to the little context microblog posts provide, the documents in the TAC KBP track provide context of greater length and of a less noisy nature. In this paper, we adapt the entity linking system for microblog posts to the KBP task by extending it with approaches that explicitly rely on the query's context. We show that incorporating novel features that leverage the context on the entity-level can lead to improved performance in the TAC KBP task.