Xiaoman Pan

Leveraging Entity Linking and Related Language Projection to Improve Name Transliteration

2016

Traditional name transliteration methods largely ignore source context information and inter-dependency among entities for entity disambiguation. We propose a novel approach to leverage state-of-the-art Entity Linking (EL) techniques to automatically correct name transliteration results, using …

Cross-lingual Name Tagging and Linking for 282 Languages

2017

The ambitious goal of this work is to develop a cross-lingual name tagging and linking framework for 282 languages that exist in Wikipedia. Given a document in any of these languages, our framework is able …