{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/learning-text-representations-for-500k","title":"Learning Text Representations for 500K Classification Tasks on Named Entity Disambiguation","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2018-10-01","proceeding":"CONLL 2018 10","authors":["Ander Barrena","Aitor Soroa","Eneko Agirre"],"abstract":"Named Entity Disambiguation algorithms typically learn a single model for all target entities. In this paper we present a word expert model and train separate deep learning models for each target entity string, yielding 500K classification tasks. This gives us the opportunity to benchmark popular text representation alternatives on this massive dataset. In order to face scarce training data we propose a simple data-augmentation technique and transfer-learning. We show that bag-of-word-embeddings are better than LSTMs for tasks with scarce training data, while the situation is reversed when having larger amounts. Transferring a LSTM which is learned on all datasets is the most effective context representation option for the word experts in all frequency bands. The experiments show that our system trained on out-of-domain Wikipedia data surpass comparable NED systems which have been trained on in-domain training data.","url_abs":"https://aclanthology.org/K18-1017","url_pdf":"https://aclanthology.org/K18-1017.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"learning-text-representations-for-500k","repo_url":"https://github.com/anderbarrena/500kNED","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"all","task_name":"All"},{"task_slug":"data-augmentation","task_name":"Data Augmentation"},{"task_slug":"entity-disambiguation","task_name":"Entity Disambiguation"},{"task_slug":"entity-linking","task_name":"Entity Linking"},{"task_slug":"entity-resolution","task_name":"Entity Resolution"},{"task_slug":"classification","task_name":"General Classification"},{"task_slug":"transfer-learning","task_name":"Transfer Learning"},{"task_slug":"word-embeddings","task_name":"Word Embeddings"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"lstm","method_name":"LSTM"},{"method_slug":"sigmoid-activation","method_name":"Sigmoid Activation"},{"method_slug":"tanh-activation","method_name":"Tanh Activation"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}