Automatic Entity Recognition and Typing from Massive Text Corpora: A Phrase and Network Mining Approach.

In today's computerized and information-based society, we are soaked with vast amounts of text data, ranging from news articles, scientific publications, product reviews, to a wide range of textual information from social media. To unlock the value of these unstructured text data from various domains, it is of great importance to gain an understanding of entities and their relationships. In this tutorial, we introduce data-driven methods to recognize typed entities of interest in massive, domain-specific text corpora.

Incorporating World Knowledge to Document Clustering via Heterogeneous Information Networks.

One of the key obstacles in making learning protocols realistic in applications is the need to supervise them, a costly process that often requires hiring domain experts. We consider the framework to use the world knowledge as indirect supervision. World knowledge is general-purpose knowledge, which is not designed for any specific domain.

ClusType: Effective Entity Recognition and Typing by Relation Phrase-Based Clustering.

Entity recognition is an important but challenging research problem. In reality, many text collections are from specific, dynamic, or emerging domains, which poses significant new challenges for entity recognition with increase in name ambiguity and context sparsity, requiring entity detection without domain restriction. In this paper, we investigate entity recognition (ER) with distant-supervision and propose a novel relation phrase-based ER framework, called , that runs phrase mining to generate entity mention candidates and relation phrases, and enforces the principle that relation phrases should be clustered when propagating type information between their argument entities.