Cross-Document Coreference Resolution Using Latent Features
Abstract: Abstract. Over the last years, entity detection approaches which com-bine named entity recognition and entity linking have been used to detect mentions of RDF resources from a given reference knowledge base in un-structured data. In this paper, we address the problem of assigning a single URI to named entities which stand for the same real-object across documents but are not yet available in the reference knowledge base. This task is known as cross-document co-reference resolution and has been addressed by manifold approaches in the past. We present a pre-liminary study of a novel take on the task based on the use of latent fea-tures derived from matrix factorizations combined with parameter-free graph clustering. We study the influence of different parameters (window size, rank, hardening) on our approach by comparing the F-measures we achieve on the N3 benchmark. Our results suggest that using latent fea-tures leads to higher F-measures with an increase of up to 20.5 % on datasets of the N3 collection. 1