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Jan Botha

2 accepted papers

2021

MOLEMAN: Mention-Only Linking of Entities with a Mention Annotation Network

ACL 2021short

We present an instance-based nearest neighbor approach to entity linking. In contrast to most prior entity retrieval systems which represent each entity with a single vector, we build a contextualized mention-encoder that learns to place similar mentions of the same entity closer in vector space tha…

2021

XTREME-R: Towards More Challenging and Nuanced Multilingual Evaluation

EMNLP 2021main

Machine learning has brought striking advances in multilingual natural language processing capabilities over the past year. For example, the latest techniques have improved the state-of-the-art performance on the XTREME multilingual benchmark by more than 13 points. While a sizeable gap to human-lev…