Title
A hybrid neural model for type classification of entity mentions
Abstract
The semantic class (i.e., type) of an entity plays a vital role in many natural language processing tasks, such as question answering. However, most of existing type classification systems extensively rely on hand-crafted features. This paper introduces a hybrid neural model which classifies entity mentions to a wide-coverage set of 22 types derived from DBpedia. It consists of two parts. The mention model uses recurrent neural networks to recursively obtain the vector representation of an entity mention from the words it contains. The context model, on the other hand, employs multilayer perceptrons to obtain the hidden representation for contextual information of a mention. Representations obtained by the two parts are used together to predict the type distribution. Using automatically generated data, these two parts are jointly learned. Experimental studies illustrate that the proposed approach outperforms baseline methods. Moreover, when type information provided by our method is used in a question answering system, we observe a 14.7% relative improvement for the top-1 accuracy of answers.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
IJCAI
Contextual information,Question answering,Computer science,Recurrent neural network,Context model,Artificial intelligence,Perceptron,Recursion
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
7
0.45
References 
Authors
26
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Li Dong158231.86
Furu Wei21956107.57
Hong Sun3243.97
Ming Zhou44262251.74
Ke Xu5143399.79