Summary of Where on Earth Do Users Say They Are?: Geo-entity Linking For Noisy Multilingual User Input, by Tessa Masis et al.
Where on Earth Do Users Say They Are?: Geo-Entity Linking for Noisy Multilingual User Input
by Tessa Masis, Brendan O’Connor
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Medium Difficulty Summary: This paper tackles the challenging task of geo-entity linking for noisy, multilingual social media data. Existing open-source tools are limited by being rule-based or large-language-model (LLM) based, which can be expensive and unreliable. The authors propose a novel method that represents real-world locations as averaged embeddings from labeled user-input location names, accompanied by an interpretable confidence score for selective predictions. Experimental results demonstrate improved geo-entity linking performance on a global and multilingual social media dataset. Additionally, the paper discusses the challenges and progress in evaluating at different geographic granularities. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Low Difficulty Summary: This research focuses on finding connections between location mentions on social media and real-world places. Right now, there aren’t many tools that can do this job well for languages other than English or handle noisy data. The authors created a new way to link locations by averaging information from labeled location names and providing a confidence score for each prediction. This method was tested on a large dataset of social media posts and showed better results compared to existing methods. The paper also talks about the difficulties in evaluating this task at different levels, like city or country. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Entity linking » Large language model
