(everyone has to read this)
(mandatory if you choose this as your expertise topic)
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Moro, Andrea, Alessandro Raganato, and Roberto Navigli. “Entity linking meets word sense disambiguation: a unified approach.” Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2 (2014): 231-244. https://transacl.org/ojs/index.php/tacl/article/download/291/47
Ferragina, P. and Scaiella, U., 2010, October. Tagme: on-the-fly annotation of short text fragments (by wikipedia entities). In Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (pp. 1625-1628). ACM. http://www.di.unipi.it/%7Eferragin/cikm2010.pdf
Ratinov, Lev, Dan Roth, Doug Downey, and Mike Anderson. “Local and global algorithms for disambiguation to wikipedia.” In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies-Volume 1, pp. 1375-1384. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2011. http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/papers/ChengRo13.pdf
Edgar Meij, Krisztian Balog and Dann Odijk. 2014. Entity Linking and Retrieval Tutorial at WSDM2014, SIGIR2013, YSS2013 and WWW2013. http://ejmeij.github.io/entity-linking-and-retrieval-tutorial/
Roth, Dan, Heng Ji, Ming-Wei Chang, and Taylor Cassidy. “Wikification and Beyond: The Challenges of Entity and Concept Grounding.” In ACL (Tutorial Abstracts), p. 7. 2014. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bedb/08faf3336a9e931f3ed6a36fc4a86abb535c.pdf