@inproceedings{pablogamallo‚2016entity, title = {Entity Linking with Distributional Semantics}, booktitle = {12th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Entity Linking (EL) consists in linking name mentions in a given text with their referring entities in external knowledge bases such as DBpedia/Wikipedia. In this paper‚ we propose an EL approach whose main contribution is to make use of a knowledge base built by means of distributional similarity. More precisely‚ Wikipedia is transformed into a manageable database structured with similarity relations between entities. Our EL method is focused on a speci c task‚ namely semantic annotation of documents by extracting those relevant terms that are linked to nodes in DBpedia/Wikipedia. The method is currently working for four languages. The Portuguese and English versions have been evaluated and compared against other EL systems‚ showing competitive range‚ close to the best systems.}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-41552-9_18}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41552-9_18}, author = {Pablo Gamallo‚ Marcos Garcia} }