We present a new method for detecting and disambiguating named entities in open domain text. A disambiguation SVM kernel is trained to exploit the high coverage and rich structure of the knowledge encoded in an online encyclopedia. The resulting model significantly outperforms a less informed baseline.

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In Proceesings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-06), pp. 9-16, Trento, Italy 2006.

@inproceedings{bunescu:eacl06, title={Using Encyclopedic Knowledge for Named Entity Disambiguation}, author={Razvan Bunescu and Marius Pasca}, booktitle={Proceesings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-06)}, address={Trento, Italy}, pages={9-16}, url="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab?bunescu:eacl06", year={2006} }