Mention Grounding Task

A mention grounding task is a reference grounding task that can map a mention to a canonical referencer with the same referent as the mention.

• AKA: Mention Resolution, Mention Linking, Mention Normalization.
• Context:
  • Input: An Mention (in an Text Item).
  • output: A mapping a Concept/Canonical Concept (with the same Referent).
  • It can be solved by a Mention Grounding System (that implements a Mention Grounding algorithm).
  • It can be, depending on the knowledge base, an Ontology-based Mention Grounding Task.
  • It can be:
    • a Concept Mention Grounding Task.
    • a Relation Mention Grounding Task.
• Example(s):
  • a Concept Mention Grounding Task.
    • a Word Mention to Word Sense Resolution Task.
    • an Entity Mention Resolution Task.
    • Connect the mention of “Michael Jackson” to the correct (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ page (of the correct/disambiguated person intended by the context of the mention). (a Wikipedia-based Mention Resolution Task).
  • a Relation Mention Grounding Task, such as a PPLRE Task.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Mention Detection Task.
  • a Record Canonicalization Task.
  • a Mention Coreference Resolution Task.
    • a Coreference Resolution Task.
• See: Mention Normalization Task, Duplicate Record Detection Task.

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