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Entity disambiguation involves mapping mentions in texts to the corresponding entities in a given knowledge base. Most previous approaches were based on handcrafted features and failed to capture semantic information over multiple granularities. For accurately disambiguating entities, various information aspects of mentions and entities should be used in. This article proposes a hierarchical semantic similarity model to find important clues related to mentions and entities based on multiple sources of information, such as contexts of the mentions, entity descriptions and categories. This model can effectively measure the semantic matching between mentions and target entities. Global features are also added, including prior popularity and global coherence, to improve the performance. In order to verify the effect of hierarchical semantic similarity model combined with global features, named HSSMGF, experiments were carried out on five publicly available benchmark datasets. Results demonstrate the proposed method is very effective in the case that documents have more mentions.

Entity linking involves mapping ambiguous mentions in documents to the correct entities in a given knowledge base. Most existing methods failed to link when a mention appears multiple times in a document, since the conflict of its contexts in different locations may lead to difficult linking. Sentence representation, which has been studied based on deep learning approaches recently, can be used to resolve the above issue. In this paper, an effective entity linking model is proposed to capture the semantic meaning of the sentences and reduce the noise introduced by different contexts of the same mention in a document. This model first uses the symmetry of the Siamese network to learn the sentence similarity. Then, the attention mechanism is added to improve the interaction between input sentences. To show the effectiveness of our sentence representation model combined with attention mechanism, named ELSR, extensive experiments are conducted on two public datasets. Results illustrate that our model outperforms the baselines and achieves the superior performance.