Entity Linking

In this paper we present the Multilingual All-Words Sense Disambiguation and Entity Link-ing task. Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) and Entity Linking (EL) are well-known prob-lems in the Natural Language Processing field and both address the lexical ambiguity of lan-guage. Their main difference lies in the kind of meaning inventories that are used: EL uses encyclopedic knowledge, while WSD uses lexicographic information. Our aim with this task is to analyze whether, and if so, how, us-ing a resource that integrates both kinds of in-ventories (i.e., BabelNet 2.5.1) might enable WSD and EL to be solved by means of similar (even, the same) methods. Moreover, we in-vestigate this task in a multilingual setting and for some specific domains.