This repo implements a bi-encoder model for entity linking. The bi-encoder separately embeds mention and entity pairs into a shared vector space. The encoders in the bi-encoder model are pretrained transformers. We evaluate three different base encoder models on the retrieval rate metric. The retrieval rate is the rate at which the correct entity for a mention is included when generating k candidates for each mention in the test set. The HuggingFace names of the three base encoder models are:

• bert-base-uncased
• roberta-base
• johngiorgi/declutr-base

The ML models in this repo are implemented using PyTorch and PyTorch-Lightning.

1. Install Miniconda
2. Run conda env create -f environment.yml from inside the extracted directory. This creates a Conda environment called enli
3. Run

   source activate enli
   

4. Install requirements.

   pip install -r requirements.txt

We use the Zeshel (zero-shot-entity-linking) dataset for training and evaluation. The Zeshel train/dev/test splits are completely non-overlapping and have the following numbers:

• Train: 49275 labeled mentions covering 31502 entities
• Val: 10000 labeled mentions covering 7513 entities
• Test: 10000 labeled mentions covering 7218 entities

The train, val, and test sets do not share any entities at all between them.

Download the training data from here.

Copy the downloaded file into the root folder of this repo and then run

tar -xvf zeshel.tar.bz2

This step will require at least 20gb of memory.

python -m src.transform_zeshel --input-dir="./zeshel"

To train on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you must first build and push the training and evaluation docker image to your google cloud project. To do this edit scripts/build-images.sh with your own info.

Next, you can edit scripts/train-gcp.sh with your own google cloud project and then run

./scripts/train-gcp.sh

to submit a training job.

Similarly, edit scripts/eval-gcp.sh with your google cloud project id and run

./scripts/eval-gcp.sh

to submit the eval job.

We find the using DeCLUTR embedding model (which is based on roberta) significantly outperforms both roberta-base and bert-base-uncased on the entity linking task. With DeCLUTR we achieved a retrieval-rate at k=64 of ~69%. Note that this score is measured on a test set of completely unseen entities.

The validation loss curves and retrieval rates for the three base model types are shown below.