Identification and Resolution of Entity Mentions in Text

The book "Identification and Resolution of Entity Mentions in Text" by Cristina Nicolae offers a comprehensive analysis of entity recognition in texts, which is crucial for understanding content. It explains how entities represent the main concepts of discourse and why their identification is essential for various applications of natural language processing, such as machine translation, summarization, information retrieval, and question answering. The presented method for recognizing entities and their mentions in natural language occurs in two steps: first, all mentions in the text are identified, followed by the grouping of mentions that refer to the same entity. The innovations of the book include the use of semantic hierarchies from the WordNet database for classifying mentions, as well as a top-down, graph-based approach to clustering mentions. This book is aimed at students of natural language processing and anyone interested in gaining insights into automatic text understanding.