Few-shot entity linking of food names

Darius Feher, Faridz Ibrahim, Zhuyan Cheng, Viktor Schlegel, Tom Maidment, James Bagshaw, Riza Batista-Navarro

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Abstract

Entity linking (EL), the task of automatically matching mentions in text to concepts in a target knowledge base, remains under-explored when it comes to the food domain, despite its many potential applications, e.g., finding the nutritional value of ingredients in databases. In this paper, we describe the creation of new resources supporting the development of EL methods applied to the food domain: the E.Care Knowledge Base (E.Care KB) which contains 664 food concepts and the E.Care dataset, a corpus of 468 cooking recipes where ingredient names have been manually linked to corresponding concepts in the E.Care KB. We developed and evaluated different methods for EL, namely, deep learning-based approaches underpinned by Siamese networks trained under a few-shot learning setting, traditional machine learning-based approaches underpinned by support vector machines (SVMs) and unsupervised approaches based on string matching algorithms. Combining the strengths of each of these approaches, we built a hybrid model for food EL that balances the trade-offs between performance and inference speed. Specifically, our hybrid model obtains 89.40% accuracy and links mentions at an average speed of 0.24 seconds per mention, whereas our best deep learning-based model, SVM model and unsupervised model obtain accuracies of 86.99%, 87.19% and 87.43% at inference speeds of 0.007, 0.66 and 0.02 seconds per mention, respectively.
Original languageEnglish
Article number103463
JournalInformation Processing & Management
Volume60
Issue number5
Early online date26 Jul 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2023

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