Entity Extraction, Linking, Classification, and Tagging for Social Media: A Wikipedia-Based Approach
Summary: End-to-end industrial pipeline for extracting, Wikipedia-linking, classifying, and tagging social-media entities at Twitter-firehose scale. Its distinctive design interleaves tasks over a real-time Wikipedia knowledge base, exploiting context and social signals for improved accuracy. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Rohit Kumar (Walmart Labs)
- 2. Digvijay S. Lamba (Walmart Labs)
- 3. Nikesh Garera (Walmart Labs)
- 4. Mitul Tiwari (LinkedIn)
- 5. Xiaoyong Chai (Walmart Labs)
- 6. Sanjib Das (University of Wisconsin; Walmart Labs)
- 7. Sri Subramaniam (Walmart Labs)
- 8. Anand Rajaraman (Cambrian Ventures)
- 9. Venky Harinarayan (Cambrian Ventures)
- 10. AnHai Doan (University of Wisconsin; Walmart Labs)
BibTeX Citation
@article{kumar_vldb13,
title = {{Entity Extraction, Linking, Classification, and Tagging for Social Media: A Wikipedia-Based Approach}},
author = {Kumar, Rohit and Lamba, Digvijay S. and Garera, Nikesh and Tiwari, Mitul and Chai, Xiaoyong and Das, Sanjib and Subramaniam, Sri and Rajaraman, Anand and Harinarayan, Venky and Doan, AnHai},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '13},
volume = {6},
number = {11},
pages = {1126--1137},
doi = {10.14778/2536222.2536237},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2536222.2536237},
year = {2013}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 529 | Magellan: Toward Building Entity Matching Management Systems | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00017096361 |
| 6,068 | Why Big Data Industrial Systems Need Rules and What We Can Do About It | 2015 | SIGMOD | 5.9887211e-05 |
| 9,296 | InsightNotes: Summary-Based Annotation Management in Relational Databases | 2014 | SIGMOD | 5.2903329e-05 |
| 11,705 | TQEL: Framework for Query-Driven Linking of Top-K Entities in Social Media Blogs | 2021 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,048 | Automatic Entity Recognition and Typing in Massive Text Data | 2016 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,107 | Even Metadata is Getting Big: Annotation Summarization using InsightNotes | 2015 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65 | Freebase: A Collaboratively Created Graph Database For Structuring Human Knowledge | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.00038697603 |
| 717 | Automatic segmentation of text into structured records | 2001 | SIGMOD | 0.00014649121 |
| 1,848 | Building Structured Web Community Portals: A Top-Down, Compositional, and Incremental Approach | 2007 | VLDB | 9.6208418e-05 |
| 2,647 | Building, Maintaining, and Using Knowledge Bases: A Report from the Trenches | 2013 | SIGMOD | 8.2959636e-05 |
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