Overview of TAC-KBP2016 Tri-lingual EDL and Its Impact on End-to-End KBP.

In this paper we give an overview of the Tri-lingual Entity Discovery and Linking (EDL) task at the Knowledge Base Population (KBP) track at TAC2016. We will summarize several new and effective research directions including cross-lingual knowledge transfer and exploiting language-specific resources. In this year we make the EDL task as part of end-to-end Tri-lingual cold-start knowledge base construction on a very large document collection (90,003 documents). So we will also measure and investigate the impact of EDL on cold-start slot filling.