Named-entity recognition finds the spans of a text that name entities (companies, people, places, products) and their types. Entity linking maps each recognised span to one identifier in a knowledge base; for a trading firm, to a permanent identifier in the security master (Book 7, chapter 4) as of the document’s date.
| aliases as of the headline’s date | today’s aliases | |||||
| mention | correct | linked | precision | correct | linked | precision |
| full name | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 89.3 | 89.3 | 100.0 |
| short name | 98.2 | 100.0 | 98.2 | 86.8 | 88.6 | 98.0 |
| ticker | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 84.5 | 92.4 | 91.5 |
| all | 99.5 | 100.0 | 99.5 | 87.5 | 89.7 | 97.5 |
ml_text.linking.