REL 2.0

This project focused on improving the REL software package for entity linking and entity disambiguation developed by the Data Science group from the Radboud University in Nijmegen. The eScience Center examined general software quality and efficiency. The suggested changes were implemented in the system. Next, the Center proposed replacing the current language processing model by a more recent (2022) large language model (BERT, replacing Flair). Additionally, the Center proposed a locality-sensitive hashing method for optimizing coreference search. The project finished before the last two proposed enhancements could be incorporated in the software but they are still available as Github pull requests (#151 and #153). The REL software on Github has not been updated after 14 November 2023 and seems dormant.