Suppose there are INLINEFORM0 mentions in documents on average, among these global models, NCEL not surprisingly has the lowest time complexity INLINEFORM1 since it only considers adjacent mentions, where INLINEFORM2 is the number of sub-GCN layers indicating the iterations until convergence. 
 Question: Do they only use adjacent entity mentions or use more than that in some cases (next to adjacent)?
NCEL considers only adjacent mentions.