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Entity resolution is a widely studied problem with several proposals to match records across relations. Matching textual content is a widespread task in many applications, such as question answering and search. While recent methods achieve…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Naser Ahmadi , Hansjorg Sand , Paolo Papotti

Entity Resolution, also called record linkage or deduplication, refers to the process of identifying and merging duplicate versions of the same entity into a unified representation. The standard practice is to use a Rule based or Machine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Janani Balaji , Faizan Javed , Mayank Kejriwal , Chris Min , Sam Sander , Ozgur Ozturk

Web search queries can be ambiguous: is "source of the nile" meant to find information on the actual river or on a board game of that name? We tackle this problem by deriving entity-based query interpretations: given some query, the task is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Vaibhav Kasturia , Marcel Gohsen , Matthias Hagen

Entity linking is the task of aligning mentions to corresponding entities in a given knowledge base. Previous studies have highlighted the necessity for entity linking systems to capture the global coherence. However, there are two common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Zheng Fang , Yanan Cao , Dongjie Zhang , Qian Li , Zhenyu Zhang , Yanbing Liu

Crowdsourcing is becoming increasingly important in entity resolution tasks due to their inherent complexity such as clustering of images and natural language processing. Humans can provide more insightful information for these difficult…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Vijaya Krishna Yalavarthi , Xiangyu Ke , Arijit Khan

Entity resolution, which involves identifying and merging records that refer to the same real-world entity, is a crucial task in areas like Web data integration. This importance is underscored by the presence of numerous duplicated and…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Huahang Li , Shuangyin Li , Fei Hao , Chen Jason Zhang , Yuanfeng Song , Lei Chen

Entity resolution (ER) is about identifying and merging records in a database that represent the same real-world entity. Matching dependencies (MDs) have been introduced and investigated as declarative rules that specify ER policies. An ER…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Zeinab Bahmani , Leopoldo Bertossi

Table retrieval is essential for accessing information stored in structured tabular formats; however, it remains less explored than text retrieval. The content of the table primarily consists of phrases and words, which include a large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Da Li , Keping Bi , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

A long-standing challenge in coreference resolution has been the incorporation of entity-level information - features defined over clusters of mentions instead of mention pairs. We present a neural network based coreference system that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Kevin Clark , Christopher D. Manning

Entity resolution identifies and removes duplicate entities in large, noisy databases and has grown in both usage and new developments as a result of increased data availability. Nevertheless, entity resolution has tradeoffs regarding…

Applications · Statistics 2017-10-10 Beidi Chen , Anshumali Shrivastava , Rebecca C. Steorts

Entity Resolution (ER) is a critical data cleaning task for identifying records that refer to the same real-world entity. In the era of Big Data, traditional batch ER is often infeasible due to volume and velocity constraints, necessitating…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Dimitrios Karapiperis , George Papadakis , Vassilios Verykios

Our work addresses the challenges of understanding tables. Existing methods often struggle with the unpredictable nature of table content, leading to a reliance on preprocessing and keyword matching. They also face limitations due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Thi-Nhung Nguyen , Hoang Ngo , Dinh Phung , Thuy-Trang Vu , Dat Quoc Nguyen

Entity resolution (record linkage, microclustering) systems are notoriously difficult to evaluate. Looking for a needle in a haystack, traditional evaluation methods use sophisticated, application-specific sampling schemes to find matching…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Olivier Binette , Youngsoo Baek , Siddharth Engineer , Christina Jones , Abel Dasylva , Jerome P. Reiter

The same real-world entity (e.g., a movie, a restaurant, a person) may be described in various ways on different datasets. Entity Resolution (ER) aims to find such different descriptions of the same entity, this way improving data quality…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Konstantinos Nikoletos , Vasilis Efthymiou , George Papadakis , Kostas Stefanidis

Exploring relationships across data sources is a crucial optimization for entities recognition. Since databases can store big amount of information with synthetic and organic data, serving all quantity of objects correctly is an important…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Dmitry Moskalev

Context: Entity resolution (ER) plays a pivotal role in data management by determining whether multiple records correspond to the same real-world entity. Because of its critical importance across domains such as healthcare, finance, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Andrei Olar

Entity matching is an important and difficult step for integrating web data. To reduce the typically high execution time for matching we investigate how we can perform entity matching in parallel on a distributed infrastructure. We propose…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-06-29 Toralf Kirsten , Lars Kolb , Michael Hartung , Anika Groß , Hanna Köpcke , Erhard Rahm

Data deduplication is the task of detecting records in a database that correspond to the same real-world entity. Our goal is to develop a procedure that samples uniformly from the set of entities present in the database in the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Alireza Heidari , Shrinu Kushagra , Ihab F. Ilyas

Entity matching is the task of linking records from different sources that refer to the same real-world entity. Past work has primarily treated entity linking as a standard supervised learning problem. However, supervised entity matching…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Somin Wadhwa , Adit Krishnan , Runhui Wang , Byron C. Wallace , Chris Kong

Entity resolution (ER), an important and common data cleaning problem, is about detecting data duplicate representations for the same external entities, and merging them into single representations. Relatively recently, declarative rules…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Zeinab Bahmani , Leopoldo Bertossi , Nikolaos Vasiloglou