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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

Pure machine-based solutions usually struggle in the challenging classification tasks such as entity resolution (ER). To alleviate this problem, a recent trend is to involve the human in the resolution process, most notably the…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Zhaoqiang Chen , Qun Chen , Boyi Hou , Murtadha Ahmed , Zhanhuai Li

Entity resolution (ER) is the problem of identifying and merging records that refer to the same real-world entity. In many scenarios, raw records are stored under heterogeneous environment. Specifically, the schemas of records may differ…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Yiming Lin , Hongzhi Wang , Jianzhong Li , Hong Gao

Entity Resolution (ER) is the task of finding entity profiles that correspond to the same real-world entity. Progressive ER aims to efficiently resolve large datasets when limited time and/or computational resources are available. In…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Giovanni Simonini , George Papadakis , Themis Palpanas , Sonia Bergamaschi

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 2016-02-09 Zeinab Bahmani , Leopoldo Bertossi , Nikolaos Vasiloglou

Accurate and efficient entity resolution is an open challenge of particular relevance to intelligence organisations that collect large datasets from disparate sources with differing levels of quality and standard. Starting from a…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Yuhang Zhang , Kee Siong Ng , Michael Walker , Pauline Chou , Tania Churchill , Peter Christen

Since Chen's Entity-Relationship (ER) model, conceptual modeling has been playing a fundamental role in relational data design. In this paper we consider an extended ER (EER) model enriched with cardinality constraints, disjointness…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Andrea Cali , Davide Martinenghi

Entity Recognition (ER) within a text is a fundamental exercise in Natural Language Processing, enabling further depending tasks such as Knowledge Extraction, Text Summarisation, or Keyphrase Extraction. An entity consists of single words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Andreas Waldis , Luca Mazzola

A plethora of approaches have been proposed for joint entity-relation (ER) extraction. Most of these methods largely depend on a large amount of manually annotated training data. However, manual data annotation is time consuming, labor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Trung Hoang Le , Huiping Cao , Tran Cao Son

Entity Resolution (ER) is a constitutional part for integrating different knowledge graphs in order to identify entities referring to the same real-world object. A promising approach is the use of graph embeddings for ER in order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Daniel Obraczka , Jonathan Schuchart , Erhard Rahm

Accurate and efficient entity resolution (ER) is a significant challenge in many data mining and analysis projects requiring integrating and processing massive data collections. It is becoming increasingly important in real-world…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Samudra Herath , Matthew Roughan , Gary Glonek

This paper deals with the issue of conceptual models role in capturing semantics and aligning them to serve the remaining development phases of systems design. Specifically, the entity-relationship (ER) model is selected as an example of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Sabah Al-Fedaghi

Entity-Relationship (E-R) Search is a complex case of Entity Search where the goal is to search for multiple unknown entities and relationships connecting them. We assume that a E-R query can be decomposed as a sequence of sub-queries each…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Pedro Saleiro , Natasa Milic-Frayling , Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues , Carlos Soares

Large language models (LLMs) excel in question-answering (QA) tasks, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances their precision by incorporating external evidence from diverse sources like web pages, databases, and knowledge graphs.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yikuan Xia , Jiazun Chen , Yirui Zhan , Suifeng Zhao , Weipeng Jiang , Chaorui Zhang , Wei Han , Bo Bai , Jun Gao

Entity resolution (ER), comprising record linkage and de-duplication, is the process of merging noisy databases in the absence of unique identifiers to remove duplicate entities. One major challenge of analysis with linked data is…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-10 Andee Kaplan , Brenda Betancourt , Rebecca C. Steorts

In database development, a conceptual model is created, in the form of an Entity-relationship(ER) model, and transformed to a relational database schema (RDS) to create the database. However, some important information represented on the ER…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Dhammika Pieris , M. C Wijegunesekera , N. G. J Dias

Entity Resolution (ER) aims to identify different descriptions in various Knowledge Bases (KBs) that refer to the same entity. ER is challenged by the Variety, Volume and Veracity of entity descriptions published in the Web of Data. To…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Vasilis Efthymiou , George Papadakis , Kostas Stefanidis , Vassilis Christophides

We propose unifying techniques from probabilistic databases and relational embedding models with the goal of performing complex queries on incomplete and uncertain data. We formalize a probabilistic database model with respect to which all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Tal Friedman , Guy Van den Broeck

Entity resolution (ER) aims at matching records that refer to the same real-world entity. Although widely studied for the last 50 years, ER still represents a challenging data management problem, and several recent works have started to…

Entity matching (EM) is a critical step in entity resolution (ER). Recently, entity matching based on large language models (LLMs) has shown great promise. However, current LLM-based entity matching approaches typically follow a binary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Tianshu Wang , Xiaoyang Chen , Hongyu Lin , Xuanang Chen , Xianpei Han , Hao Wang , Zhenyu Zeng , Le Sun