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Entity resolution, a longstanding problem of data cleaning and integration, aims at identifying data records that represent the same real-world entity. Existing approaches treat entity resolution as a universal task, assuming the existence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Bar Genossar , Roee Shraga , Avigdor Gal

In the recently proposed Lace framework for collective entity resolution, logical rules and constraints are used to identify pairs of entity references (e.g. author or paper ids) that denote the same entity. This identification is global:…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Meghyn Bienvenu , Gianluca Cima , Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto , Yazmín Ibáñez-García

This article analyzes the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as support for the conceptual modeling of relational databases through the automatic generation of Entity-Relationship (ER) diagrams from natural language requirements. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Arthur F. Siqueira , Carlos D. S. Nogueira , Eduarda Farias , Claudio E. C. Campelo , Júlia Menezes

Entity disambiguation (ED), which links the mentions of ambiguous entities to their referent entities in a knowledge base, serves as a core component in entity linking (EL). Existing generative approaches demonstrate improved accuracy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Junxiong Wang , Ali Mousavi , Omar Attia , Ronak Pradeep , Saloni Potdar , Alexander M. Rush , Umar Farooq Minhas , Yunyao Li

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

Despite encoding enormous amount of rich and valuable data, existing data sources are mostly created independently, being a significant challenge to their integration. Mapping languages, e.g., RML and R2RML, facilitate declarative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Samaneh Jozashoori , Ahmad Sakor , Enrique Iglesias , Maria-Esther Vidal

ML Data Curation process typically consist of heterogeneous & federated source systems with varied schema structures; requiring curation process to standardize metadata from different schemas to an inter-operable schema. This manual process…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Kunal Sawarkar , Meenkakshi Kodati

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 Resolution constitutes a core data integration task that relies on Blocking in order to tame its quadratic time complexity. Schema-agnostic blocking achieves very high recall, requires no domain knowledge and applies to data of any…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Luca Gagliardelli , George Papadakis , Giovanni Simonini , Sonia Bergamaschi , Themis Palpanas

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

Whether the goal is to estimate the number of people that live in a congressional district, to estimate the number of individuals that have died in an armed conflict, or to disambiguate individual authors using bibliographic data, all these…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-19 Olivier Binette , Rebecca C. Steorts

This paper covers automated settlement of receivables in non-governmental organizations. We tackle the problem with entity matching techniques. We consider setup, where base algorithm is used for preliminary ranking of matches, then we…

Entity linking (EL) is the task of automatically identifying entity mentions in text and resolving them to a corresponding entity in a reference knowledge base like Wikipedia. Throughout the past decade, a plethora of EL systems and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Renato Stoffalette João , Pavlos Fafalios , Stefan Dietze

Entity resolution (ER) is the process of determining whether two representations refer to the same real-world entity and plays a crucial role in data curation and data cleaning. Recent studies have introduced the KAER framework, aiming to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Lan Li , Liri Fang , Yiren Liu , Vetle I. Torvik , Bertram Ludaescher

Consider two data providers, each maintaining records of different feature sets about common entities. They aim to learn a linear model over the whole set of features. This problem of federated learning over vertically partitioned data…

Entity detection and tracking (EDT) is the task of identifying textual mentions of real-world entities in documents, extending the named entity detection and coreference resolution task by considering mentions other than names (pronouns,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-07-07 Hal Daumé , Daniel Marcu

This paper is intended to provide an overview of how the evaluation of standards could be applied to entity resolution, or record linkage. Data quality is of critical importance for many AI applications, and the quality of data,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Julia Lane

Entity and relation extraction is a key task in information extraction, where the output can be used for downstream NLP tasks. Existing approaches for entity and relation extraction tasks mainly focus on the English corpora and ignore other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Zixiang Wang , Jian Yang , Tongliang Li , Jiaheng Liu , Ying Mo , Jiaqi Bai , Longtao He , Zhoujun Li

Entity Resolution (ER) is the problem of determining when two entities refer to the same underlying entity. The problem has been studied for over 50 years, and most recently, has taken on new importance in an era of large, heterogeneous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Mayank Kejriwal

Multi-entity question answering (MEQA) represents significant challenges for large language models (LLM) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, which frequently struggle to consolidate scattered information across diverse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Teng Lin , Yuyu Luo , Honglin Zhang , Jicheng Zhang , Chunlin Liu , Kaishun Wu , Nan Tang