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Entity resolution (record linkage or deduplication) is the process of identifying and linking duplicate records in databases. In this paper, we propose a Bayesian graphical approach for entity resolution that links records to latent…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-10 Neil G. Marchant , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Rebecca C. Steorts

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

This paper introduces a novel evaluation methodology for entity resolution algorithms. It is motivated by PatentsView.org, a U.S. Patents and Trademarks Office patent data exploration tool that disambiguates patent inventors using an entity…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Olivier Binette , Sokhna A York , Emma Hickerson , Youngsoo Baek , Sarvo Madhavan , Christina Jones

Accurate and efficient entity resolution (ER) has been a problem in data analysis and data mining projects for decades. In our work, we are interested in developing ER methods to handle big data. Good public datasets are restricted in this…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-08 Samudra Herath , Matthew Roughan , Gary Glonek

Clinical named entity recognition (NER) aims to retrieve important entities within clinical narratives. Recent works have demonstrated that large language models (LLMs) can achieve strong performance in this task. While previous works focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Reza Averly , Xia Ning

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 consider the task of document-level entity linking (EL), where it is important to make consistent decisions for entity mentions over the full document jointly. We aim to leverage explicit "connections" among mentions within the document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Klim Zaporojets , Johannes Deleu , Yiwei Jiang , Thomas Demeester , Chris Develder

Entity Resolution (ER) in voice assistants is a prime component during run time that resolves entities in users request to real world entities. ER involves two major functionalities 1. Relevance generation and 2. Ranking. In this paper we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Venkat Varada , Mina Ghashami , Jitesh Mehta , Haotian Jiang , Kurtis Voris

Entity Linking (EL) is the task of automatically identifying entity mentions in a piece of text and resolving them to a corresponding entity in a reference knowledge base like Wikipedia. There is a large number of EL tools available for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Renato Stoffalette João , Pavlos Fafalios , Stefan Dietze

Entity resolution (probabilistic record linkage, deduplication) is a key step in scientific analysis and data science pipelines involving multiple data sources. The objective of entity resolution is to link records without common unique…

Applications · Statistics 2026-01-22 Tymoteusz Strojny , Maciej Beręsewicz

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

Name matching is a key component of systems for entity resolution or record linkage. Alternative spellings of the same names are a com- mon occurrence in many applications. We use the largest collection of genealogy person records in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-05-09 Jeffrey Sukharev , Leonid Zhukov , Alexandrin Popescul

Medical entity extraction (EE) is a standard procedure used as a first stage in medical texts processing. Usually Medical EE is a two-step process: named entity recognition (NER) and named entity normalization (NEN). We propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Alexander Nesterov , Dmitry Umerenkov

Entity summarization aims at creating brief but informative descriptions of entities from knowledge graphs. While previous work mostly focused on traditional techniques such as clustering algorithms and graph models, we ask how to apply…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Dongjun Wei , Yaxin Liu , Fuqing Zhu , Liangjun Zang , Wei Zhou , Jizhong Han , Songlin Hu

Most of the Natural Language Processing systems are involved in entity-based processing for several tasks like Information Extraction, Question-Answering, Text-Summarization and so on. A new challenge comes when entities play roles…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Neelesh Kumar Shukla , Sanasam Ranbir Singh

The entity registry system (ERS) is a decentralized entity registry that can be used to replace the Web as a platform for publishing linked data when the latter is not available. In developing countries, where off-line is the default mode…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-04 Mihai Gramada

Many recent works on Entity Resolution (ER) leverage Deep Learning techniques involving language models to improve effectiveness. This is applied to both main steps of ER, i.e., blocking and matching. Several pre-trained embeddings have…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Alexandros Zeakis , George Papadakis , Dimitrios Skoutas , Manolis Koubarakis

Entity retrieval is the task of finding entities such as people or products in response to a query, based solely on the textual documents they are associated with. Recent semantic entity retrieval algorithms represent queries and experts in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Christophe Van Gysel , Maarten de Rijke , Evangelos Kanoulas

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 matching is a critical challenge in data integration and cleaning, central to tasks like fuzzy joins and deduplication. Traditional approaches have focused on overcoming fuzzy term representations through methods such as edit…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Zezhou Huang