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Data integration has been a long-standing challenge in data management with many applications. A key step in data integration is entity consolidation. It takes a collection of clusters of duplicate records as input and produces a single…

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

We propose yet another entity linking model (YELM) which links words to entities instead of spans. This overcomes any difficulties associated with the selection of good candidate mention spans and makes the joint training of mention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Haotian Chen , Andrej Zukov-Gregoric , Xi David Li , Sahil Wadhwa

Conceptual modelling using the entity relationship (ER) model has been widely used for database design for a long period of time. However, studies indicate that creating a satisfactory relational model representation from an ER model is…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-07-01 Dhammika Pieris

Entity disambiguation, or mapping a phrase to its canonical representation in a knowledge base, is a fundamental step in many natural language processing applications. Existing techniques based on global ranking models fail to capture the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Tiep Mai , Bichen Shi , Patrick K. Nicholson , Deepak Ajwani , Alessandra Sala

Entity alignment (EA) is the task of identifying the entities that refer to the same real-world object but are located in different knowledge graphs (KGs). For entities to be aligned, existing EA solutions treat them separately and generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Weixin Zeng , Xiang Zhao , Jiuyang Tang , Xuemin Lin , Paul Groth

Entity alignment is the task of finding entities in two knowledge bases (KBs) that represent the same real-world object. When facing KBs in different natural languages, conventional cross-lingual entity alignment methods rely on machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Zequn Sun , Wei Hu , Chengkai Li

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

Equivalent Representations (ERs) of code are textual representations that preserve the same semantics as the code itself, e.g., natural language comments and pseudocode. ERs play a critical role in software development and maintenance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Jia Li , Ge Li , Lecheng Wang , Hao Zhu , Zhi Jin

Metamorphic testing (MT) has proven to be a successful solution to automating testing and addressing the oracle problem. However, it entails manually deriving metamorphic relations (MRs) and converting them into an executable form; these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Seung Yeob Shin , Fabrizio Pastore , Domenico Bianculli , Alexandra Baicoianu

The goal of entity matching is to find the corresponding records representing the same real-world entity from different data sources. At present, in the mainstream methods, rule-based entity matching methods need tremendous domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Youfang Han , Chunping Li

Entity disambiguation (ED) is the task of linking mentions in text to corresponding entries in a knowledge base. Dual Encoders address this by embedding mentions and label candidates in a shared embedding space and applying a similarity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Susanna Rücker , Alan Akbik

This paper addresses the challenge of Database Entity Recognition (DB-ER) in Natural Language Queries (NLQ). We present several key contributions to advance this field: (1) a human-annotated benchmark for DB-ER task, derived from popular…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Zikun Fu , Chen Yang , Kourosh Davoudi , Ken Q. Pu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown transformative potential in medical applications, yet their performance is hindered by conventional data curation strategies that rely on coarse-grained partitioning by modality or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jianghang Lin , Haihua Yang , Deli Yu , Kai Wu , Kai Ye , Jinghao Lin , Zihan Wang , Yuhang Wu , Liujuan Cao

Clustering web documents has numerous applications, such as aggregating news articles into meaningful events, detecting trends and hot topics on the Web, preserving diversity in search results, etc. At the same time, the importance of named…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Matthias Galle , Jean-Michel Renders , Guillaume Jacquet

Product reviews contain a lot of useful information about product features and customer opinions. One important product feature is the complementary entity (products) that may potentially work together with the reviewed product. Knowing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Hu Xu , Sihong Xie , Lei Shu , Philip S. Yu

Entity tracking (ET), the ability to keep track of states, is a fundamental skill that underlies complex reasoning. An increasing amount of work investigates how transformer language models (LMs) solve entity binding $\textit{without}$…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zilu Tang , Qiao Zhao , Gabriel Franco , Derry Wijaya , Aaron Mueller , Sebastian Schuster , Najoung Kim

Entity Matching (EM), which aims to identify whether two entity records from two relational tables refer to the same real-world entity, is one of the fundamental problems in data management. Traditional EM assumes that two tables are…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Pengfei Wang , Xiaocan Zeng , Lu Chen , Fan Ye , Yuren Mao , Junhao Zhu , Yunjun Gao

Entity Coreference Resolution is the task of resolving all mentions in a document that refer to the same real world entity and is considered as one of the most difficult tasks in natural language understanding. It is of great importance for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Nikolaos Stylianou , Ioannis Vlahavas

In this paper, the authors propose TriBERTa, a supervised entity resolution system that utilizes a pre-trained large language model and a triplet loss function to learn representations for entity matching. The system consists of two steps:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Xiaowei Xu , Bi T. Foua , Xingqiao Wang , Vivek Gunasekaran , John R. Talburt