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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

Matching person names across heterogeneous records is a core challenge in entity resolution, especially within linguistically and culturally complex environments. Variations in naming conventions, inconsistent transliteration across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Shivam Chourasia , Hitesh Kapoor , Nilesh Patil

Entity Matching (EM) is crucial for identifying equivalent data entities across different sources, a task that becomes increasingly challenging with the growth and heterogeneity of data. Blocking techniques, which reduce the computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Mohammad Hossein Moslemi , Harini Balamurugan , Mostafa Milani

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 information network is used to describe structural relationships between entities. Taking advantage of its extension and heterogeneity, entity information network is more and more widely applied to relationship modeling. Recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Liang Yin , Li-Chen Shi , Jun-Yan Zhao , Song-Yang Du , Wen-Bo Xie , Duan-Bing Chen

Entity Matching (EM) refers to the problem of determining whether two different data representations refer to the same real-world entity. It has been a long-standing interest of the data management community and many efforts have been paid…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Jin Wang , Yuliang Li , Wataru Hirota

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 linking and resolution is a fundamental database problem with applications in data integration, data cleansing, information retrieval, knowledge fusion, and knowledge-base population. It is the task of accurately identifying…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Jixue Liu , Selasi Kwashie , Jiuyong Li , Lin Liu , Michael Bewong

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

In this paper, we present ASPEN, an answer set programming (ASP) implementation of a recently proposed declarative framework for collective entity resolution (ER). While an ASP encoding had been previously suggested, several practical…

In many government applications we often find that information about entities, such as persons, are available in disparate data sources such as passports, driving licences, bank accounts, and income tax records. Similar scenarios are…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Pankaj Malhotra , Puneet Agarwal , Gautam Shroff

Entity matching (EM) is the problem of determining whether two records refer to same real-world entity, which is crucial in data integration, e.g., for product catalogs or address databases. A major drawback of many EM approaches is their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Zeyu Zhang , Paul Groth , Iacer Calixto , Sebastian Schelter

Entity resolution (ER) presents unique challenges for evaluation methodology. While crowdsourcing platforms acquire ground truth, sound approaches to sampling must drive labelling efforts. In ER, extreme class imbalance between matching and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Neil G. Marchant , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

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

Record linkage is an essential part of nearly all real-world systems that consume structured and unstructured data coming from different sources. Typically no common key is available for connecting records. Massive data cleaning and data…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Thomas Gschwind , Christoph Miksovic , Julian Minder , Katsiaryna Mirylenka , Paolo Scotton

The state-of-the-art performance on entity resolution (ER) has been achieved by deep learning. However, deep models are usually trained on large quantities of accurately labeled training data, and can not be easily tuned towards a target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Zhaoqiang Chen , Qun Chen , Youcef Nafa , Tianyi Duan , Wei Pan , Lijun Zhang , Zhanhuai Li

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 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

Dirty entity resolution (ER), which identifies records referring to the same real-world entity from a single, messy dataset, is a fundamental task in data management and mining. However, the dominant blocking-matching-clustering paradigm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hongtao Wang , Renchi Yang , Haoran Zheng , Xiangyu Ke

Probabilistic databases play a preeminent role in the processing and management of uncertain data. Recently, many database research efforts have integrated probabilistic models into databases to support tasks such as information extraction…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Christan Grant , Daisy Zhe Wang , Michael L. Wick