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Entity resolution, the task of identifying and merging records that refer to the same real-world entity, is crucial in sectors like e-commerce, healthcare, and law enforcement. Large Language Models (LLMs) introduce an innovative approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Huahang Li , Longyu Feng , Shuangyin Li , Fei Hao , Chen Jason Zhang , Yuanfeng Song

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

Knowledge bases (KBs) store rich yet heterogeneous entities and facts. Entity resolution (ER) aims to identify entities in KBs which refer to the same real-world object. Recent studies have shown significant benefits of involving humans in…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Jiacheng Huang , Wei Hu , Zhifeng Bao , Yuzhong Qu

Entity resolution (record linkage, microclustering) systems are notoriously difficult to evaluate. Looking for a needle in a haystack, traditional evaluation methods use sophisticated, application-specific sampling schemes to find matching…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Olivier Binette , Youngsoo Baek , Siddharth Engineer , Christina Jones , Abel Dasylva , Jerome P. Reiter

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

Entity alignment (EA) aims to find the equivalent entities in different KGs, which is a crucial step in integrating multiple KGs. However, most existing EA methods have poor scalability and are unable to cope with large-scale datasets. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Xin Mao , Wenting Wang , Yuanbin Wu , Man Lan

Despite considerable progress in neural relevance ranking techniques, search engines still struggle to process complex queries effectively - both in terms of precision and recall. Sparse and dense Pseudo-Relevance Feedback (PRF) approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Iain Mackie , Shubham Chatterjee , Sean MacAvaney , Jeffrey Dalton

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 Resolution (ER) aims to identify whether two tuples refer to the same real-world entity and is well-known to be labor-intensive. It is a prerequisite to anomaly detection, as comparing the attribute values of two matched tuples from…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Congcong Ge , Pengfei Wang , Lu Chen , Xiaoze Liu , Baihua Zheng , Yunjun Gao

Entity resolution (ER) is a key data integration problem. Despite the efforts in 70+ years in all aspects of ER, there is still a high demand for democratizing ER - humans are heavily involved in labeling data, performing feature…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Muhammad Ebraheem , Saravanan Thirumuruganathan , Shafiq Joty , Mourad Ouzzani , Nan Tang

Entity Resolution, also called record linkage or deduplication, refers to the process of identifying and merging duplicate versions of the same entity into a unified representation. The standard practice is to use a Rule based or Machine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Janani Balaji , Faizan Javed , Mayank Kejriwal , Chris Min , Sam Sander , Ozgur Ozturk

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 Resolution (ER) is a fundamental data quality improvement task that identifies and links records referring to the same real-world entity. Traditional ER approaches often rely on pairwise comparisons, which can be costly in terms of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jiajie Fu , Haitong Tang , Arijit Khan , Sharad Mehrotra , Xiangyu Ke , Yunjun Gao

Entity matching (EM) is the most critical step for entity resolution (ER). While current deep learningbased methods achieve very impressive performance on standard EM benchmarks, their realworld application performance is much frustrating.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Tianshu Wang , Hongyu Lin , Cheng Fu , Xianpei Han , Le Sun , Feiyu Xiong , Hui Chen , Minlong Lu , Xiuwen Zhu

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

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-oriented retrieval assumes that relevant documents exhibit query-relevant entities, yet evaluations report conflicting results. We show this inconsistency stems not from model failure, but from evaluation. On TREC Robust04, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shubham Chatterjee

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

Entity resolution (ER; also known as record linkage or de-duplication) is the process of merging noisy databases, often in the absence of unique identifiers. A major advancement in ER methodology has been the application of Bayesian…

Recognizing entities in texts is a central need in many information-seeking scenarios, and indeed, Named Entity Recognition (NER) is arguably one of the most successful examples of a widely adopted NLP task and corresponding NLP technology.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Uri Katz , Matan Vetzler , Amir DN Cohen , Yoav Goldberg