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Entity linking (EL) is the process of linking entity mentions appearing in web text with their corresponding entities in a knowledge base. EL plays an important role in the fields of knowledge engineering and data mining, underlying a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Wei Shen , Yuhan Li , Yinan Liu , Jiawei Han , Jianyong Wang , Xiaojie Yuan

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, the problem of identifying the underlying entity of references found in data, has been researched for many decades in many communities. A common theme in this research has been the importance of incorporating relational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Jay Pujara , Lise Getoor

Entity resolution has been an essential and well-studied task in data cleaning research for decades. Existing work has discussed the feasibility of utilizing pre-trained language models to perform entity resolution and achieved promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Liri Fang , Lan Li , Yiren Liu , Vetle I. Torvik , Bertram Ludäscher

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

Entity resolution is central to data integration and data cleaning. Algorithmic approaches have been improving in quality, but remain far from perfect. Crowdsourcing platforms offer a more accurate but expensive (and slow) way to bring…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Jiannan Wang , Tim Kraska , Michael J. Franklin , Jianhua Feng

Entity Recognition (ER) within a text is a fundamental exercise in Natural Language Processing, enabling further depending tasks such as Knowledge Extraction, Text Summarisation, or Keyphrase Extraction. An entity consists of single words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Andreas Waldis , Luca Mazzola

Entity resolution is the process of identifying groups of records within or across data sets where each group represents a real-world entity. Novel techniques that consider temporal features to improve the quality of entity resolution have…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Yichen Hu , Qing Wang , Peter Christen

Rich entity representations are useful for a wide class of problems involving entities. Despite their importance, there is no standardized benchmark that evaluates the overall quality of entity representations. In this work, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Mingda Chen , Zewei Chu , Yang Chen , Karl Stratos , Kevin Gimpel

Entity alignment has always had significant uses within a multitude of diverse scientific fields. In particular, the concept of matching entities across networks has grown in significance in the world of social science as communicative…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-21 James Flamino , Christopher Abriola , Ben Zimmerman , Zhongheng Li , Joel Douglas

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 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

The entity relationship modelling using the original ER notation has been applauded providing a natural view of data in conceptual modelling of information systems. However, the current ER to relational model transformation algorithm is…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-06-25 Dhammika Pieris

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 Matching (EM), which aims to identify all entity pairs referring to the same real-world entity from relational tables, is one of the most important tasks in real-world data management systems. Due to the labeling process of EM being…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Xiaocan Zeng , Pengfei Wang , Yuren Mao , Lu Chen , Xiaoze Liu , Yunjun Gao

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…

Existing evaluations of entity linking systems often say little about how the system is going to perform for a particular application. There are two fundamental reasons for this. One is that many evaluations only use aggregate measures…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Hannah Bast , Matthias Hertel , Natalie Prange

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 (ER) is one of the fundamental problems in data integration, where machine learning (ML) based classifiers often provide the state-of-the-art results. Considerable human effort goes into feature engineering and training…

Entity linking is the task of aligning mentions to corresponding entities in a given knowledge base. Previous studies have highlighted the necessity for entity linking systems to capture the global coherence. However, there are two common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Zheng Fang , Yanan Cao , Dongjie Zhang , Qian Li , Zhenyu Zhang , Yanbing Liu