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Matching dependencies (MDs) have been recently introduced as declarative rules for entity resolution (ER), i.e. for identifying and resolving duplicates in relational instance $D$. A set of MDs can be used as the basis for a possibly…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-12-30 Jaffer Gardezi , Leopoldo Bertossi

Entity alignment seeks to find entities in different knowledge graphs (KGs) that refer to the same real-world object. Recent advancement in KG embedding impels the advent of embedding-based entity alignment, which encodes entities in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Zequn Sun , Qingheng Zhang , Wei Hu , Chengming Wang , Muhao Chen , Farahnaz Akrami , Chengkai Li

Entity linking - connecting entity mentions in a natural language utterance to knowledge graph (KG) entities is a crucial step for question answering over KGs. It is often based on measuring the string similarity between the entity label…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Rostislav Nedelchev , Debanjan Chaudhuri , Jens Lehmann , Asja Fischer

Crowdsourcing is becoming increasingly important in entity resolution tasks due to their inherent complexity such as clustering of images and natural language processing. Humans can provide more insightful information for these difficult…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Vijaya Krishna Yalavarthi , Xiangyu Ke , Arijit Khan

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

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

A typical architecture for end-to-end entity linking systems consists of three steps: mention detection, candidate generation and entity disambiguation. In this study we investigate the following questions: (a) Can all those steps be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Samuel Broscheit

Recognizing similarities among entities is central to both human cognition and computational intelligence. Within this broader landscape, Entity Set Expansion is one prominent task aimed at taking an initial set of (tuples of) entities and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Giovanni Amendola , Pietro Cofone , Marco Manna , Aldo Ricioppo

Social networks initially had been places for people to contact each other, find friends or new acquaintances. As such they ever proved interesting for machine aided analysis. Recent developments, however, pivoted social networks to being…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Gergo Barta

This paper deals with the issue of conceptual models role in capturing semantics and aligning them to serve the remaining development phases of systems design. Specifically, the entity-relationship (ER) model is selected as an example of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Sabah Al-Fedaghi

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

With the proliferation of models for natural language processing tasks, it is even harder to understand the differences between models and their relative merits. Simply looking at differences between holistic metrics such as accuracy, BLEU,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Jinlan Fu , Pengfei Liu , Graham Neubig

Linking textual values in tabular data to their corresponding entities in a Knowledge Base is a core task across a variety of data integration and enrichment applications. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown State-of-The-Art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Carlo Bono , Federico Belotti , Matteo Palmonari

Record linkage is the process of identifying records that refer to the same entities from several databases. This process is challenging because commonly no unique entity identifiers are available. Linkage therefore has to rely on partially…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Peter Christen

Entity resolution (ER) remains a significant challenge in data management, especially when dealing with large datasets. This paper introduces MERAI (Massive Entity Resolution using AI), a robust and efficient pipeline designed to address…

Joint entity and relation extraction plays a pivotal role in various applications, notably in the construction of knowledge graphs. Despite recent progress, existing approaches often fall short in two key aspects: richness of representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Urchade Zaratiana , Nadi Tomeh , Yann Dauxais , Pierre Holat , Thierry Charnois

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

In this work, we explore the problem of correctly and efficiently answering complex SPJ queries issued directly on top of dirty data. We introduce QueryER, a framework that seamlessly integrates Entity Resolution into Query Processing.…

After decades of massive digitisation, an unprecedented amount of historical documents is available in digital format, along with their machine-readable texts. While this represents a major step forward with respect to preservation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Maud Ehrmann , Ahmed Hamdi , Elvys Linhares Pontes , Matteo Romanello , Antoine Doucet

The similarity between the question and indexed documents is a crucial factor in document retrieval for retrieval-augmented question answering. Although this is typically the only method for obtaining the relevant documents, it is not the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Hassan S. Shavarani , Anoop Sarkar