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We introduce ReFinED, an efficient end-to-end entity linking model which uses fine-grained entity types and entity descriptions to perform linking. The model performs mention detection, fine-grained entity typing, and entity disambiguation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Tom Ayoola , Shubhi Tyagi , Joseph Fisher , Christos Christodoulopoulos , Andrea Pierleoni

Novel research in the field of Linked Data focuses on the problem of entity summarization. This field addresses the problem of ranking features according to their importance for the task of identifying a particular entity. Next to a more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Andreas Thalhammer , Ioan Toma , Antonio Roa-Valverde , Dieter Fensel

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

Fine-grained entity typing is a challenging problem since it usually involves a relatively large tag set and may require to understand the context of the entity mention. In this paper, we use entity linking to help with the fine-grained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Hongliang Dai , Donghong Du , Xin Li , Yangqiu Song

Accurate and efficient record linkage is an open challenge of particular relevance to Australian Government Agencies, who recognise that so-called wicked social problems are best tackled by forming partnerships founded on large-scale data…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Yuhang Zhang , Tania Churchill , Kee Siong Ng

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 linking aims to link ambiguous mentions to their corresponding entities in a knowledge base. One of the key challenges comes from insufficient labeled data for specific domains. Although dense retrievers have achieved excellent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Yulin Chen , Zhenran Xu , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang

Entity linking involves aligning textual mentions of named entities to their corresponding entries in a knowledge base. Entity linking systems often exploit relations between textual mentions in a document (e.g., coreference) to decide if…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Phong Le , Ivan Titov

Entity matching is a fundamental task in data cleaning and data integration. With the rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs), recent studies have explored zero-shot and few-shot prompting to improve entity matching accuracy.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Rohan Bopardikar , Jin Wang , Jia Zou

Entity Linking involves detecting and linking entity mentions in natural language texts to a knowledge graph. Traditional methods use a two-step process with separate models for entity recognition and disambiguation, which can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Daniel Vollmers , Hamada M. Zahera , Diego Moussallem , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Entity matching is the task of linking records from different sources that refer to the same real-world entity. Past work has primarily treated entity linking as a standard supervised learning problem. However, supervised entity matching…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Somin Wadhwa , Adit Krishnan , Runhui Wang , Byron C. Wallace , Chris Kong

Set similarity join is a fundamental and well-studied database operator. It is usually studied in the exact setting where the goal is to compute all pairs of sets that exceed a given similarity threshold (measured e.g. as Jaccard…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Tobias Christiani , Rasmus Pagh , Johan Sivertsen

Whether the goal is to estimate the number of people that live in a congressional district, to estimate the number of individuals that have died in an armed conflict, or to disambiguate individual authors using bibliographic data, all these…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-19 Olivier Binette , Rebecca C. Steorts

Despite the advantages of their low-resource settings, traditional sparse retrievers depend on exact matching approaches between high-dimensional bag-of-words (BoW) representations of both the queries and the collection. As a result,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Dahlia Shehata , Negar Arabzadeh , Charles L. A. Clarke

Entity resolution plays a significant role in enterprise systems where data integrity must be rigorously maintained. Traditional methods often struggle with handling noisy data or semantic understanding, while modern methods suffer from…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Mohammadreza Sharifi , Danial Ahmadzadeh

Entity linking is the task of mapping potentially ambiguous terms in text to their constituent entities in a knowledge base like Wikipedia. This is useful for organizing content, extracting structured data from textual documents, and in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Michael Conover , Matthew Hayes , Scott Blackburn , Pete Skomoroch , Sam Shah

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

Named entity linking is to map an ambiguous mention in documents to an entity in a knowledge base. The named entity linking is challenging, given the fact that there are multiple candidate entities for a mention in a document. It is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Wei Shi , Siyuan Zhang , Zhiwei Zhang , Hong Cheng , Jeffrey Xu Yu

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

In enterprise search, building high-quality datasets at scale remains a central challenge due to the difficulty of acquiring labeled data. To resolve this challenge, we propose an efficient approach to fine-tune small language models (SLMs)…