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Entity Linking (EL), the task of mapping textual entity mentions to their corresponding entries in knowledge bases, constitutes a fundamental component of natural language understanding. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jiajun Hou , Chenyu Zhang , Rui Meng

Entity linking (or Normalization) is an essential task in text mining that maps the entity mentions in the medical text to standard entities in a given Knowledge Base (KB). This task is of great importance in the medical domain. It can also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Ishani Mondal , Sukannya Purkayastha , Sudeshna Sarkar , Pawan Goyal , Jitesh Pillai , Amitava Bhattacharyya , Mahanandeeshwar Gattu

Data Linkage is an important step that can provide valuable insights for evidence-based decision making, especially for crucial events. Performing sensible queries across heterogeneous databases containing millions of records is a complex…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Mohammed Gollapalli

Despite advances in large language model (LLM)-based natural language interfaces for databases, scaling to enterprise-level data catalogs remains an under-explored challenge. Prior works addressing this challenge rely on domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Jeffrey Eben , Aitzaz Ahmad , Stephen Lau

In many applications, researchers seek to identify overlapping entities across multiple data files. Record linkage algorithms facilitate this task, in the absence of unique identifiers. As these algorithms rely on semi-identifying…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-24 Gauri Kamat , Roee Gutman

In record linkage (RL), or exact file matching, the goal is to identify the links between entities with information on two or more files. RL is an important activity in areas including counting the population, enhancing survey frames and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-12-21 Michael D. Larsen

End-to-end relation extraction aims to identify named entities and extract relations between them. Most recent work models these two subtasks jointly, either by casting them in one structured prediction framework, or performing multi-task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Zexuan Zhong , Danqi Chen

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

Entity resolution (ER) is the process of identifying records that refer to the same entities within one or across multiple databases. Numerous techniques have been developed to tackle ER challenges over the years, with recent emphasis…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-14 George Papadakis , Nishadi Kirielle , Peter Christen , Themis Palpanas

Synthesizing relational data has started to receive more attention from researchers, practitioners, and industry. The task is more difficult than synthesizing a single table due to the added complexity of relationships between tables. For…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Valter Hudovernik , Martin Jurkovič , Erik Štrumbelj

Existing work on Entity Linking mostly assumes that the reference knowledge base is complete, and therefore all mentions can be linked. In practice this is hardly ever the case, as knowledge bases are incomplete and because novel concepts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Nora Kassner , Fabio Petroni , Mikhail Plekhanov , Sebastian Riedel , Nicola Cancedda

Link discovery is an active field of research to support data integration in the Web of Data. Due to the huge size and number of available data sources, efficient and effective link discovery is a very challenging task. Common pairwise link…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Markus Nentwig , Anika Groß , Maximilian Möller , Erhard Rahm

The goal of entity matching is to find the corresponding records representing the same real-world entity from different data sources. At present, in the mainstream methods, rule-based entity matching methods need tremendous domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Youfang Han , Chunping Li

Schema linking is a critical bottleneck in applying existing Text-to-SQL models to real-world, large-scale, multi-database environments. Through error analysis, we identify two major challenges in schema linking: (1) Database Retrieval:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yihan Wang , Peiyu Liu , Xin Yang

With today's public data sets containing billions of data items, more and more companies are looking to integrate external data with their traditional enterprise data to improve business intelligence analysis. These distributed data sources…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-05-16 Ahmad Assaf , Eldad Louw , Aline Senart , Corentin Follenfant , Raphaël Troncy , David Trastour

Entity Linking (EL) is an essential task for semantic text understanding and information extraction. Popular methods separately address the Mention Detection (MD) and Entity Disambiguation (ED) stages of EL, without leveraging their mutual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Nikolaos Kolitsas , Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Thomas Hofmann

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

Name Entity Disambiguation is the Natural Language Processing task of identifying textual records corresponding to the same Named Entity, i.e. real-world entities represented as a list of attributes (names, places, organisations, etc.). In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Alessandro Basile , Riccardo Crupi , Michele Grasso , Alessandro Mercanti , Daniele Regoli , Simone Scarsi , Shuyi Yang , Andrea Cosentini

Entity linking (EL) is the task of automatically identifying entity mentions in text and resolving them to a corresponding entity in a reference knowledge base like Wikipedia. Throughout the past decade, a plethora of EL systems and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Renato Stoffalette João , Pavlos Fafalios , Stefan Dietze

Record linkage, the process of matching records that refer to the same entity across datasets, is essential to empirical social science but remains methodologically underdeveloped. Researchers treat it as a preprocessing step, applying ad…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Noah Dasanaike