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Entity Coreference Resolution is the task of resolving all mentions in a document that refer to the same real world entity and is considered as one of the most difficult tasks in natural language understanding. It is of great importance for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Nikolaos Stylianou , Ioannis Vlahavas

Entity matching seeks to identify data records over one or multiple data sources that refer to the same real-world entity. Virtually every entity matching task on large datasets requires blocking, a step that reduces the number of record…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Wei Zhang , Hao Wei , Bunyamin Sisman , Xin Luna Dong , Christos Faloutsos , David Page

Entity matching is a critical challenge in data integration and cleaning, central to tasks like fuzzy joins and deduplication. Traditional approaches have focused on overcoming fuzzy term representations through methods such as edit…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Zezhou Huang

Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims to extract and classify entity mentions in the text into pre-defined types (e.g., organization or person name). Recently, many works have been proposed to shape the NER as a machine reading comprehension…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yibo Wang , Wenting Zhao , Yao Wan , Zhongfen Deng , Philip S. Yu

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

A significant shortcoming of current state-of-the-art (SOTA) named-entity recognition (NER) systems is their lack of generalization to unseen domains, which poses a major problem since obtaining labeled data for NER in a new domain is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Nguyen Van Hoang , Soeren Hougaard Mulvad , Dexter Neo Yuan Rong , Yang Yue

Current systems of fine-grained entity typing use distant supervision in conjunction with existing knowledge bases to assign categories (type labels) to entity mentions. However, the type labels so obtained from knowledge bases are often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Xiang Ren , Wenqi He , Meng Qu , Clare R. Voss , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

Entity alignment (EA) is the task of identifying the entities that refer to the same real-world object but are located in different knowledge graphs (KGs). For entities to be aligned, existing EA solutions treat them separately and generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Weixin Zeng , Xiang Zhao , Jiuyang Tang , Xuemin Lin , Paul Groth

While the state-of-the-art performance on entity resolution (ER) has been achieved by deep learning, its effectiveness depends on large quantities of accurately labeled training data. To alleviate the data labeling burden, Active Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Youcef Nafa , Qun Chen , Zhaoqiang Chen , Xingyu Lu , Haiyang He , Tianyi Duan , Zhanhuai Li

Existing models for cross-domain named entity recognition (NER) rely on numerous unlabeled corpus or labeled NER training data in target domains. However, collecting data for low-resource target domains is not only expensive but also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Zihan Liu , Genta Indra Winata , Pascale Fung

Entity alignment is to find identical entities in different knowledge graphs. Although embedding-based entity alignment has recently achieved remarkable progress, training data insufficiency remains a critical challenge. Conventional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Kexuan Xin , Zequn Sun , Wen Hua , Bing Liu , Wei Hu , Jianfeng Qu , Xiaofang Zhou

In this paper, we present ASPEN, an answer set programming (ASP) implementation of a recently proposed declarative framework for collective entity resolution (ER). While an ASP encoding had been previously suggested, several practical…

Entity alignment (EA) aims to merge two knowledge graphs (KGs) by identifying equivalent entity pairs. While existing methods heavily rely on human-generated labels, it is prohibitively expensive to incorporate cross-domain experts for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Shengyuan Chen , Qinggang Zhang , Junnan Dong , Wen Hua , Qing Li , Xiao Huang

Dense retrieval systems increasingly need to handle complex queries. In many realistic settings, users express intent through long instructions or task-specific descriptions, while target documents remain relatively simple and static. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Seiji Maekawa , Moin Aminnaseri , Pouya Pezeshkpour , Estevam Hruschka

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

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the task of identifying and classifying named entities in unstructured text. In the legal domain, named entities of interest may include the case parties, judges, names of courts, case numbers, references…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Stavroula Skylaki , Ali Oskooei , Omar Bari , Nadja Herger , Zac Kriegman

When combined with In-Context Learning, a technique that enables models to adapt to new tasks by incorporating task-specific examples or demonstrations directly within the input prompt, autoregressive language models have achieved good…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Enzo Shiraishi , Raphael Y. de Camargo , Henrique L. P. Silva , Ronaldo C. Prati

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.…

The dynamic ensemble selection of classifiers is an effective approach for processing label-imbalanced data classifications. However, such a technique is prone to overfitting, owing to the lack of regularization methods and the dependence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Chen Wang , Chengyuan Deng , Zhoulu Yu , Dafeng Hui , Xiaofeng Gong , Ruisen Luo

Entity coreference resolution is an important research problem with many applications, including information extraction and question answering. Coreference resolution for English has been studied extensively. However, there is relatively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Tuan Manh Lai , Heng Ji