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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), an important and common data cleaning problem, is about detecting data duplicate representations for the same external entities, and merging them into single representations. Relatively recently, declarative rules…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Zeinab Bahmani , Leopoldo Bertossi , Nikolaos Vasiloglou

Entity Resolution (ER) aims to identify different descriptions in various Knowledge Bases (KBs) that refer to the same entity. ER is challenged by the Variety, Volume and Veracity of entity descriptions published in the Web of Data. To…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Vasilis Efthymiou , George Papadakis , Kostas Stefanidis , Vassilis Christophides

Entity Resolution suffers from quadratic time complexity. To increase its time efficiency, three kinds of filtering techniques are typically used for restricting its search space: (i) blocking workflows, which group together entity profiles…

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

Data science tasks involving tabular data present complex challenges that require sophisticated problem-solving approaches. We propose AutoKaggle, a powerful and user-centric framework that assists data scientists in completing daily data…

Record linkage is an essential part of nearly all real-world systems that consume structured and unstructured data coming from different sources. Typically no common key is available for connecting records. Massive data cleaning and data…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Thomas Gschwind , Christoph Miksovic , Julian Minder , Katsiaryna Mirylenka , Paolo Scotton

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

Entity resolution (ER) refers to the problem of matching records in one or more relations that refer to the same real-world entity. While supervised machine learning (ML) approaches achieve the state-of-the-art results, they require a large…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Renzhi Wu , Sanya Chaba , Saurabh Sawlani , Xu Chu , Saravanan Thirumuruganathan

There have been several recent advancements in Machine Learning community on the Entity Matching (EM) problem. However, their lack of scalability has prevented them from being applied in practical settings on large real-life datasets.…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-03-15 Vibhor Rastogi , Nilesh Dalvi , Minos Garofalakis

Data mixing augmentation have proved to be effective in improving the generalization ability of deep neural networks. While early methods mix samples by hand-crafted policies (e.g., linear interpolation), recent methods utilize saliency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Zicheng Liu , Siyuan Li , Di Wu , Zihan Liu , Zhiyuan Chen , Lirong Wu , Stan Z. Li

Entity linking is an indispensable operation of populating knowledge repositories for information extraction. It studies on aligning a textual entity mention to its corresponding disambiguated entry in a knowledge repository. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-06 Miao Fan , Qiang Zhou , Thomas Fang Zheng

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

Entity matching is the task of deciding whether two entity descriptions refer to the same real-world entity. Entity matching is a central step in most data integration pipelines. Many state-of-the-art entity matching methods rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Ralph Peeters , Aaron Steiner , Christian Bizer

In the field of database deduplication, the goal is to find approximately matching records within a database. Blocking is a typical stage in this process that involves cheaply finding candidate pairs of records that are potential matches…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Andrew Borthwick , Stephen Ash , Bin Pang , Shehzad Qureshi , Timothy Jones

Entity matching (EM), the task of identifying whether two descriptions refer to the same entity, is essential in data management. Traditional methods have evolved from rule-based to AI-driven approaches, yet current techniques using large…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Silvery D. Fu , David Wang , Wen Zhang , Kathleen Ge

Entity matching is an important and difficult step for integrating web data. To reduce the typically high execution time for matching we investigate how we can perform entity matching in parallel on a distributed infrastructure. We propose…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-06-29 Toralf Kirsten , Lars Kolb , Michael Hartung , Anika Groß , Hanna Köpcke , Erhard Rahm

Entity matching (EM) is a fundamental task in data integration and analytics, essential for identifying records that refer to the same real-world entity across diverse sources. In practice, datasets often differ widely in structure, format,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Mohammad Hossein Moslemi , Amir Mousavi , Behshid Behkamal , Mostafa Milani

The entity resolution problem requires finding pairs across datasets that belong to different owners but refer to the same entity in the real world. To train and evaluate solutions (either rule-based or machine-learning-based) to the entity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Yixiang Yao , Weizhao Jin , Srivatsan Ravi

Entity Resolution concerns identifying co-referent entity pairs across datasets. A typical workflow comprises two steps. In the first step, a blocking method uses a one-many function called a blocking scheme to map entities to blocks. In…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Mayank Kejriwal , Daniel P. Miranker