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Entity resolution (ER) is an important data integration task with a wide spectrum of applications. The state-of-the-art solutions on ER rely on pre-trained language models (PLMs), which require fine-tuning on a lot of labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Meihao Fan , Xiaoyue Han , Ju Fan , Chengliang Chai , Nan Tang , Guoliang Li , Xiaoyong Du

Understanding searchers' queries is an essential component of semantic search systems. In many cases, search queries involve specific attributes of an entity in a knowledge base (KB), which can be further used to find query answers. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Arash Dargahi Nobari , Arian Askari , Faegheh Hasibi , Mahmood Neshati

This survey presents a comprehensive description of recent neural entity linking (EL) systems developed since 2015 as a result of the "deep learning revolution" in natural language processing. Its goal is to systemize design features of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Ozge Sevgili , Artem Shelmanov , Mikhail Arkhipov , Alexander Panchenko , Chris Biemann

When performing named entity recognition (NER), entity length is variable and dependent on a specific domain or dataset. Pre-trained language models (PLMs) are used to solve NER tasks and tend to be biased toward dataset patterns such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Minbyul Jeong , Jaewoo Kang

Our work addresses the challenges of understanding tables. Existing methods often struggle with the unpredictable nature of table content, leading to a reliance on preprocessing and keyword matching. They also face limitations due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Thi-Nhung Nguyen , Hoang Ngo , Dinh Phung , Thuy-Trang Vu , Dat Quoc Nguyen

Multi-entity question answering (MEQA) represents significant challenges for large language models (LLM) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, which frequently struggle to consolidate scattered information across diverse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Teng Lin , Yuyu Luo , Honglin Zhang , Jicheng Zhang , Chunlin Liu , Kaishun Wu , Nan Tang

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

How to identify those equivalent entities between knowledge graphs (KGs), which is called Entity Alignment (EA), is a long-standing challenge. So far, many methods have been proposed, with recent focus on leveraging Deep Learning to solve…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Nhat-Minh Dao , Thai V. Hoang , Zonghua Zhang

The Entity-Relationship (ER) model is widely used for creating ER schemas for modeling application domains in the field of Information Systems development. However, when an ER schema is transformed to a Relational Database Schema (RDS),…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Dhammika Pieris , M. C Wijegunesekera , N. G. J. Dias

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a challenging and widely studied task that involves detecting and typing entities in text. So far,NER still approaches entity typing as a task of classification into universal classes (e.g. date, person, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Tristan Luiggi , Laure Soulier , Vincent Guigue , Siwar Jendoubi , Aurélien Baelde

Entity alignment (EA) aims to identify entities referring to the same real-world object across different knowledge graphs (KGs). Recent approaches based on large language models (LLMs) typically obtain entity embeddings through knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Cunda Wang , Ziying Ma , Po Hu , Weihua Wang , Feilong Bao

Entity resolution (record linkage or deduplication) is the process of identifying and linking duplicate records in databases. In this paper, we propose a Bayesian graphical approach for entity resolution that links records to latent…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-10 Neil G. Marchant , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Rebecca C. Steorts

This paper introduces a novel evaluation methodology for entity resolution algorithms. It is motivated by PatentsView.org, a U.S. Patents and Trademarks Office patent data exploration tool that disambiguates patent inventors using an entity…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Olivier Binette , Sokhna A York , Emma Hickerson , Youngsoo Baek , Sarvo Madhavan , Christina Jones

The selection, development, or comparison of machine learning methods in data mining can be a difficult task based on the target problem and goals of a particular study. Numerous publicly available real-world and simulated benchmark…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Randal S. Olson , William La Cava , Patryk Orzechowski , Ryan J. Urbanowicz , Jason H. Moore

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

Entity Alignment (EA) aims to detect descriptions of the same real-world entities among different Knowledge Graphs (KG). Several embedding methods have been proposed to rank potentially matching entities of two KGs according to their…

Entity typing is the task of assigning semantic types to the entities that are mentioned in a text. In the case of fine-grained entity typing (FET), a large set of candidate type labels is considered. Since obtaining sufficient amounts of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Frank Mtumbuka , Steven Schockaert

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

An Entity Linking system aligns the textual mentions of entities in a text to their corresponding entries in a knowledge base. However, deploying a neural entity linking system for efficient real-time inference in production environments is…

This paper covers automated settlement of receivables in non-governmental organizations. We tackle the problem with entity matching techniques. We consider setup, where base algorithm is used for preliminary ranking of matches, then we…