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One of the most important tasks for improving data quality and the reliability of data analytics results is Entity Resolution (ER). ER aims to identify different descriptions that refer to the same real-world entity, and remains a…

Today, the practice of returning entities from a knowledge base in response to search queries has become widespread. One of the distinctive characteristics of entities is that they are typed, i.e., assigned to some hierarchically organized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Darío Garigliotti , Krisztian Balog

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

Mining entity synonym sets (i.e., sets of terms referring to the same entity) is an important task for many entity-leveraging applications. Previous work either rank terms based on their similarity to a given query term, or treats the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Jiaming Shen , Ruiliang Lyu , Xiang Ren , Michelle Vanni , Brian Sadler , Jiawei Han

Entity matching is the problem of identifying which records refer to the same real-world entity. It has been actively researched for decades, and a variety of different approaches have been developed. Even today, it remains a challenging…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Nils Barlaug , Jon Atle Gulla

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

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 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

Search engines play an important role in our everyday lives by assisting us in finding the information we need. When we input a complex query, however, results are often far from satisfactory. In this work, we introduce a query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Rodrigo Nogueira , Kyunghyun Cho

Entity summarization aims at creating brief but informative descriptions of entities from knowledge graphs. While previous work mostly focused on traditional techniques such as clustering algorithms and graph models, we ask how to apply…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Dongjun Wei , Yaxin Liu , Fuqing Zhu , Liangjun Zang , Wei Zhou , Jizhong Han , Songlin Hu

Improvements of entity-relationship (E-R) search techniques have been hampered by a lack of test collections, particularly for complex queries involving multiple entities and relationships. In this paper we describe a method for generating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Pedro Saleiro , Natasa Milic-Frayling , Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues , Carlos Soares

This paper presents a novel approach to address the Entity Recognition and Linking Challenge at NLPCC 2015. The task involves extracting named entity mentions from short search queries and linking them to entities within a reference Chinese…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Di Lu , Zhongping Liang , Caixia Yuan , Xiaojie Wang

Candidate generation is a crucial module in entity linking. It also plays a key role in multiple NLP tasks that have been proven to beneficially leverage knowledge bases. Nevertheless, it has often been overlooked in the monolingual English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Alberto García-Durán , Akhil Arora , Robert West

Large language model (LLM)-based search agents have proven promising for addressing knowledge-intensive problems by incorporating information retrieval capabilities. Existing works largely focus on optimizing the reasoning paradigms of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Tongyu Wen , Guanting Dong , Zhicheng Dou

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 resolution is a widely studied problem with several proposals to match records across relations. Matching textual content is a widespread task in many applications, such as question answering and search. While recent methods achieve…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Naser Ahmadi , Hansjorg Sand , Paolo Papotti

Entity resolution (ER) is the task of identifying different representations of the same real-world entities across databases. It is a key step for knowledge base creation and text mining. Recent adaptation of deep learning methods for ER…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Jungo Kasai , Kun Qian , Sairam Gurajada , Yunyao Li , Lucian Popa

Deep research agents extend the role of search engines from retrieving keyword-matched pages to synthesizing knowledge, fundamentally changing how humans interact with information. However, frontier systems remain proprietary, while…

Interest in solving table interpretation tasks has grown over the years, yet it still relies on existing datasets that may be overly simplified. This is potentially reducing the effectiveness of the dataset for thorough evaluation and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Aneta Koleva , Martin Ringsquandl , Ahmed Hatem , Thomas Runkler , Volker Tresp

Entity set expansion, taxonomy expansion, and seed-guided taxonomy construction are three representative tasks that can be applied to automatically populate an existing taxonomy with emerging concepts. Previous studies view them as three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yanzhen Shen , Yu Zhang , Yunyi Zhang , Jiawei Han