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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

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

In recent years, deep learning techniques (e.g., U-Net, DeepLab) have achieved tremendous success in image segmentation. The performance of these models heavily relies on high-quality ground truth segment labels. Unfortunately, in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Zhe Jiang , Marcus Stephen Kirby , Wenchong He , Arpan Man Sainju

Linking textual values in tabular data to their corresponding entities in a Knowledge Base is a core task across a variety of data integration and enrichment applications. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown State-of-The-Art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Carlo Bono , Federico Belotti , Matteo Palmonari

Entity Matching (EM) defines the task of learning to group objects by transferring semantic concepts from example groups (=entities) to unseen data. Despite the general availability of image data in the context of many EM-problems, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bianca Lamm , Janis Keuper

Entity linking (mapping ambiguous mentions in text to entities in a knowledge base) is a foundational step in tasks such as knowledge graph construction, question-answering, and information extraction. Our method, LELA, is a modular…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Samy Haffoudhi , Fabian M. Suchanek , Nils Holzenberger

Entity linking (EL) is the process of linking entity mentions appearing in text with their corresponding entities in a knowledge base. EL features of entities (e.g., prior probability, relatedness score, and entity embedding) are usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Chenwei Ran , Wei Shen , Jianbo Gao , Yuhan Li , Jianyong Wang , Yantao Jia

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

In this work, we revisit the problem of semi-supervised named entity recognition (NER) focusing on extremely light supervision, consisting of a lexicon containing only 10 examples per class. We introduce ELLEN, a simple, fully modular,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Haris Riaz , Razvan-Gabriel Dumitru , Mihai Surdeanu

Named Entity Recognition (NER) performance often degrades rapidly when applied to target domains that differ from the texts observed during training. When in-domain labelled data is available, transfer learning techniques can be used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Pierre Lison , Aliaksandr Hubin , Jeremy Barnes , Samia Touileb

Weak supervision has shown promising results in many natural language processing tasks, such as Named Entity Recognition (NER). Existing work mainly focuses on learning deep NER models only with weak supervision, i.e., without any human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Haoming Jiang , Danqing Zhang , Tianyu Cao , Bing Yin , Tuo Zhao

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

State-of-the-art entity matching (EM) methods are hard to interpret, and there is significant value in bringing explainable AI to EM. Unfortunately, most popular explainability methods do not work well out of the box for EM and need…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Nils Barlaug

Entity Matching (EM) is crucial for identifying equivalent data entities across different sources, a task that becomes increasingly challenging with the growth and heterogeneity of data. Blocking techniques, which reduce the computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Mohammad Hossein Moslemi , Harini Balamurugan , Mostafa Milani

The tracking method based on the extreme learning machine (ELM) is efficient and effective. ELM randomly generates input weights and biases in the hidden layer, and then calculates and computes the output weights by reducing the iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Jing Zhang , Huibing Wang , Yonggong Ren

Discovering the intended items of user queries from a massive repository of items is one of the main goals of an e-commerce search system. Relevance prediction is essential to the search system since it helps improve performance. When…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Jiong Cai , Yong Jiang , Yue Zhang , Chengyue Jiang , Ke Yu , Jianhui Ji , Rong Xiao , Haihong Tang , Tao Wang , Zhongqiang Huang , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Kewei Tu

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 Matching (EM) is a critical task in numerous fields, such as healthcare, finance, and public administration, as it identifies records that refer to the same entity within or across different databases. EM faces considerable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Mohammad Hossein Moslemi , Mostafa Milani

In many scenarios, named entity recognition (NER) models severely suffer from unlabeled entity problem, where the entities of a sentence may not be fully annotated. Through empirical studies performed on synthetic datasets, we find two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Yangming Li , Lemao Liu , Shuming Shi

Entity typing (ET) is the problem of assigning labels to given entity mentions in a sentence. Existing works for ET require knowledge about the domain and target label set for a given test instance. ET in the absence of such knowledge is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Abhishek Abhishek , Amar Prakash Azad , Balaji Ganesan , Ashish Anand , Amit Awekar