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In this paper, we present an end-to-end multi-source Entity Matching problem, which we call entity group matching, where the goal is to assign to the same group, records originating from multiple data sources but representing the same…

Named Entity Recognition seeks to extract substrings within a text that name real-world objects and to determine their type (for example, whether they refer to persons or organizations). In this survey, we first present an overview of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Imed Keraghel , Stanislas Morbieu , Mohamed Nadif

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

Entity alignment (EA) seeks identical entities in different knowledge graphs, which is a long-standing task in the database research. Recent work leverages deep learning to embed entities in vector space and align them via nearest neighbor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Xiaobin Tian , Zequn Sun , Wei Hu

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

The growing popularity of Virtual Assistants poses new challenges for Entity Resolution, the task of linking mentions in text to their referent entities in a knowledge base. Specifically, in the shopping domain, customers tend to use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Ying Lin , Han Wang , Jiangning Chen , Tong Wang , Yue Liu , Heng Ji , Yang Liu , Premkumar Natarajan

Entity-aware image captioning aims to describe named entities and events related to the image by utilizing the background knowledge in the associated article. This task remains challenging as it is difficult to learn the association between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Wentian Zhao , Yao Hu , Heda Wang , Xinxiao Wu , Jiebo Luo

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 (ER) is the problem of determining when two entities refer to the same underlying entity. The problem has been studied for over 50 years, and most recently, has taken on new importance in an era of large, heterogeneous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Mayank Kejriwal

We propose DEER (Descriptive Knowledge Graph for Explaining Entity Relationships) - an open and informative form of modeling entity relationships. In DEER, relationships between entities are represented by free-text relation descriptions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Jie Huang , Kerui Zhu , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-mei Hwu

Entity matching is a crucial component in various recommender systems, including conversational recommender systems (CRS) and knowledge-based recommender systems. However, the lack of rigorous evaluation frameworks for cross-dataset entity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zihan Huang , Rohan Surana , Zhouhang Xie , Junda Wu , Yu Xia , Julian McAuley

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

Entity resolution, a longstanding problem of data cleaning and integration, aims at identifying data records that represent the same real-world entity. Existing approaches treat entity resolution as a universal task, assuming the existence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Bar Genossar , Roee Shraga , Avigdor Gal

In the last few years, the interest in knowledge bases has grown exponentially in both the research community and the industry due to their essential role in AI applications. Entity alignment is an important task for enriching knowledge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Rui Zhang , Bayu Distiawan Trisedy , Miao Li , Yong Jiang , Jianzhong Qi

Entity alignment (EA) aims to identify entities across different knowledge graphs (KGs) that refer to the same real-world object and plays a critical role in knowledge fusion and integration. Traditional EA methods mainly rely on knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yixuan Nan , Xixun Lin , Yanmin Shang , Ge Zhang , Zheng Fang , Fang Fang , Yanan Cao

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

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 Alignment (EA) identifies entities across databases that refer to the same entity. Knowledge graph-based embedding methods have recently dominated EA techniques. Such methods map entities to a low-dimension space and align them based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Deepak Chaurasiya , Anil Surisetty , Nitish Kumar , Alok Singh , Vikrant Dey , Aakarsh Malhotra , Gaurav Dhama , Ankur Arora

Entity resolution (ER) is the problem of identifying and merging records that refer to the same real-world entity. In many scenarios, raw records are stored under heterogeneous environment. Specifically, the schemas of records may differ…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Yiming Lin , Hongzhi Wang , Jianzhong Li , Hong Gao

Entity Resolution (ER) is a constitutional part for integrating different knowledge graphs in order to identify entities referring to the same real-world object. A promising approach is the use of graph embeddings for ER in order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Daniel Obraczka , Jonathan Schuchart , Erhard Rahm