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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 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

Entity Resolution (ER) is the task of finding records that refer to the same real-world entities. A common scenario is when entities across two clean sources need to be resolved, which we refer to as Clean-Clean ER. In this paper, we…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-01 George Papadakis , Vasilis Efthymiou , Emanouil Thanos , Oktie Hassanzadeh

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

Many joint entity relation extraction models setup two separated label spaces for the two sub-tasks (i.e., entity detection and relation classification). We argue that this setting may hinder the information interaction between entities and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Yijun Wang , Changzhi Sun , Yuanbin Wu , Hao Zhou , Lei Li , Junchi Yan

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)--the task of determining whether two data records refer to the same real-world entity--is a core task in data integration. Recent advances in deep learning have set a new standard for EM, particularly through…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Nicholas Pulsone , Roee Shraga , Gregory Goren

Entity linking (EL) is the computational process of connecting textual mentions to corresponding entities. Like many areas of natural language processing, the EL field has greatly benefited from deep learning, leading to significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Dominik Farhan

Entity linking (EL) is the task of automatically identifying entity mentions in text and resolving them to a corresponding entity in a reference knowledge base like Wikipedia. Throughout the past decade, a plethora of EL systems and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Renato Stoffalette João , Pavlos Fafalios , Stefan Dietze

Matching identical products present in multiple product feeds constitutes a crucial element of many tasks of e-commerce, such as comparing product offerings, dynamic price optimization, and selecting the assortment personalized for the…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Alicja Martinek , Szymon Łukasik , Amir H. Gandomi

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

Entity matching is a fundamental task in data cleaning and data integration. With the rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs), recent studies have explored zero-shot and few-shot prompting to improve entity matching accuracy.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Rohan Bopardikar , Jin Wang , Jia Zou

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

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…

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

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 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

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

Entity summarization is the problem of computing an optimal compact summary for an entity by selecting a size-constrained subset of triples from RDF data. Entity summarization supports a multiplicity of applications and has led to fruitful…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Qingxia Liu , Gong Cheng , Kalpa Gunaratna , Yuzhong Qu

Entity resolution (ER) is the task of identifying records belonging to the same entity (e.g. individual, group) across one or multiple databases. Ironically, it has multiple names: deduplication and record linkage, among others. In this…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Matt Barnes