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In many government applications we often find that information about entities, such as persons, are available in disparate data sources such as passports, driving licences, bank accounts, and income tax records. Similar scenarios are…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Pankaj Malhotra , Puneet Agarwal , Gautam Shroff

Usually considered as a classification problem, entity resolution (ER) can be very challenging on real data due to the prevalence of dirty values. The state-of-the-art solutions for ER were built on a variety of learning models (most…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Boyi Hou , Qun Chen , Yanyan Wang , Youcef Nafa , Zhanhuai Li

Accurate and efficient entity resolution is an open challenge of particular relevance to intelligence organisations that collect large datasets from disparate sources with differing levels of quality and standard. Starting from a…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Yuhang Zhang , Kee Siong Ng , Michael Walker , Pauline Chou , Tania Churchill , Peter Christen

Entity Linking involves detecting and linking entity mentions in natural language texts to a knowledge graph. Traditional methods use a two-step process with separate models for entity recognition and disambiguation, which can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Daniel Vollmers , Hamada M. Zahera , Diego Moussallem , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

This paper is intended to provide an overview of how the evaluation of standards could be applied to entity resolution, or record linkage. Data quality is of critical importance for many AI applications, and the quality of data,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Julia Lane

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 2017-01-19 Zeinab Bahmani , Leopoldo Bertossi , Nikolaos Vasiloglou

An increasing number of entities are described by interlinked data rather than documents on the Web. Entity Resolution (ER) aims to identify descriptions of the same real-world entity within one or across knowledge bases in the Web of data.…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Vasilis Efthymiou , Kostas Stefanidis , Vassilis Christophides

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 disambiguation, or mapping a phrase to its canonical representation in a knowledge base, is a fundamental step in many natural language processing applications. Existing techniques based on global ranking models fail to capture the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Tiep Mai , Bichen Shi , Patrick K. Nicholson , Deepak Ajwani , Alessandra Sala

To address a looming crisis of unreproducible evaluation for named entity recognition, we propose guidelines and introduce SeqScore, a software package to improve reproducibility. The guidelines we propose are extremely simple and center…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Chester Palen-Michel , Nolan Holley , Constantine Lignos

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

Pure machine-based solutions usually struggle in the challenging classification tasks such as entity resolution (ER). To alleviate this problem, a recent trend is to involve the human in the resolution process, most notably the…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Zhaoqiang Chen , Qun Chen , Boyi Hou , Murtadha Ahmed , Zhanhuai Li

Entity linking aims to link ambiguous mentions to their corresponding entities in a knowledge base. One of the key challenges comes from insufficient labeled data for specific domains. Although dense retrievers have achieved excellent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Yulin Chen , Zhenran Xu , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang

Entity resolution, the task of identifying and merging records that refer to the same real-world entity, is crucial in sectors like e-commerce, healthcare, and law enforcement. Large Language Models (LLMs) introduce an innovative approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Huahang Li , Longyu Feng , Shuangyin Li , Fei Hao , Chen Jason Zhang , Yuanfeng Song

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 Resolution (ER) is the task of finding entity profiles that correspond to the same real-world entity. Progressive ER aims to efficiently resolve large datasets when limited time and/or computational resources are available. In…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Giovanni Simonini , George Papadakis , Themis Palpanas , Sonia Bergamaschi

Knowledge bases (KBs) store rich yet heterogeneous entities and facts. Entity resolution (ER) aims to identify entities in KBs which refer to the same real-world object. Recent studies have shown significant benefits of involving humans in…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Jiacheng Huang , Wei Hu , Zhifeng Bao , Yuzhong Qu

Entity resolution, which involves identifying and merging records that refer to the same real-world entity, is a crucial task in areas like Web data integration. This importance is underscored by the presence of numerous duplicated and…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Huahang Li , Shuangyin Li , Fei Hao , Chen Jason Zhang , Yuanfeng Song , Lei Chen

Entity disambiguation (ED), which links the mentions of ambiguous entities to their referent entities in a knowledge base, serves as a core component in entity linking (EL). Existing generative approaches demonstrate improved accuracy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Junxiong Wang , Ali Mousavi , Omar Attia , Ronak Pradeep , Saloni Potdar , Alexander M. Rush , Umar Farooq Minhas , Yunyao Li

Commonly, AI or machine learning (ML) models are evaluated on benchmark datasets. This practice supports innovative methodological research, but benchmark performance can be poorly correlated with performance in real-world applications -- a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Olivier Binette , Jerome P. Reiter