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Entity matching (EM) is a critical task in data integration, aiming to identify records across different datasets that refer to the same real-world entities. Traditional methods often rely on manually engineered features and rule-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Qianyu Huang , Tongfang Zhao

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 task of deciding whether two entity descriptions refer to the same real-world entity. Entity matching is a central step in most data integration pipelines. Many state-of-the-art entity matching methods rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Ralph Peeters , Aaron Steiner , Christian Bizer

Multi-table entity matching (MEM) addresses the limitations of dual-table approaches by enabling simultaneous identification of equivalent entities across multiple data sources without unique identifiers. However, existing methods relying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yingkai Tang , Taoyu Su , Wenyuan Zhang , Xiaoyang Guo , Tingwen Liu

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

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) is a fundamental data quality improvement task that identifies and links records referring to the same real-world entity. Traditional ER approaches often rely on pairwise comparisons, which can be costly in terms of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jiajie Fu , Haitong Tang , Arijit Khan , Sharad Mehrotra , Xiangyu Ke , Yunjun Gao

Entity Alignment (EA) seeks to identify and match corresponding entities across different Knowledge Graphs (KGs), playing a crucial role in knowledge fusion and integration. Embedding-based entity alignment (EA) has recently gained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Xuan Chen , Tong Lu , Zhichun Wang

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

This article analyzes the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as support for the conceptual modeling of relational databases through the automatic generation of Entity-Relationship (ER) diagrams from natural language requirements. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Arthur F. Siqueira , Carlos D. S. Nogueira , Eduarda Farias , Claudio E. C. Campelo , Júlia Menezes

Generative large language models (LLMs) are a promising alternative to pre-trained language models for entity matching due to their high zero-shot performance and ability to generalize to unseen entities. Existing research on using LLMs for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Aaron Steiner , Ralph Peeters , Christian Bizer

Entity Matching (EM) involves identifying different data representations referring to the same entity from multiple data sources and is typically formulated as a binary classification problem. It is a challenging problem in data integration…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 John Bosco Mugeni , Steven Lynden , Toshiyuki Amagasa , Akiyoshi Matono

Entity Matching (EM) is a core data cleaning task, aiming to identify different mentions of the same real-world entity. Active learning is one way to address the challenge of scarce labeled data in practice, by dynamically collecting the…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Venkata Vamsikrishna Meduri , Lucian Popa , Prithviraj Sen , Mohamed Sarwat

Entity Alignment (EA) is vital for integrating diverse knowledge graph (KG) data, playing a crucial role in data-driven AI applications. Traditional EA methods primarily rely on comparing entity embeddings, but their effectiveness is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xuhui Jiang , Yinghan Shen , Zhichao Shi , Chengjin Xu , Wei Li , Zixuan Li , Jian Guo , Huawei Shen , Yuanzhuo Wang

Aligning terminological resources, including ontologies, controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and value sets is a critical part of data integration in many domains such as healthcare, chemistry, and biomedical research. Entity mapping is…

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 Linking (EL), the task of mapping textual entity mentions to their corresponding entries in knowledge bases, constitutes a fundamental component of natural language understanding. Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jiajun Hou , Chenyu Zhang , Rui Meng

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 is the task of linking records from different sources that refer to the same real-world entity. Past work has primarily treated entity linking as a standard supervised learning problem. However, supervised entity matching…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Somin Wadhwa , Adit Krishnan , Runhui Wang , Byron C. Wallace , Chris Kong

The remarkable success of Large Language Models (LLMs) has ushered natural language processing (NLP) research into a new era. Despite their diverse capabilities, LLMs trained on different corpora exhibit varying strengths and weaknesses,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jinliang Lu , Ziliang Pang , Min Xiao , Yaochen Zhu , Rui Xia , Jiajun Zhang
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