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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 Recognition (ER) within a text is a fundamental exercise in Natural Language Processing, enabling further depending tasks such as Knowledge Extraction, Text Summarisation, or Keyphrase Extraction. An entity consists of single words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Andreas Waldis , Luca Mazzola

We propose an entity-centric neural cross-lingual coreference model that builds on multi-lingual embeddings and language-independent features. We perform both intrinsic and extrinsic evaluations of our model. In the intrinsic evaluation, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Gourab Kundu , Avirup Sil , Radu Florian , Wael Hamza

The explosive growth of multimodal data has driven the rapid development of multimodal entity linking (MEL) models. However, existing studies have not systematically investigated the impact of visual adversarial attacks on MEL models. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Fang Wang , Yongjie Wang , Zonghao Yang , Minghao Hu , Xiaoying Bai

Entity linking has recently been the subject of a significant body of research. Currently, the best performing approaches rely on trained mono-lingual models. Porting these approaches to other languages is consequently a difficult endeavor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Diego Moussallem , Ricardo Usbeck , Michael Röder , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

In many information extraction applications, entity linking (EL) has emerged as a crucial task that allows leveraging information about named entities from a knowledge base. In this paper, we address the task of multimodal entity linking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Omar Adjali , Romaric Besançon , Olivier Ferret , Herve Le Borgne , Brigitte Grau

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

Processing complex and ambiguous named entities is a challenging research problem, but it has not received sufficient attention from the natural language processing community. In this short paper, we present our participation in the English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Ngoc Minh Lai

Entity Matching (EM), which aims to identify all entity pairs referring to the same real-world entity from relational tables, is one of the most important tasks in real-world data management systems. Due to the labeling process of EM being…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Xiaocan Zeng , Pengfei Wang , Yuren Mao , Lu Chen , Xiaoze Liu , Yunjun Gao

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-aware machine translation (EAMT) is a complicated task in natural language processing due to not only the shortage of translation data related to the entities needed to translate but also the complexity in the context needed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 An Trieu , Phuong Nguyen , Minh Le Nguyen

Multimodal entity linking (MEL) aims to link ambiguous mentions within multimodal contexts to corresponding entities in a multimodal knowledge base. Most existing approaches to MEL are based on representation learning or vision-and-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zhiwei Hu , Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto , Ru Li , Jeff Z. Pan

Neural language models (LM) trained on diverse corpora are known to work well on previously seen entities, however, updating these models with dynamically changing entities such as place names, song titles and shopping items requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Ravi Teja Gadde , Ivan Bulyko

Disease name recognition and normalization, which is generally called biomedical entity linking, is a fundamental process in biomedical text mining. Recently, neural joint learning of both tasks has been proposed to utilize the mutual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Shogo Ujiie , Hayate Iso , Shuntaro Yada , Shoko Wakamiya , Eiji Aramaki

Entity retrieval, which aims at disambiguating mentions to canonical entities from massive KBs, is essential for many tasks in natural language processing. Recent progress in entity retrieval shows that the dual-encoder structure is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xinyin Ma , Yong Jiang , Nguyen Bach , Tao Wang , Zhongqiang Huang , Fei Huang , Weiming Lu

Zero-shot entity linking (EL) aims at aligning entity mentions to unseen entities to challenge the generalization ability. Previous methods largely focus on the candidate retrieval stage and ignore the essential candidate ranking stage,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zhenran Xu , Yulin Chen , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang

Cross-lingual Entity Linking (XEL), the problem of grounding mentions of entities in a foreign language text into an English knowledge base such as Wikipedia, has seen a lot of research in recent years, with a range of promising techniques.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Xingyu Fu , Weijia Shi , Xiaodong Yu , Zian Zhao , Dan Roth

Entity resolution (ER) is a key data integration problem. Despite the efforts in 70+ years in all aspects of ER, there is still a high demand for democratizing ER - humans are heavily involved in labeling data, performing feature…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Muhammad Ebraheem , Saravanan Thirumuruganathan , Shafiq Joty , Mourad Ouzzani , Nan Tang

Unsupervised learning of low-dimensional, semantic representations of words and entities has recently gained attention. In this paper we describe the Semantic Entity Retrieval Toolkit (SERT) that provides implementations of our previously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Christophe Van Gysel , Maarten de Rijke , Evangelos Kanoulas

Entity linking (EL) aligns textual mentions with their corresponding entities in a knowledge base, facilitating various applications such as semantic search and question answering. Recent advances in multimodal entity linking (MEL) have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Juyeon Kim , Geon Lee , Taeuk Kim , Kijung Shin