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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

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

Existing evaluations of entity linking systems often say little about how the system is going to perform for a particular application. There are two fundamental reasons for this. One is that many evaluations only use aggregate measures…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Hannah Bast , Matthias Hertel , Natalie Prange

We propose a new formulation for multilingual entity linking, where language-specific mentions resolve to a language-agnostic Knowledge Base. We train a dual encoder in this new setting, building on prior work with improved feature…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Jan A. Botha , Zifei Shan , Daniel Gillick

Named entity recognition (NER) is a critical step in modern search query understanding. In the domain of eCommerce, identifying the key entities, such as brand and product type, can help a search engine retrieve relevant products and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xiang Cheng , Mitchell Bowden , Bhushan Ramesh Bhange , Priyanka Goyal , Thomas Packer , Faizan Javed

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

Web search queries can be ambiguous: is "source of the nile" meant to find information on the actual river or on a board game of that name? We tackle this problem by deriving entity-based query interpretations: given some query, the task is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Vaibhav Kasturia , Marcel Gohsen , Matthias Hagen

Entity linking involves aligning textual mentions of named entities to their corresponding entries in a knowledge base. Entity linking systems often exploit relations between textual mentions in a document (e.g., coreference) to decide if…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Phong Le , Ivan Titov

Entity linking (mapping ambiguous mentions in text to entities in a knowledge base) is a foundational step in tasks such as knowledge graph construction, question-answering, and information extraction. Our method, LELA, is a modular…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Samy Haffoudhi , Fabian M. Suchanek , Nils Holzenberger

Entity resolution is the problem of reconciling database references corresponding to the same real-world entities. Given the abundance of publicly available databases that have unresolved entities, we motivate the problem of query-time…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-11-02 I. Bhattacharya , L. Getoor

In this research, we investigate methods for entity retrieval using graph embeddings. While various methods have been proposed over the years, most utilize a single graph embedding and entity linking approach. This hinders our understanding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Emma J. Gerritse , Faegheh Hasibi , Arjen P. de Vries

Entity suggestion by example (ESbE) refers to a type of entity acquisition query in which a user provides a set of example entities as the query and obtains in return some entities that best complete the concept underlying the given query.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Yi Zhang , Yanghua Xiao , Seung-won Hwang , Haixun Wang , X. Sean Wang , Wei Wang

Query Segmentation is one of the critical components for understanding users' search intent in Information Retrieval tasks. It involves grouping tokens in the search query into meaningful phrases which help downstream tasks like search…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Ajinkya Kale , Thrivikrama Taula , Sanjika Hewavitharana , Amit Srivastava

Entity Linking (EL) is the task of automatically identifying entity mentions in a piece of text and resolving them to a corresponding entity in a reference knowledge base like Wikipedia. There is a large number of EL tools available for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Renato Stoffalette João , Pavlos Fafalios , Stefan Dietze

Accurate query-product relevance labeling is indispensable to generate ground truth dataset for search ranking in e-commerce. Traditional approaches for annotating query-product pairs rely on human-based labeling services, which is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Jayant Sachdev , Sean D Rosario , Abhijeet Phatak , He Wen , Swati Kirti , Chittaranjan Tripathy

We address the task of entity-relationship (E-R) retrieval, i.e, given a query characterizing types of two or more entities and relationships between them, retrieve the relevant tuples of related entities. Answering E-R queries requires…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Pedro Saleiro , Natasa Milic-Frayling , Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues , Carlos Soares

Entity-based semantic search has been widely adopted in modern search engines to improve search accuracy by understanding users' intent. In e-commerce, an accurate and complete product type (PT) ontology is essential for recognizing product…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Yun Zhu , Sayyed M. Zahiri , Jiaqi Wang , Han-Yu Chen , Faizan Javed

This paper explores entity embedding effectiveness in ad-hoc entity retrieval, which introduces distributed representation of entities into entity retrieval. The knowledge graph contains lots of knowledge and models entity semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Zhenghao Liu , Chenyan Xiong , Maosong Sun , Zhiyuan Liu

Search query variation poses a challenge in e-commerce search, as equivalent search intents can be expressed through different queries with surface-level differences. This paper introduces a framework to recognize and leverage query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Aritra Mandal , Daniel Tunkelang , Zhe Wu

The explosion of e-commerce has caused the need for processing and analysis of product titles, like entity typing in product titles. However, the rapid activity in e-commerce has led to the rapid emergence of new entities, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Yibo Wang , Congying Xia , Guan Wang , Philip Yu