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In this work, we explore the problem of correctly and efficiently answering complex SPJ queries issued directly on top of dirty data. We introduce QueryER, a framework that seamlessly integrates Entity Resolution into Query Processing.…

Probabilistic databases play a preeminent role in the processing and management of uncertain data. Recently, many database research efforts have integrated probabilistic models into databases to support tasks such as information extraction…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Christan Grant , Daisy Zhe Wang , Michael L. Wick

Entity resolution (ER) is a fundamental task in data integration that enables insights from heterogeneous data sources. The primary challenge of ER lies in classifying record pairs as matches or nonmatches, which in multi-source ER (MS-ER)…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Victor Christen , Peter Christen

The same real-world entity (e.g., a movie, a restaurant, a person) may be described in various ways on different datasets. Entity Resolution (ER) aims to find such different descriptions of the same entity, this way improving data quality…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Konstantinos Nikoletos , Vasilis Efthymiou , George Papadakis , Kostas Stefanidis

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 Resolution (ER) aims to identify whether two tuples refer to the same real-world entity and is well-known to be labor-intensive. It is a prerequisite to anomaly detection, as comparing the attribute values of two matched tuples from…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Congcong Ge , Pengfei Wang , Lu Chen , Xiaoze Liu , Baihua Zheng , Yunjun Gao

Accurate and efficient entity resolution (ER) is a significant challenge in many data mining and analysis projects requiring integrating and processing massive data collections. It is becoming increasingly important in real-world…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Samudra Herath , Matthew Roughan , Gary Glonek

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

Entity resolution has been an essential and well-studied task in data cleaning research for decades. Existing work has discussed the feasibility of utilizing pre-trained language models to perform entity resolution and achieved promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Liri Fang , Lan Li , Yiren Liu , Vetle I. Torvik , Bertram Ludäscher

Entity linking and resolution is a fundamental database problem with applications in data integration, data cleansing, information retrieval, knowledge fusion, and knowledge-base population. It is the task of accurately identifying…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Jixue Liu , Selasi Kwashie , Jiuyong Li , Lin Liu , Michael Bewong

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 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

This paper studies the discovery of approximate rules in property graphs. We propose a semantically meaningful measure of error for mining graph entity dependencies (GEDs) at almost hold, to tolerate errors and inconsistencies that exist in…

Accurate and efficient entity resolution (ER) has been a problem in data analysis and data mining projects for decades. In our work, we are interested in developing ER methods to handle big data. Good public datasets are restricted in this…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-08 Samudra Herath , Matthew Roughan , Gary Glonek

Entity resolution (ER) is about identifying and merging records in a database that represent the same real-world entity. Matching dependencies (MDs) have been introduced and investigated as declarative rules that specify ER policies. An ER…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Zeinab Bahmani , Leopoldo Bertossi

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

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the task of identifying and classifying named entities in unstructured text. In the legal domain, named entities of interest may include the case parties, judges, names of courts, case numbers, references…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Stavroula Skylaki , Ali Oskooei , Omar Bari , Nadja Herger , Zac Kriegman

Exploring relationships across data sources is a crucial optimization for entities recognition. Since databases can store big amount of information with synthetic and organic data, serving all quantity of objects correctly is an important…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Dmitry Moskalev

Entity resolution (ER) is an important data integration task with a wide spectrum of applications. The state-of-the-art solutions on ER rely on pre-trained language models (PLMs), which require fine-tuning on a lot of labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Meihao Fan , Xiaoyue Han , Ju Fan , Chengliang Chai , Nan Tang , Guoliang Li , Xiaoyong Du

The recognition of named entities in visually-rich documents (VrD-NER) plays a critical role in various real-world scenarios and applications. However, the research in VrD-NER faces three major challenges: complex document layouts,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yi Tu , Chong Zhang , Ya Guo , Huan Chen , Jinyang Tang , Huijia Zhu , Qi Zhang