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Entity matching (EM) refers to the problem of identifying pairs of data records in one or more relational tables that refer to the same entity in the real world. Supervised machine learning (ML) models currently achieve state-of-the-art…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Renzhi Wu , Alexander Bendeck , Xu Chu , Yeye He

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

Entity Alignment (EA) aims to detect descriptions of the same real-world entities among different Knowledge Graphs (KG). Several embedding methods have been proposed to rank potentially matching entities of two KGs according to their…

Similarity search is an important function in many applications, which usually focuses on measuring the similarity between objects with the same type. However, in many scenarios, we need to measure the relatedness between objects with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Chuan Shi , Xiangnan Kong , Yue Huang , Philip S. Yu , Bin Wu

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 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 Matching (EM) defines the task of learning to group objects by transferring semantic concepts from example groups (=entities) to unseen data. Despite the general availability of image data in the context of many EM-problems, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bianca Lamm , Janis Keuper

Entity alignment is to find identical entities in different knowledge graphs (KGs) that refer to the same real-world object. Embedding-based entity alignment techniques have been drawing a lot of attention recently because they can help…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Xiaobin Tian , Zequn Sun , Guangyao Li , Wei Hu

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

Since real-world objects and their interactions are often multi-modal and multi-typed, heterogeneous networks have been widely used as a more powerful, realistic, and generic superclass of traditional homogeneous networks (graphs).…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Carl Yang , Yuxin Xiao , Yu Zhang , Yizhou Sun , Jiawei Han

Semantic Heterogeneity is conventionally understood as the existence of variance in the representation of a target reality when modelled, by independent parties, in different databases, schemas and/ or data. We argue that the mere encoding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Fausto Giunchiglia , Mayukh Bagchi

Data heterogeneity plays a pivotal role in determining the performance of machine learning (ML) systems. Traditional algorithms, which are typically designed to optimize average performance, often overlook the intrinsic diversity within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiashuo Liu , Peng Cui

Entity information network is used to describe structural relationships between entities. Taking advantage of its extension and heterogeneity, entity information network is more and more widely applied to relationship modeling. Recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Liang Yin , Li-Chen Shi , Jun-Yan Zhao , Song-Yang Du , Wen-Bo Xie , Duan-Bing Chen

The flourishing of knowledge graph applications has driven the need for entity alignment (EA) across KGs. However, the heterogeneity of practical KGs, characterized by differing scales, structures, and limited overlapping entities, greatly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Xuhui Jiang , Chengjin Xu , Yinghan Shen , Yuanzhuo Wang , Fenglong Su , Fei Sun , Zixuan Li , Zhichao Shi , Jian Guo , Huawei Shen

Most real-world data can be modeled as heterogeneous information networks (HINs) consisting of vertices of multiple types and their relationships. Search for similar vertices of the same type in large HINs, such as bibliographic networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Jingbo Shang , Meng Qu , Jialu Liu , Lance M. Kaplan , Jiawei Han , Jian Peng

Entity Matching is an essential part of all real-world systems that take in structured and unstructured data coming from different sources. Typically no common key is available for connecting records. Massive data cleaning and integration…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Ran Ziv , Ilan Gronau , Michael Fire

With the recent availability of Electronic Health Records (EHR) and great opportunities they offer for advancing medical informatics, there has been growing interest in mining EHR for improving quality of care. Disease diagnosis due to its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Anahita Hosseini , Ting Chen , Wenjun Wu , Yizhou Sun , Majid Sarrafzadeh

Entity resolution (ER) refers to the problem of matching records in one or more relations that refer to the same real-world entity. While supervised machine learning (ML) approaches achieve the state-of-the-art results, they require a large…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Renzhi Wu , Sanya Chaba , Saurabh Sawlani , Xu Chu , Saravanan Thirumuruganathan

Heterogeneous information network (HIN) embedding has recently attracted much attention due to its effectiveness in dealing with the complex heterogeneous data. Meta path, which connects different object types with various semantic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Sheng Zhou , Jiajun Bu , Xin Wang , Jiawei Chen , Can Wang

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