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In this paper, we present ASPEN, an answer set programming (ASP) implementation of a recently proposed declarative framework for collective entity resolution (ER). While an ASP encoding had been previously suggested, several practical…

Knowledge bases (KBs) store rich yet heterogeneous entities and facts. Entity resolution (ER) aims to identify entities in KBs which refer to the same real-world object. Recent studies have shown significant benefits of involving humans in…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Jiacheng Huang , Wei Hu , Zhifeng Bao , Yuzhong Qu

Entity resolution (ER), comprising record linkage and de-duplication, is the process of merging noisy databases in the absence of unique identifiers to remove duplicate entities. One major challenge of analysis with linked data is…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-10 Andee Kaplan , Brenda Betancourt , Rebecca C. Steorts

Experience replay (ER) is a crucial component of many deep reinforcement learning (RL) systems. However, uniform sampling from an ER buffer can lead to slow convergence and unstable asymptotic behaviors. This paper introduces Stratified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Varun Kompella , Thomas J. Walsh , Samuel Barrett , Peter Wurman , Peter Stone

Entity resolution (ER) presents unique challenges for evaluation methodology. While crowdsourcing platforms acquire ground truth, sound approaches to sampling must drive labelling efforts. In ER, extreme class imbalance between matching and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Neil G. Marchant , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

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

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

Batch Bayesian optimisation and Bayesian quadrature have been shown to be sample-efficient methods of performing optimisation and quadrature where expensive-to-evaluate objective functions can be queried in parallel. However, current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Masaki Adachi , Satoshi Hayakawa , Saad Hamid , Martin Jørgensen , Harald Oberhauser , Micheal A. Osborne

In this paper, the authors propose TriBERTa, a supervised entity resolution system that utilizes a pre-trained large language model and a triplet loss function to learn representations for entity matching. The system consists of two steps:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Xiaowei Xu , Bi T. Foua , Xingqiao Wang , Vivek Gunasekaran , John R. Talburt

Entity resolution (ER; also known as record linkage or de-duplication) is the process of merging noisy databases, often in the absence of unique identifiers. A major advancement in ER methodology has been the application of Bayesian…

Experience replay is widely used to improve learning efficiency in reinforcement learning by leveraging past experiences. However, existing experience replay methods, whether based on uniform or prioritized sampling, often suffer from low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Kaiyan Zhao , Yiming Wang , Yuyang Chen , Yan Li , Leong Hou U , Xiaoguang Niu

A plethora of approaches have been proposed for joint entity-relation (ER) extraction. Most of these methods largely depend on a large amount of manually annotated training data. However, manual data annotation is time consuming, labor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Trung Hoang Le , Huiping Cao , Tran Cao Son

Entity resolution (ER) remains a significant challenge in data management, especially when dealing with large datasets. This paper introduces MERAI (Massive Entity Resolution using AI), a robust and efficient pipeline designed to address…

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

Entity Resolution, also called record linkage or deduplication, refers to the process of identifying and merging duplicate versions of the same entity into a unified representation. The standard practice is to use a Rule based or Machine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Janani Balaji , Faizan Javed , Mayank Kejriwal , Chris Min , Sam Sander , Ozgur Ozturk

Entity alignment (EA) aims to find the equivalent entities in different KGs, which is a crucial step in integrating multiple KGs. However, most existing EA methods have poor scalability and are unable to cope with large-scale datasets. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Xin Mao , Wenting Wang , Yuanbin Wu , Man Lan

Dirty entity resolution (ER), which identifies records referring to the same real-world entity from a single, messy dataset, is a fundamental task in data management and mining. However, the dominant blocking-matching-clustering paradigm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hongtao Wang , Renchi Yang , Haoran Zheng , Xiangyu Ke

In reinforcement learning (RL), experience replay-based sampling techniques play a crucial role in promoting convergence by eliminating spurious correlations. However, widely used methods such as uniform experience replay (UER) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Ramnath Kumar , Dheeraj Nagaraj

Entity Set Expansion (ESE) is a critical task aiming at expanding entities of the target semantic class described by seed entities. Most existing ESE methods are retrieval-based frameworks that need to extract contextual features of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shulin Huang , Shirong Ma , Yangning Li , Yinghui Li , Hai-Tao Zheng

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