Title
Automated Comparative Table Generation for Facilitating Human Intervention in Multi-Entity Resolution.
Abstract
Entity resolution (ER), the process of identifying entities that refer to the same real-world object, has long been studied in the knowledge graph (KG) community, among many others. Humans, as a valuable source of background knowledge, are increasingly getting involved in this loop by crowdsourcing and active learning, where presenting condensed and easily-compared information is vital to help human intervene in an ER task. However, current methods for single entity or pairwise summarization cannot well support humans to observe and compare multiple entities simultaneously, which impairs the efficiency and accuracy of human intervention. In this paper, we propose an automated approach to select a few important properties and values for a set of entities, and assemble them by a comparative table. We formulate several optimization problems for generating an optimal comparative table according to intuitive goodness measures and various constraints. Our experiments on real-world datasets, comparison with related work and user study demonstrate the superior efficiency, precision and user satisfaction of our approach in multi-entity resolution (MER).
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3209978.3210021
SIGIR
Keywords
Field
DocType
Entity resolution,knowledge graph,comparative table,multi-entity summarization,holistic property matching
Automatic summarization,Pairwise comparison,Knowledge graph,Active learning,Name resolution,Information retrieval,Computer science,Crowdsourcing,Optimization problem
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5657-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
23
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
JiaCheng Huang121.37
Yuzhong Qu272662.49
Haoxuan Li323.08
Yuzhong Qu492778.03