Title
Gradual Machine Learning for Entity Resolution.
Abstract
Usually considered as a classification problem, entity resolution can be very challenging on real data due to the prevalence of dirty values. The state-of-the-art solutions for ER were built on a variety of learning models (most notably deep neural networks), which require lots of accurately labeled training data. Unfortunately, high-quality labeled data usually require expensive manual work, and are therefore not readily available in many real scenarios. In this demo, we propose a novel learning paradigm for ER, called gradual machine learning, which aims to enable effective machine labeling without the requirement for manual labeling effort. It begins with some easy instances in a task, which can be automatically labeled by the machine with high accuracy, and then gradually labels more challenging instances based on iterative factor graph inference. In gradual machine learning, the hard instances in a task are gradually labeled in small stages based on the estimated evidential certainty provided by the labeled easier instances. Our extensive experiments on real data have shown that the proposed approach performs considerably better than its unsupervised alternatives, and its performance is also highly competitive compared to the state-of-the-art supervised techniques. Using ER as a test case, we demonstrate that gradual machine learning is a promising paradigm potentially applicable to other challenging classification tasks requiring extensive labeling effort. Video: https://youtu.be/99bA9aamsgk
Year
Venue
Keywords
2018
WWW '19: The Web Conference on The World Wide Web Conference WWW 2019
entity resolution, gradual machine learning, unsupervised learning
Field
DocType
Volume
Training set,Factor graph,Name resolution,Inference,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Learning models,Labeled data,Machine learning,Deep neural networks
Journal
abs/1810.12125
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
34
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Boyi Hou1115.36
Qun Chen201.35
yanyan wang37721.79
Ping Zhong44011.34
Murtadha H. M. Ahmed524.11
Zhaoqiang Chen623.09
Zhanhuai Li775.97