With the rapid advancement of information technology, online information has been
exponentially growing day by day, especially in the form of text documents such as news …

The large number of potential applications from bridging web data with knowledge bases
have led to an increase in the entity linking research. Entity linking is the task to link entity …

Background Computer-based learning (CBL) has been widely used in medical education,
and reports regarding its usage and effectiveness have ranged broadly. Most work has been …

Often, in the real world, entities have two or more representations in databases. Duplicate
records do not share a common key and/or they contain errors that make duplicate matching …

The automatic extraction of information from unstructured sources has opened up new
avenues for querying, organizing, and analyzing data by drawing upon the clean semantics …

With the increasing amount of data and the need to integrate data from multiple data
sources, one of the challenging issues is to identify near-duplicate records efficiently. In this …

Tables are a universal idiom to present relational data. Billions of tables on Web pages
express entity references, attributes and relationships. This representation of relational world …

Many databases contain uncertain and imprecise references to real-world entities. The
absence of identifiers for the underlying entities often results in a database which contains …

Data integration is a pervasive challenge faced in applications that need to query across
multiple autonomous and heterogeneous data sources. Data integration is crucial in large …

With the ever increasing volume of data, data quality problems abound. Multiple, yet different
representations of the same real-world objects in data, duplicates, are one of the most …