Entity matching on unstructured data : an active learning approach

Brunner, Ursin; Stockinger, Kurt

doi:10.1109/SDS.2019.00006

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3197

Publication type:	Conference paper
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	Entity matching on unstructured data : an active learning approach
Authors:	Brunner, Ursin Stockinger, Kurt
DOI:	10.1109/SDS.2019.00006 10.21256/zhaw-3197
Proceedings:	Proceedings of the 6th SDS
Page(s):	97
Pages to:	102
Conference details:	Swiss Conference on Data Science, Berne, Switzerland, 14 June 2019
Issue Date:	14-Jun-2019
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	IEEE
ISBN:	978-1-7281-3105-4
Language:	English
Subjects:	Entity matching; Active learning; Data integration; Unstructured data
Subject (DDC):	005: Computer programming, programs and data 006: Special computer methods
Abstract:	With the growing number of data sources in enterprises, entity matching becomes a crucial part of every data integration project. In order to reduce the human effort involved in identifying matching entities between different database tables, typically machine learning algorithms are applied. Moreover, active learning is often combined with supervised machine learning methods to further reduce the effort of labeling entities as true or false matches. However, while state-of-the-art active learning algorithms have proven to work well on structured data sets, unstructured data still poses a challenge in entity matching. This paper proposes an end-to-end entity matching pipeline to minimize the human labeling effort for entity matching on unstructured data sets. We use several natural language processing techniques such as soft tf-idf to pre-process the record pairs before we classify them using a novel Active Learning with Uncertainty Sampling (ALWUS) algorithm. We designed our algorithm as a plug-in system to work with any state-of-the-art classifier such as support vector machines, random forests or deep neural networks. Detailed experimental results demonstrate that our end-to-end entity matching pipeline clearly outperforms comparable entity matching approaches on an unstructured real-word data set. Our approach achieves significantly better scores (F1-score) while using 1 to 2 orders of magnitude fewer human labeling efforts than existing state-of-the-art algorithms.
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URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/17388
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Departement:	School of Engineering
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Computer Science (InIT)
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Brunner, U., & Stockinger, K. (2019). Entity matching on unstructured data : an active learning approach [Conference paper]. Proceedings of the 6th SDS, 97–102. https://doi.org/10.1109/SDS.2019.00006

Brunner, U. and Stockinger, K. (2019) ‘Entity matching on unstructured data : an active learning approach’, in Proceedings of the 6th SDS. IEEE, pp. 97–102. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/SDS.2019.00006.

U. Brunner and K. Stockinger, “Entity matching on unstructured data : an active learning approach,” in Proceedings of the 6th SDS, Jun. 2019, pp. 97–102. doi: 10.1109/SDS.2019.00006.

BRUNNER, Ursin und Kurt STOCKINGER, 2019. Entity matching on unstructured data : an active learning approach. In: Proceedings of the 6th SDS. Conference paper. IEEE. 14 Juni 2019. S. 97–102. ISBN 978-1-7281-3105-4

Brunner, Ursin, and Kurt Stockinger. 2019. “Entity Matching on Unstructured Data : An Active Learning Approach.” Conference paper. In Proceedings of the 6th SDS, 97–102. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SDS.2019.00006.

Brunner, Ursin, and Kurt Stockinger. “Entity Matching on Unstructured Data : An Active Learning Approach.” Proceedings of the 6th SDS, IEEE, 2019, pp. 97–102, https://doi.org/10.1109/SDS.2019.00006.