Bi-directional Joint Inference for Entity Resolution and Segmentation Using Imperatively-Defined Factor Graphs
Publication Date
2009
Journal or Book Title
MACHINE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASES, PT II
Abstract
There has been growing interest in using joint inference across multiple subtasks as a mechanism for avoiding the cascading accumulation of errors in traditional pipelines. Several recent papers demonstrate joint inference between the segmentation of entity mentions and their de-duplication, however, they have various weaknesses: inference information flows only in one direction, the number of uncertain hypotheses is severely limited, or the subtasks are only loosely coupled. This paper presents a highly-coupled, bi-directional approach to joint inference based on efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling in a relational conditional random field. The model is specified with our new probabilistic programming language that leverages imperative constructs to define factor graph structure and operation. Experimental results show that our approach provides a dramatic reduction in error while also running faster than the previous state-of-the-art system.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04174-7_27
Pages
414-429
Volume
5782
Book Series Title
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Recommended Citation
Singh, S; Schultz, K; and McCallum, A, "Bi-directional Joint Inference for Entity Resolution and Segmentation Using Imperatively-Defined Factor Graphs" (2009). MACHINE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASES, PT II. 884.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04174-7_27