Pre-trained Embeddings for Entity Resolution: An Experimental Analysis

Summary: Thorough empirical study of 12 pre-trained embeddings (fastText, BERT variants) on 17 ER benchmarks, measuring vectorization cost, blocking scalability vs a SOTA deep blocker, and supervised/unsupervised matching performance. Provides actionable insights on encoding vs accuracy trade-offs. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13261
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 5.947284e-05
Overall Rank: 6,192 | 57.52%
DOI: 10.14778/3598581.3598594

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Authors

1. Alexandros Zeakis (Athena Research Center; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
2. George Papadakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
3. Dimitrios Skoutas (Athena Research Center)
4. Manolis Koubarakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zeakis_vldb23,
        title = {{Pre-trained Embeddings for Entity Resolution: An Experimental Analysis}},
        author = {Zeakis, Alexandros and Papadakis, George and Skoutas, Dimitrios and Koubarakis, Manolis},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {9},
        pages = {2225--2238},
        doi = {10.14778/3598581.3598594},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3598581.3598594},
        year = {2023}
}

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7,501	TableDC: Deep Clustering for Tabular Data	2025	SIGMOD	5.6029996e-05
8,860	Watchog: A Light-weight Contrastive Learning based Framework for Column Annotation	2023	SIGMOD	5.3564029e-05
9,992	Progressive Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2025	SIGMOD	5.1815618e-05
10,131	Towards Scalable Visual Data Wrangling via Direct Manipulation	2026	CIDR	5.093636e-05
10,566	ALER: An Active Learning Hybrid System for Efficient Entity Resolution	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,270	Searching Data Lakes for Nested and Joined Data	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
141	Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models	2021	VLDB	0.0002964847
176	Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2018	SIGMOD	0.00027191081
248	Evaluation of entity resolution approaches on real-world match problems	2010	VLDB	0.00023278354
427	Big Data Integration	2013	VLDB	0.00018661543
489	Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution	2018	VLDB	0.0001761456
626	Entity Resolution: Theory, Practice & Open Challenges	2012	VLDB	0.00015656958
2,120	Comparative Analysis of Approximate Blocking Techniques for Entity Resolution	2016	VLDB	9.1406654e-05
2,290	ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples	2020	SIGMOD	8.799251e-05
2,475	Deep Learning for Blocking in Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2021	VLDB	8.5277654e-05
4,447	Dual-Objective Fine-Tuning of BERT for Entity Matching	2021	VLDB	6.6984471e-05
4,449	From BERT to GPT-3 Codex: Harnessing the Potential of Very Large Language Models for Data Management	2022	VLDB	6.697553e-05
5,018	Schema-agnostic vs Schema-based Configurations for Blocking Methods on Homogeneous Data	2016	VLDB	6.3993079e-05
5,606	Analyzing How BERT Performs Entity Matching	2022	VLDB	6.1521568e-05

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