Entity Matching using Large Language Models

Entity Matching is the task of deciding whether two entity descriptions refer to the same real-world entity. It is a central step in most data integration pipelines and an enabler for many e-commerce applications which require to match products offers from different vendors. State-of-the-art entity matching methods rely on pre-trained language models (PLMs) such as BERT or RoBERTa. Two major drawbacks of these models for entity matching are that (i) the models require significant amounts of task-specific training data and …

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