[Corpora-List] Entity Resolution Workshop: Call for Participation

[Miller, Keith J.]

Workshop on Resources and Evaluation for Identity Matching, Entity
Resolution and Entity Management

 

LREC 2008 Workshop <blocked::http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/> 

31 May 2008

 

Register at the LREC Conference website:
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/
<blocked::http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/> 

 

 

Final Call for Participation

 

Structured repositories of data about people are being created through
information extraction from unstructured text as well as from sources
that may themselves be structured documents such as passports or
customer transactions.  Problems arise in managing these structured
repositories and integrating information from diverse sources.  For
example, newly added information must be consistent with existing
information, must avoid duplication, and must be associated with an
existing entity when that is appropriate.  Researchers have addressed
these problems in different contexts with goals such as name or record
matching, identity resolution, and entity disambiguation.  In this
workshop, researchers with different perspectives will focus on the
development of resources, algorithms and evaluation methodologies to
improve the technology for managing structured repositories of identity
data.

 

Evaluation measures for tasks that integrate person information are
especially challenging.  Whereas it is generally accepted that entity
extraction systems can be evaluated using MUC scoring metrics, the case
is less clear for "follow-on" technologies.  Even a seemingly simple
task such as matching person names in a database context is deceptively
complex, and although measures like precision and recall have been used
to evaluate name and record matching, there are methodological issues
to resolve before we can refer to a "standard" evaluation methodology
for this task.  Moreover, it is much less clear how to effectively
evaluate identity matching, resolution, and management systems, or even
what it means to perform an effective identity match, particularly in
the context of data containing identity attributes of varying quality
and in which we have varying degrees of confidence.

 

We have assembled a workshop that will address issues such as:

 

*         Metrics for evaluation of the above-mentioned technologies

*         Resources that can be brought to bear on these tasks

*         Use cases for these technologies and/or discussion of which
evaluation methods are appropriate for different use cases

 

We will also discuss state-of-the-art systems and resources for
performing or evaluating name and record matching, identity resolution,
and identity management.  There will be papers presented and/or
discussions around the following themes:

 

*         Research in name / record matching                      

*         Research in entity disambiguation / resolution /
deconfliction

*         Descriptions of systems or best practices for entity
management

*         Evaluation of record matching, entity disambiguation, or
entity management in different use cases

 

This workshop will be an interactive and dynamic event rather than a
"mini-conference." Presentations  will serve to introduce topics for
discussion and to shape the day.  However, a significant portion of
time will be devoted to interactive exercises, brainstorming, and other
"work" activities.  The workshop has been organized such that all
attendees (including the organizers) will come out better informed
about the problems associated with managing structured data and with
initial ideas on a methodology for evaluating techniques designed to
solve these problems.  In particular, we hope to have made progress
toward an understanding of contextualized and principled evaluation of
identity matching, resolution, and management systems, and to connect a
group of researchers interested in collaborating on this research

 

Organizing Committee:

 

Keith J. Miller (The MITRE Corporation)

Mark Arehart (The MITRE Corporation)

Sherri Condon (The MITRE Corporation)

Jason Duncan (U.S. Department of Defense)

Louise Guthrie (University of Sheffield)

Richard Lutz (The MITRE Corporation)

Massimo Poesio (Universita' di Trento)

 

 

The workshop will be held at LREC 2008 on Saturday, 31 May 2008.

 

Please register at the LREC Conference website:
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/
<blocked::http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/> .

 

 
Dr. Keith J. Miller
The MITRE Corporation
7515 Colshire Drive
Mail Stop H305
McLean, VA 22102
keith at mitre.org <blocked::mailto:keith at mitre.org> 
 
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