Mis-categorized entities detection

• Published in: The VLDB journal 2021-07, Vol.30 (4), p.515-536
• Main Authors: Hao, Shuang, Tang, Nan, Li, Guoliang, Feng, Jianhua, Wang, Ning
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Chemical partition; Computer Science; Database Management; Regular Paper; Scientific papers
• ISSN: 1066-8888; 0949-877X
• DOI: 10.1007/s00778-021-00653-w

Entity categorization, the process of categorizing entities into groups, is an important problem with many applications. However, in practice, many entities are mis-categorized, such as Google Scholar and Amazon products. In this paper, we study the problem of discovering mis-categorized entities from a given group of categorized entities. This problem is inherently hard: All entities within the same group have been “well” categorized by the state-of-the-art solutions. Apparently, it is nontrivial to differentiate them. We propose a novel rule-based framework to solve this problem. It first uses positive rules to compute disjoint partitions of entities, where the partition with the largest size is taken as the correctly categorized partition, namely the pivot partition . It then uses negative rules to identify mis-categorized entities in other partitions that are dissimilar to the entities in the pivot partition. We describe optimizations on applying these rules and discuss how to generate positive/negative rules. In addition, we propose novel strategies to resolve inconsistent rules. Extensive experimental results on real-world datasets show the effectiveness of our solution.