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Publications

Books

Entity Resolution in the Web of Data

V. Christophides, V. Efthymiou, K. Stefanidis. Synthesis Lectures on The Semantic Web: Theory and Technology, Morgan and Claypool, August 2015.
[print & e-book versions] [institutional access]

Journal Papers

Parallel Meta-blocking for Scaling Entity Resolution over Big Heterogeneous Data

V. Efthymiou, G. Papadakis, G. Papastefanatos, K. Stefanidis, T. Palpanas. Information Systems 65: 137-157 (2017)
[paper] [source code and datasets]

Benchmarking Blocking Algorithms for Web Entities

V. Efthymiou, K. Stefanidis, V. Christophides. IEEE Transactions on Big Data.
[paper] [datasets (D1-D6, airports, airlines, twitter, books, iati, www2012)] [source code]

Conference Papers

MinoanER: Schema-Agnostic, Non-Iterative, Massively Parallel Resolution of Web Entities

V. Efthymiou, G. Papadakis, K. Stefanidis, V. Christophides. 22nd International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2019.
[paper]

Minoan ER: Progressive Entity Resolution in the Web of Data

V. Efthymiou, K. Stefanidis, V. Christophides. 19th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2016.
[paper]

Big Data Entity Resolution: From Highly to Somehow Similar Entity Descriptions in the Web

V. Efthymiou, K. Stefanidis, V. Christophides. 3rd IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2015.
[paper] [datasets (D1-D6, airports, airlines, twitter, books, iati, www2012)] [source code]

Parallel Meta-blocking: Realizing Scalable Entity Resolution over Large, Heterogeneous Data

V. Efthymiou, G. Papadakis, G. Papastefanatos, K. Stefanidis, T. Palpanas. 3rd IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2015.
[paper] [datasets] [source code]

WebER: Resolving Entities in the Web

V. Christophides, K. Stefanidis, V. Efthymiou. European Data Forum, 2015.
[poster]

Tutorials

Web-scale Blocking, Iterative and Progressive Entity Resolution

K. Stefanidis, V. Christophides, V. Efthymiou. 33rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2017.
[pdf] [slides]

Improving Quality and Scalability in Semantic Data Management

V. Christophides, O. Corcho, V. Efthymiou, V. Ermolayev, A. Harth, L.D. Ibáñez, N. Keberle, K. Stefanidis, I. Tachmazidis. 13th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 2016.
[short description and slides]

Entity Resolution in the Web of Data

K. Stefanidis, V. Efthymiou, M. Herschel, V. Christophides. 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2014.
[pdf] [slides (part I), slides (part II)] [website]

Entity Resolution in the Web of Data

K. Stefanidis, V. Efthymiou, M. Herschel, V. Christophides. 22nd International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2013.
[slides (part I), slides (part II)] [website]



We would like to acknowledge our many collaborators who have influenced our thoughts and our understanding of this research area over the years, and the following projects for their support in our research efforts: EU FP7-ICT-2011-9 DIACHRON (Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web), EU FP7-PEOPLE- 2013-IRSES SemData (Semantic Data Management), EU FP7-ICT-318552 IdeaGarden (An Interactive Learning Environment Fostering Creativity), and LoDGoV (Generate, Manage, Preserve, Share, and Protect Resources in the Web of Data) of the Research Programme ARISTEIA (EXCELLENCE), GSRT, Ministry of Education, Greece, and the European Regional Development Fund. Finally, we would like to thank the ~okeanos GRNET cloud service.

News

October 2016: Our paper "Benchmarking Blocking Algorithms for Web Entities" was accepted at the IEEE Transactions on Big Data journal.

March 2016: Our paper "Minoan ER: Progressive Entity Resolution in the Web of Data" was presented at EDBT 2016 @ Bordeux, France (March 15-18, 2016).

September 2015: Our papers "Big Data Entity Resolution: From Highly to Somehow Similar Entity Descriptions in the Web" and "Parallel Meta-blocking: Realizing Scalable Entity Resolution over Large, Heterogeneous Data" were accepted at IEEE Big Data Conference @ Santa Clara, CA (Oct 29- Nov 1, 2015).

August 2015: Our book "Entity Resolution in the Web of Data", got published by Morgan&Claypool. You can find it here.

July 2015: Our poster "WebER: Resolving Entities in the Web", was accepted at the European Data Forum @ Luxembourg (Nov 16-17, 2015).