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Akhil Arora

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Despite the importance and pervasiveness of Wikipedia as one of the largest platforms for open knowledge, surprisingly little is known about how people navigate its content when seeking information. To bridge this gap, we present the first systematic large ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

Quote Erat Demonstrandum: AWeb Interface for Exploring the Quotebank Corpus

Robert West, Akhil Arora, Andreas Oliver Spitz, Huan-Cheng Chang, Vuk Vukovic

The use of attributed quotes is the most direct and least filtered pathway of information propagation in news. Consequently, quotes play a central role in the conception, reception, and analysis of news stories. Since quotes provide a more direct window in ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

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Every day millions of people read Wikipedia. When navigating the vast space of available topics using hyperlinks, readers describe trajectories on the article network. Understanding these navigation patterns is crucial to better serve readers' needs and ad ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

Strong Heuristics for Named Entity Linking

Robert West, Akhil Arora, Marko Culjak, Andreas Oliver Spitz

Named entity linking (NEL) in news is a challenging endeavour due to the frequency of unseen and emerging entities, which necessitates the use of unsupervised or zero-shot methods. However, such methods tend to come with caveats, such as no integration of ...

ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL2022

A Critical Re-evaluation of Neural Methods for Entity Alignment

Robert West, Akhil Arora, Manuel Leone, Alberto Garcia Duran, Stefano Huber

Neural methods have become the de-facto choice for the vast majority of data analysis tasks, and entity alignment (EA) is no exception. Not surprisingly, more than 50 different neural EA methods have been published since 2017. However, surprisingly, an ana ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

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Entity linking is an important problem with many applications. Most previous solutions were designed for settings where annotated training data is available, which is, however, not the case in numerous domains. We propose a light-weight and scalable entity ...

ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL2021

GRADES-NDA 2019: Joint International Workshop on Graph Data Management Experiences & Systems and Network Data Analytics

Akhil Arora, Arnab Bhattacharya

GRADES-NDA 2019 is the second joint meeting of the GRADES and NDA workshops, which were each independently organized at previous SIGMOD-PODS meetings, GRADES since 2013 and NDA since 2016. The focus of GRADES-NDA is the application areas, usage scenarios, ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

RAQ: Relationship-Aware Graph Querying in Large Networks

Akhil Arora, Arnab Bhattacharya

The phenomenal growth of graph data from a wide variety of real-world applications has rendered graph querying to be a problem of paramount importance. Traditional techniques use structural as well as node similarities to find matches of a given query grap ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

HD-Index: Pushing the Scalability-Accuracy Boundary for Approximate kNN Search in High-Dimensional Spaces

Akhil Arora, Arnab Bhattacharya, Piyush Kumar

Nearest neighbor searching of large databases in high-dimensional spaces is inherently difficult due to the curse of dimensionality. A flavor of approximation is, therefore, necessary to practically solve the problem of nearest neighbor search. In this pap ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

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