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Pairing Made Easy: A Sentence Embeddings Deep Dive

Hey there, data wranglers! If you’ve ever wrestled with messy, duplicated data, then you know entity resolution (ER) is your trusty sidekick. Buckle up, because today we’re diving deep into the world of sentence embeddings and how this nifty technique can supercharge your pairing game in entity resolution. If pairing sounds like a new dance craze to you, pump the brakes and check out our beginner-friendly introduction to pairing first....

October 10, 2024 · 12 min · Paul Kinsvater
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A Beginner's Guide to BERT for Entity Resolution

BERT, or Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, quickly proved its worth and took the entity resolution community by storm. If BERT is new to you, picture it as ChatGPT’s older, brainy cousin. BERT is like the translator, converting text into numbers that computers understand. Meanwhile, ChatGPT is the storyteller, using those numbers to generate fresh text – that’s the magic behind generative AI. What’s the Big Deal with BERT? The original base version of BERT is a deep learning architecture consisting of 110 million parameters....

September 22, 2024 · 6 min · Paul Kinsvater