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EMNLP Findings2024

Advancing Cross-Lingual Entity Alignment with Large Language Models: Tailored Sample Segmentation and Zero-Shot Prompts

Linyan Yang, Jingwei Cheng, Fu Zhang

Abstract

In recent years, the advent of large language models (LLMs) like GPT and Llama has significantly influenced numerous domains, particularly in advancing natural language processing (NLP) capabilities. LLMs have shown remarkable performance in NLP tasks such as relation extraction (RE) and knowledge graph completion (KGC), enhancing activities related to knowledge graphs. As a result, there is a growing interest in integrating LLMs into cross-lingual entity alignment (EA) task, which aims to identify equivalent entities across various knowledge graphs, thereby improving the performance of current baselines. However, employing LLMs for entity alignment poses challenges in efficiently handling largescale data, generating suitable data samples, and adapting prompts for the EA task. To tackle these challenges, we propose Seg-Align, an innovative framework that integrating distance feature extraction, sample Segmentation, and zero-shot prompts. Through extensive experiments on two widely used cross-lingual benchmark datasets, we have not only demonstrated the effectiveness of our proposed sample segmentation algorithm but also highlighted the state-of-the-art performance of Seg-Align.

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  1. Implicit Fine-tuning via Context Engineering: A Curriculum Learning Framework for Multimodal Entity AlignmentYunpeng Hong, Chenyang Bu, Di Wu, Yi He et al.KDD 2026

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  4. Large Language Model Is Not a Good Few-shot Information Extractor, but a Good Reranker for Hard Samples!Yubo Ma, Yixin Cao, Yong Hong, Aixin SunEMNLP Findings 2023 · 125 citations
  5. Neighborhood Matching Network for Entity AlignmentYuting Wu, Xiao Liu, Yansong Feng, Zheng Wang et al.ACL 2020 · 122 citations

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