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Human-in-the-Loop Entity Linking Visualization and Refinement with KOALA-UI and the Crocodile Framework

Abstract

Entity linking (EL) on tabular data often produces many ambiguous cell annotations that are costly to review. We present KOALA-UI, a lightweight web interface for inspecting and refining EL results on spreadsheets and CSV-like tables. KOALA-UI provides table navigation, cell-level candidate panels, color-coded scores, simple filtering, and in-place edits with export. To enable reuse across backends, KOALA-UI consumes a compact JSON schema and responses compatible with the W3C Entity Reconciliation specification, allowing integration with potentially any EL backend. We illustrate KOALA-UI with the Crocodile EL framework and demonstrate a human-in-the-loop (HITL) workflow. In addition, we report a preliminary user study, a real business use case, and a validation of pipeline execution through TAO–a workflow engine, where Crocodile was integrated as a module.
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Category

Academic chapter

Language

English

Author(s)

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Industry / Metal Production and Processing
  • SINTEF Digital / Sustainable Communication Technologies
  • Romania
  • Kristiania University of Applied Sciences

Year

2026

Publisher

Springer

Book

Management of Digital EcoSystems

ISBN

9783032365460

Page(s)

411 - 424

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