We solve the problem of record linkage between databases where record fields are mixed and permuted in different ways. The solution method uses a conditional random fields model...
Record linkage is the process of determining that two records refer to the same entity. A key subprocess is evaluating how well the individual fields, or attributes, of the recor...
Steven Minton, Claude Nanjo, Craig A. Knoblock, Ma...
In this paper, we present a new record linkage approach that uses entity behavior to decide if potentially different entities are in fact the same. An entity’s behavior is extra...
Mohamed Yakout, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Hazem Elmelee...
Record linkage is an important data integration task that has many practical uses for matching, merging and duplicate removal in large and diverse databases. However, a quadratic ...
Timothy de Vries, Hui Ke, Sanjay Chawla, Peter Chr...
The task of matching co-referent records is known among other names as record linkage. For large record-linkage problems, often there is little or no labeled data available, but u...