This chapter provides an overview of the data matching process, and describes the five
major steps involved in this process: data pre-processing (cleaning and standardisation) …

The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest publicly
accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover useful information or …

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(57) ABSTRACT A first set of original records is processed by a first processing entity to
generate a second set of records that includes the original records and one or more copies …

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In entity resolution, blocking pre-partitions data for further processing by more expensive
methods. Two entity mentions are in the same block if they share identical or related …

Entity resolution is an important data association task when fusing information from multiple
sources. Oftentimes the information arrives continuously and the entity resolution algorithm …

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Entity resolution is the process of matching records that refer to the same entities from one or
several databases in situations where the records to be matched do not include unique …