Abstract The growth of Big Data, especially personal data dispersed in multiple data
sources, presents enormous opportunities and insights for businesses to explore and …

Sensitive personal data are created in many application domains, and there is now an
increasing demand to share, integrate, and link such data within and across organisations in …

Entity resolution (ER) is the process of linking records that refer to the same entity.
Traditionally, this process compares attribute values of records to calculate similarities and …

For select domains and datasets, duplicates may be, in part or in whole, instances of
cheating. We may specifically observe this for Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN) that …

Entity resolution is the process of identifying records in one or multiple data sources that
represent the same real-world entity. This process needs to deal with noisy data that contain …

A considerable amount of useful information on the web is (semi-) structured, such as tables
and lists. An extensive corpus of prior work addresses the problem of making these human …

Temporal record linkage is the process of identifying groups of records that are collected
over a period of time, such as in census or voter registration databases, where records in the …

How do we ensure a statewide voter registration database's accuracy and integrity,
especially when the database depends on aggregating decentralized, sub-state data with …

Record linkage (RL) is the process of identifying matching records from different databases
that refer to the same entity. It is common that the attribute values of records that belong to …

This report describes the process involved in accessing, processing, and merging a set of
files containing voter registration information from the US state of North Carolina (NC). We …