Entity Resolution (ER) is an important real world problem that has attracted significant research interest over the past few years. It deals with determining which object descript...
Zhaoqi Chen, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sharad Mehrotr...
Object identification is a crucial step in most information systems. Nowadays, we have many different ways to identify entities such as surrogates, keys and object identifiers. Ho...
Automatic recognition of named entities such as people, places, organizations, books, and movies across the entire web presents a number of challenges, both of scale and scope. Da...
Casey Whitelaw, Alexander Kehlenbeck, Nemanja Petr...
Entity matching (a.k.a. record linkage) plays a crucial role in integrating multiple data sources, and numerous matching solutions have been developed. However, the solutions have...
Warren Shen, Pedro DeRose, Long Vu, AnHai Doan, Ra...
Privacy and security concerns can prevent sharing of data, derailing data mining projects. Distributed knowledge discovery, if done correctly, can alleviate this problem. The key ...