Entity resolution (ER) identifies database records that refer to the same real world entity. In practice, ER is not a one-time process, but is constantly improved as the data, sc...
Entity Resolution (ER) is the problem of identifying which records in a database refer to the same real-world entity. An exhaustive ER process involves computing the similarities b...
Steven Euijong Whang, David Menestrina, Georgia Ko...
Abstract— As the Web has evolved into a data-rich repository, with the standard “page view,” current search engines are becoming increasingly inadequate. To realize data-awar...
In bibliographies like DBLP and Citeseer, there are three kinds of entity-name problems that need to be solved. First, multiple entities share one name, which is called the name sh...
— As person names are non-unique, the same name on different Web pages might or might not refer to the same real-world person. This entity identification problem is one of the m...