Duplicate Record Detection: A Survey Export

@article{citeulike:1116298, abstract = {Often, in the real world, entities have two or more representations in databases. Duplicate records do not share a common key and/or they contain errors that make duplicate matching a difficult task. Errors are introduced as the result of transcription errors, incomplete information, lack of standard formats, or any combination of these factors. In this paper, we present a thorough analysis of the literature on duplicate record detection. We cover similarity metrics that are commonly used to detect similar field entries, and we present an extensive set of duplicate detection algorithms that can detect approximately duplicate records in a database. We also cover multiple techniques for improving the efficiency and scalability of approximate duplicate detection algorithms. We conclude with coverage of existing tools and with a brief discussion of the big open problems in the area}, author = {Elmagarmid, A. K. and Ipeirotis, P. G. and Verykios, V. S.}, citeulike-article-id = {1116298}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4016511}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ake/pub/survey2.pdf}, journal = {Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on}, keywords = {duplicate, entity, linkage, matching}, number = {1}, pages = {1--16}, posted-at = {2008-02-06 12:37:40}, priority = {5}, title = {Duplicate Record Detection: A Survey}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4016511}, volume = {19}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1116298 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1116298 N2 - Often, in the real world, entities have two or more representations in databases. Duplicate records do not share a common key and/or they contain errors that make duplicate matching a difficult task. Errors are introduced as the result of transcription errors, incomplete information, lack of standard formats, or any combination of these factors. In this paper, we present a thorough analysis of the literature on duplicate record detection. We cover similarity metrics that are commonly used to detect similar field entries, and we present an extensive set of duplicate detection algorithms that can detect approximately duplicate records in a database. We also cover multiple techniques for improving the efficiency and scalability of approximate duplicate detection algorithms. We conclude with coverage of existing tools and with a brief discussion of the big open problems in the area IS - 1 JF - Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on EP - 16 TI - Duplicate Record Detection: A Survey VL - 19 SP - 1 KW - duplicate KW - entity KW - linkage KW - matching AU - Elmagarmid, AK AU - Ipeirotis, PG AU - Verykios, VS PY - 2007/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4016511 ER -