Title
Semantic blocking for Record Linkage
Abstract
Record Linkage (RL) is an important component of data cleaning and integration and data processing in general. For years, many efforts have focused on improving the performance of the RL process, either by reducing the number of record comparisons or reducing the number of attribute comparisons, which reduces the computational time, but increases the amount of error. However, the real bottleneck of RL is the post-process, where the results have to be reviewed by experts that decide which pairs or groups of records are real links and which are false hits. In this paper we show that exploiting the semantic relationships (e.g. foreign key), established between one or more data sources, makes it possible to find a new sort of semantic blocking method that improves the number of hits and reduces the amount of review effort.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2007
CCIA
foreign key,rl process,real link,false hit,real bottleneck,computational time,attribute comparison,semantic relationship,record linkage,data source,data integration,data cleansing,data processing
Field
DocType
Volume
Data integration,Data mining,Bottleneck,Record linkage,Data cleansing,Data processing,Information retrieval,Computer science,sort,Foreign key,Semantic information
Conference
163
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0922-6389
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jordi Nin131126.53
Victor Muntes-Mulero2384.06
Norbert Martínez-Bazan31065.55
Josep-Lluis Larriba-Pey4513.37