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Record linkage is the task of finding record(s) in a (or more) dataset(s) that refer to the same entity.

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Machine learning model for matching records

I have an example, where I want to automate matching up records in two datasets. I'm wondering what kind of machine learning model would potentially be able to deal with this kind of issue. I'm ...
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Modeling Temporal-Interval Distance

I'm trying to define a model for comparing temporal intervals, and can't find an appropriate distance function that incorporates the different relations two temporal intervals might have, e.g. overlap,...
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Confidence Intervals of the Positive Predictive Value: Adjusting my Bootstrap

I have two data sets, A and B, and I have linked them together using automatic, probabilistic methods to create a set of linked records (L). For example, my code could have predicted that record 1 in ...
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Referring multiple names to the same entity

I am working on the models of different product types and wish to generalize them to the same entity. For example, from the given list ...
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How to evaluate the performance of a predictor on an unlabelled dataset? What is an appropriate test set size and how to sample it?

I am working on a project with goal to deduplicate a customer database. We don't have any annotations (no training/test set with the ground truth values). We implemented multiple unsupervised ...
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Deep Learning approaches for Record Linkage

Record linkage (RL) is the task of finding records in a data set that refer to the same entity across different data sources (e.g., data files, books, websites, and databases). Record linkage is ...
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i.i.d. assumption for pairwise data generated from clusters

In the context of record linkage, data de-duplication, or entity resolution, we attempt to merge entities that refer to the same thing into a single object. The obvious example is an address database ...
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how can I train the model to predict duplicate records in machine learning?

I have the adjustment data in telecom domain: There are problems that sometimes the automation script generates the bill twice which causes duplicate records. I want to know how to prepare the data ...
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Learn a mapping between two datasets using Neural Network

I have two matrices $A_1$ of size $N\times K$ and $A_2$ of size $M\times K$ which contain data and every row has a corresponding label $y \in {1, 2, 3}$. I want to learn a mapping between those two ...
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Privacy preserved record linkage

What is the best way for privacy preserved record linkage in data mining. I am final year university student. My thesis topic is related to data mining. I am working with data and I need to privacy ...
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Machine learning matching methods?

My goal is match each of the invoices created to each payment made. So for example, if I have a set of invoices: ...
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Is there a valid way to merge sampled/panel data with exhaustive usage data?

We have an existing study of media consumption which is online and offline. Online study: To measure consumption online, we use log data from web accesses and various other sources. We have reliable ...
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Linkage of large datasets

Let me set the scene I have two data sources, one is 16e6 rows of data, the other is 160k rows of data. Each of these have text string identifiers [e.g. some allegory of 'name', 'address', 'postcode']....
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Popular named entity resolution software

I am working on a project and need to extract persons' names from a large amount of documents. This task should belong to the named entity resolution problem. What are currently some of the most ...
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Explanation of Algorithm within EpiLink

I'm working on doing some record linkage and have come across two choices for weighting and classifying pairs of entries. One being EpiLink proposed by P. Contiero et al. in "The EpiLink record ...
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Record linkage when sources have different fields

I have read a little about record linkage, but it seems to me that a requirement is that all fields in both sources can be compared. For example, with sources A and B, an assumption is that we can ...
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State-of-the-art in deduplication

What are the state-of-the-art methods in record deduplication? Deduplication is also sometimes called: record linkage, entity resolution, identity resolution, merge/purge. I know for example about ...
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Generating M/U Probabilities in Fellegi-Sunter Record Linkage

I'm working on merging records from several databases that cover the same entities, but share no reliably deterministic fields, leaving us with fields such as name and address to resolve identity. In ...
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Fuzzy Record Linkage of Spatial Datasets

I have two datasets describing real-estate properties Dataset 1 describes building characteristics; it includes the location of the entrance to the building along with building descriptions and ...
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Record linkage: Weighting matches by estimate of match quality

This question is somewhat of a continuation from an earlier posting: Using EM algorithm for record linking I have two data sets of individual some of whom are in both but a prior it is not know which ...
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Using EM algorithm for record linking

I am interested in linking records across 2 datasets by first name, last name, and birth year. Might this be doable with the EM algorithm, and if so, how? Consider the following record in the 1st as ...
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