Adaptive name matching in information integration

Authors: 
Bilenko, M; Mooney, R; Cohen, W; P Ravikumar, S
Author: 
Bilenko, M
Mooney, R
Cohen, W
P Ravikumar, S
Year: 
2003
Venue: 
Intelligent Systems
URL: 
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1234765
Citations: 
339
Citations range: 
100 - 499

Identifying approximately duplicate database records that refer to the same entity is essential for information integration. The authors compare and describe methods for combining and learning textual similarity measures for name matching.