2020/09/30 by Danhyang Lee, Lee, Danhyang, Li‐Chun Zhang +3
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Advanced Database Systems and Queries #Data Mining Algorithms and Applications #Data Quality and Management #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Methodology (stat.ME)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2009.14797
openalex publication_date 2020/09/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
By record linkage one joins records residing in separate files which are believed to be related to the same entity. In this paper we approach record linkage as a classification problem, and adapt the maximum entropy classification method in text mining to record linkage, both in the supervised and unsupervised settings of machine learning. The set of links will be chosen according to the associated uncertainty. On the one hand, our framework overcomes some persistent theoretical flaws of the classical approach pioneered by Fellegi and Sunter (1969); on the other hand, the proposed algorithm is scalable and fully automatic, unlike the classical approach that generally requires clerical review to resolve the undecided cases.