1962 RecordLinkage
- (Newcombe and Kennedy, 1962) ⇒ Howard B. Newcombe, James M. Kennedy. (1962). “Record Linkage: Making maximum use of the discriminating power of identifying information.” In: Communications of the ACM, 5(11). doi:10.1145/368996.369026
Subject Headings: Entity Record Deduplication Task, Entity Record Deduplication Algorithm.
Notes
- It extends the work in (Newcombe et al., 1959)
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Abstract
Special difficulties are encountered in devising reliable systems for searching and updating any large files of documents that must be identified primarily on the basis of names and other personal particulars. The underlying problem is that of making nearly maximum use of items of identifying information that are individually unreliable but that may collectively be of considerable discriminating power. Rules that can be applied generally to name retrieval systems have been developed In a methodological study of the linkage of vital and health records into family groupings for demographic research purposes. These rules are described, and the ways in which information utilization for matching may be optimized are discussed.
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| Author | volume | Date Value | title | type | journal | titleUrl | doi | note | year | |
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| 1962 RecordLinkage | Howard B. Newcombe James M. Kennedy | Record Linkage: Making maximum use of the discriminating power of identifying information | Communications of the ACM | 10.1145/368996.369026 | 1962 |