2009 GenericEntityResolutionWithNevRules

• (Whang et al., 2009) ⇒ Steven Euijong Whang, Omar Benjelloun, Hector Garcia-Molina. (2009). “Generic Entity Resolution with Negative Rules.” The VLDB Journal doi:10.1007/s00778-009-0136-3

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• Keywords Generic entity resolution - Inconsistency - Negative rule - Data cleaning

Abstract

• Entity resolution (ER) (also known as deduplication or merge-purge) is a process of identifying records that refer to the same real-world entity and merging them together. In practice, ER results may contain “inconsistencies,” either due to mistakes by the match and merge function writers or changes in the application semantics. To remove the inconsistencies, we introduce “negative rules” that disallow inconsistencies in the ER solution (ER-N). A consistent solution is then derived based on the guidance from a domain expert. The inconsistencies can be resolved in several ways, leading to accurate solutions. We formalize ER-N, treating the match, merge, and negative rules as black boxes, which permits expressive and extensible ER-N solutions. We identify important properties for the rules that, if satisfied, enable less costly ER-N. We develop and evaluate two algorithms that find an ER-N solution based on guidance from the domain expert: the GNR algorithm that does not assume the properties and the ENR algorithm that exploits the properties.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2009 GenericEntityResolutionWithNevRules	Omar Benjelloun Hector Garcia-Molina Steven Euijong Whang			Generic Entity Resolution with Negative Rules				10.1007/s00778-009-0136-3