Comparative evaluation of entity resolution approaches with FEVER

Authors: 
Köpcke, Hanna; Thor, Andreas; Rahm, Erhard
Author: 
Köpcke, H
Rahm, E
Thor, A
Year: 
2009
Venue: 
VLDB
Citations: 
15
Citations range: 
10 - 49
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We present FEVER, a new evaluation platform for entity resolution
approaches. The modular structure of the FEVER framework
supports the incorporation or reconstruction of many previously
proposed approaches for entity resolution. A distinctive feature of
FEVER is that it not only evaluates traditional measures such as
precision and recall but also the effort for configuring (e.g., parameter
tuning, training) a good entity resolution approach. FEVER
thus strives for a fair comparative evaluation of different
approaches by considering both the effectiveness and configuration
effort.