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Constraint-Based Entity Matching

Authors: 
Shen, W; Li, X; Doan, AH
Year: 
2005
Venue: 
Proc. National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Entity matching is the problem of deciding if two given mentions
in the data, such as \"Helen Hunt\" and \"H. M. Hunt\",
refer to the same real-world entity. Numerous solutions have
been developed, but they have not considered in depth the
problem of exploiting integrity constraints that frequently exist
in the domains. Examples of such constraints include \"a
mention with age two cannot match a mention with salary
200K\" and \"if two paper citations match, then their authors
are likely to match in the same order\". In this paper we describe

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