Record Linkage Methodology and Applications

Abstract

As information technology advances rapidly and Internet blooms, alot of business tends to electronization and globalization. Individualsand organizations have more channels or methods to expose informationand gather information. The result is that individuals and organizationsface the increasing challenges to process the large volumes of dataand find the relevant quality information to fit their specific businessneeds. In addition, the data gathered from multiple resources usuallycontains errors and duplicate information. There is a strong needto detect duplicates and remove them in data preparation phase beforeperforming advanced data mining [1, 2, 3, 4]. In other cases, datagathered from one data source is not enough to provide a completeview about a person or entity. Therefore, data needs to be linkedor integrated together to provide a single complete view about aperson, a product, a object, a geographical area or any entity tomeet a specific business application need [5, 6].