A comparison of string distance metrics for name-matching tasks

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Abstract

Using an open-source, Java toolkit of name-matching methods, we experimentally compare string distance metrics on the task of matching entity names. We investigate a number of different metrics proposed by different communities, including edit-distance metrics, fast heuristic string comparators , token-based distance metrics, and hybrid methods. Overall, the best-performing method is a hybrid scheme combining a TFIDF weighting scheme, which is widely used in information retrieval, with ...

@misc{citeulike:2146898, abstract = {Using an open-source, Java toolkit of name-matching methods, we experimentally compare string distance metrics on the task of matching entity names. We investigate a number of different metrics proposed by different communities, including edit-distance metrics, fast heuristic string comparators , token-based distance metrics, and hybrid methods. Overall, the best-performing method is a hybrid scheme combining a TFIDF weighting scheme, which is widely used in information retrieval, with ...}, author = {Cohen, W. and Ravikumar, P. and Fienberg, S. }, citeulike-article-id = {2146898}, keywords = {comparison, distance, metric, softtfidf, software, string}, posted-at = {2007-12-19 15:02:58}, priority = {5}, title = {A comparison of string distance metrics for name-matching tasks}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/581084.html}, year = {2003} }

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TY - GEN ID - citeulike:2146898 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2146898 TI - A comparison of string distance metrics for name-matching tasks N2 - Using an open-source, Java toolkit of name-matching methods, we experimentally compare string distance metrics on the task of matching entity names. We investigate a number of different metrics proposed by different communities, including edit-distance metrics, fast heuristic string comparators , token-based distance metrics, and hybrid methods. Overall, the best-performing method is a hybrid scheme combining a TFIDF weighting scheme, which is widely used in information retrieval, with ... KW - comparison KW - distance KW - metric KW - softtfidf KW - software KW - string AU - Cohen, W AU - Ravikumar, P AU - Fienberg, S PY - 2003/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/581084.html ER -

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