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Title: 

Duplicate Record Detection: A Survey

Authors: Elmagarmid, Ahmed
Ipeirotis, Panagiotis G.
Verykios, Vassilios
Keywords: entity resolution;duplicate detection;record matching;record linkage;instance identification;deduplication;merge-purge;coreference resolution;database hardening
Issue Date: 6-Sep-2006
Publisher: Stern School of Business, New York University
Series/Report no.: CeDER-06-05
Abstract: Often, in the real world, entities have two or more representations in databases. Duplicate records do not share a common key and/or they contain errors that make duplicate matching a difficult task. Errors are introduced as the result of transcription errors, incomplete information, lack of standard formats or any combination of these factors. In this article, we present a thorough analysis of the literature on duplicate record detection. We cover similarity metrics that are commonly used to detect similar field entries, and we present an extensive set of duplicate detection algorithms that can detect approximately duplicate records in a database. We also cover multiple techniques for improving the efficiency and scalability of approximate duplicate detection algorithms. We conclude with a coverage of existing tools and with a brief discussion of the big open problems in the area.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2451/14760
Appears in Collections:CeDER Working Papers
IOMS: Information Systems Working Papers

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