
368 Analyzing and Securing Social Networks
crosses. The EBD value for this example consequently will be lower than the EBD for the
rst example because H(C|T) will be a lower value.
Problems of the n-gram approach for instance matching: Despite the utility of the aforemen-
tioned method, it is susceptible to misleading results. For example, if an attribute named
City associated with a concept from O
1
is compared against an attribute named ctyName
associated with a concept from O
2
, the attribute values for both concepts might consist
of city names from different parts of the world. City might contain the names of North
American cities, all of which ...