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Principles of Data Integration
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Principles of Data Integration

by AnHai Doan, Alon Halevy, Zachary Ives
June 2012
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
15h 43m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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String Matching

String matching is the problem of finding strings that refer to the same real-world entity. For example, the string David Smith in one database may refer to the same person as David R. Smith in another database. Similarly, the strings 1210 W. Dayton St, Madison WI and 1210 West Dayton, Madison WI 53706 refer to the same physical address.

String matching plays a critical role in many data integration tasks, including schema matching, data matching, and information extraction. Consequently, in this chapter we examine this problem in depth. Section 4.1 defines the string matching problem. Section 4.2 describes popular similarity measures that can be used to compute a similarity score between any two given strings. Finally, Section ...

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ISBN: 9780124160446