Towards automated record linkage

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 61, Issue , 2006, Pages 23-31

  Goiser, Karl ^a   Christen, Peter ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; DATA SETS; FARTHESTFIRST; HIGH QUALITY; HUMAN INTERVENTION; NON-TRIVIAL; RECORD LINKAGE;

DATA MINING;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 65449179112     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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