Matching person names through name transformation

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1875-1878

  Gong, Jun ^a   Wang, Lidan ^b   Oard, Douglas W ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Name matching; String distance metrics; String similarity

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; DATA SETS; DECISION RULES; DISTANCE METRICS; INDEXING SYSTEMS; NAME MATCHING; NAMED ENTITIES; SIMILARITY FUNCTIONS; SPELLING ERRORS; STRING MATCHING; STRING SIMILARITY;

INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 74549171483     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1645953.1646253     Document Type: Conference Paper

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