A generic Web-based entity resolution framework

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 919-932

  Pereira, Denilson Alves ^a   Ribeiro Neto, Berthier ^b,c   Ziviani, Nivio ^b   Laender, Alberto H F ^b   Gonaçalves, Marcos André ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c Google Inc   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERIC FRAMEWORKS; GENERIC WEB; MULTIPLE SOURCE; NAME RESOLUTION; REAL-WORLD ENTITIES; WEB DATA;

DATA STRUCTURES;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 79953885698     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21518     Document Type: Article

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