Name-Ethnicity Classification and Ethnicity-Sensitive Name Matching

Proceedings of the 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1141-1147

  Treeratpituk, Pucktada ^a   Lee Giles, C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DATA-SOURCE; MATCHING TECHNIQUES; MATCHINGS; MULTIPLE SOURCE; NAME MATCHING; NAMING SYSTEMS; NEWS ARTICLES; PATIENT RECORD; PERSONAL NAMES; SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTS;

STRING SEARCHING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 85135803190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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