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New Book:
Data Matching - Concepts and Techniques for Record Linkage, Entity Resolution, and Duplicate Detection
by Peter Christen
Springer, Data-Centric Systems and Applications series
Hardcover, August 2012
274 pages, 66 illustrations.
ISBN 978-3-642-31163-5
This book brings together research from various areas like databases, statistics, information retrieval, data mining, and machine learning.
It details the data matching process step by step.
It includes an overview of freely available data matching systems and a detailed discussion of practical aspects and limitations.
William E. Winkler, Principal researcher at the US Census Bureau,
Washington DC., said:
"The book is very well organized and exceptionally well written. Because of the depth, amount, and quality of the material that is covered, I would expect this book to be one of the standard references in future years."
Further details are available at:
cs.anu.edu.au/people/Peter.Christen/data-matching-book-2012.html
The preface, table of contents, and references are freely available for download from this Web page.