NADEEF/ER

Ahmed Elmagarmid, Ihab F. Ilyas, Mourad Ouzzani, Jorge-Arnulfo Quiané-Ruiz, Nan Tang, Si Yin
2014 Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data - SIGMOD '14  
Entity resolution (ER), the process of identifying and eventually merging records that refer to the same real-world entities, is an important and long-standing problem. We present Nadeef/Er, a generic and interactive entity resolution system, which is built as an extension over our open-source generalized data cleaning system Nadeef. Nadeef/Er provides a rich programming interface for manipulating entities, which allows generic, e cient and extensible ER. In this demo, users will have the
more » ... unity to experience the following features: (1) Easy specification -Users can easily define ER rules with a browser-based specification, which will then be automatically transformed to various functions, treated as black-boxes by Nadeef; (2) Generality and extensibility -Users can customize their ER rules by refining and fine-tuning the above functions to achieve both e↵ective and e cient ER solutions; (3) Interactivity -We also extended the existing Nadeef dashboard with summarization and clustering techniques to facilitate understanding problems faced by the ER process as well as to allow users to influence resolution decisions.
doi:10.1145/2588555.2594511 dblp:conf/sigmod/ElmagarmidIOQ0Y14 fatcat:isxtkb3k65gydpugbqpfdclssq