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In this paper, we explore how Knowledge Graphs (KGs) can potentially benefit Record Linkage (RL). RL is the process of identifying and resolving duplicate records across different data sources, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data (e.g., in data lakes). RL is a critical task for information systems that rely on data to make decisions and is used in a wide variety of fields such as healthcare, finance, government and marketing. Due to recent advances in machine learning, there has been a significant progress in building automated RL methods. However, when dealing with vertical applications, featuring specialized domains such as a particular hospital or industry, human experts are still required to enter domain-specific knowledge, making RL prohibitively expensive. Despite KGs can be powerful tools to represent and derive domain-specific knowledge, their application to RL has been overlooked. Inspired by a healthcare case study in the Republic of Cyprus, we aim at filling this gap by identifying challenges and opportunities of using KGs to reduce the effort of solving RL in vertical applications.
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This work was partly supported by the SEED PNR 2021 grant FLOWER, Sapienza Research Project B83C22007180001, the European Union Next-Generation EU (PIANO NAZIONALE DI RIPRESA E RESILIENZA (PNRR) – MISSIONE 4 COMPONENTE 2 initiative “Future Artificial Intelligence Research” – FAIR and the Horizon 2020 project 857420 DESTINI. Jerin George Mathew is financed by the Italian National PhD Program in AI.
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Andreou, A.S., Firmani, D., Mathew, J.G., Mecella, M., Pingos, M. (2023). Using Knowledge Graphs for Record Linkage: Challenges and Opportunities. In: Ruiz, M., Soffer, P. (eds) Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops. CAiSE 2023. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 482. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34985-0_15
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