Technical Perspective:: Toward Building Entity Matching Management Systems

Entity matching (EM) has been a long-standing challenge in data management. Most current EM works focus only on developing matching algorithms. We argue that far more efforts should be devoted to building EM systems. We discuss the limitations of ...

The challenge of entity matching is that of identifying when different data items (often referred to as records or mentions) refer to the same real-life entity. Popular instantiations of this problem include deduplication, where the items are database ...