%0 Conference Paper %1 Cohen2003 %A Cohen, William W. %A Ravikumar, Pradeep %A Fienberg, Stephen E. %B Proceedings of IJCAI-03 Workshop on Information Integration %D 2003 %K ir visual-information-seeking %P 73--78 %T A Comparison of String Distance Metrics for Name-Matching Tasks. %X Using an open-source, Java toolkit of name-matching methods, we experimentally compare string distance metrics on the task of matching entity names. We investigate a number of different metrics proposed by different communities, including edit-distance metrics, fast heuristic string comparators , token-based distance metrics, and hybrid methods. Overall, the best-performing method is a hybrid scheme combining a TFIDF weighting scheme, which is widely used in information retrieval, with the Jaro-Winkler string-distance scheme, which was developed in the probabilistic record linkage community.

@inproceedings{Cohen2003, abstract = {Using an open-source, Java toolkit of name-matching methods, we experimentally compare string distance metrics on the task of matching entity names. We investigate a number of different metrics proposed by different communities, including edit-distance metrics, fast heuristic string comparators , token-based distance metrics, and hybrid methods. Overall, the best-performing method is a hybrid scheme combining a TFIDF weighting scheme, which is widely used in information retrieval, with the Jaro-Winkler string-distance scheme, which was developed in the probabilistic record linkage community.}, added-at = {2009-03-12T15:42:50.000+0100}, author = {Cohen, William W. and Ravikumar, Pradeep and Fienberg, Stephen E.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/23bb9c395b0e75b41b95947ca73b897f8/lillejul}, booktitle = {Proceedings of IJCAI-03 Workshop on Information Integration}, citeulike-article-id = {1467939}, interhash = {b918a22c0ac156bcd7114e8361377773}, intrahash = {3bb9c395b0e75b41b95947ca73b897f8}, keywords = {ir visual-information-seeking}, month = {August}, pages = {73--78}, posted-at = {2007-07-19 22:34:55}, priority = {0}, timestamp = {2009-03-12T15:42:53.000+0100}, title = {A Comparison of String Distance Metrics for Name-Matching Tasks.}, year = 2003 }