This tutorial provides a comprehensive and cohesive overview of the key research results in the area of record linkage methodologies and algorithms for identifying approximate duplicate records, and available tools for this purpose. It encompasses techniques introduced in several communities including databases, information retrieval, statistics and machine learning. It aims to identify similarities and differences across the techniques as well as their merits and limitations.
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Koudas et al. (2006) studied this question.
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