Multilingual Entity Matching
12 Pages Posted: 8 Jan 2019 Last revised: 13 Jul 2020
Date Written: December 25, 2018
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to explore methods of multilingual entity matching. Name matching is currently the main technique used for entity resolution. When dealing with entities having features recorded in different languages and with different alphabets the basic approaches have serious limitation. The basic name matching approach using string comparison metrics is enriched with phonetic rules and with relational information. The results show that the approach using transliteration enhanced by phonetic matching provides with the best performance.
Keywords: entity resolution, multilingual entity matching, transliteration
JEL Classification: C80
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