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Hi Bahare,

Very nice job. I also read the two papers, and I think you really made the two clear and easy to understand.

I like the two papers that you used, one focus on records, another focus on attributes, and this is also what I am thinking. Based on different conditions, as you mentioned in your page, different solutions should be adopted. For example, for records with same data structure, we can consider to deal it from attributes, while if not, we must use other ways, like trail matching or like iterative or sequential ways to predict the relationships between records.

How do you think the difference between record linkage and identity uncertainty? Do you think actually they are the same task or there is a little slice different? I think you must have seen “record linkage” many times when you are doing this.

Hi Dandan,

Thanks for reading. It was my first try to go through the identity uncertainty field. It seems like the identity uncertainty and record linkage are the same. The only different that might be is that: in record linkage some knowledge of databases may be used, which I have not seen any in the two papers that I wrote. How do you think?

Cheers,

Bahare

I think the the identity uncertainty is like the core problem in record linkage, as you said, it does not only need to solve the problem of uncertainty, but also need to consider about others like efficiency accuracy and also error handling.