Instance matching strategy
Purpose
To create a record matching strategy that steadily improves the accuracy of instance matching.
Matching Strategy
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Refinements
Data normalization
“Data coherence” where the resolution of multiple variant strings with the same meaning are reduced to a single equivalent standardized string.
Example 1: Vol. and v. and volume have the same meaning. As a result, for the sake of coherence, we can distill all three strings down to one string, “Volume”.
Example 2: Large print.
Example 3:
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