A Survey on Blocking Technology of Entity Resolution

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 35 Số 4 - Trang 769-793 - 2020
Bohan Li1, Yi Liu2, An-Man Zhang2, Wenhuan Wang2, Shuo Wan2
1College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, China
2College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China

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