String similarity search and join are two important operations in data cleaning and
integration, which extend traditional exact search and exact join operations in databases by …

This chapter provides an overview of the data matching process, and describes the five
major steps involved in this process: data pre-processing (cleaning and standardisation) …

The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest publicly
accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover useful information or …

Finding and matching personal names is at the core of an increasing number of
applications: from text and Web mining, search engines, to information extraction …

Abstract Motivation The NCBI's Sequence Read Archive (SRA) promises great biological
insight if one could analyze the data in the aggregate; however, the data remain largely …

While the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) plays a vital role in ensuring correct executions of
Java applications, testing JVMs via generating and running class files on them can be rather …

Nowadays, business process management plays an important role in the management of
organizations. More and more organizations describe their operations as business …

The diversity of ways in which toponyms are specified often results in mismatches between
queries and the place names contained in gazetteers. Search terms that include unofficial …

Nowadays, it is common for organizations to maintain collections of hundreds or even
thousands of business processes. Techniques exist to search through such a collection, for …

This manual describes prototype software called Febrl designed to undertake probabilistic
data cleaning and standardisation, deduplication and record linkage. Written in the Python …