Searching by approximate personal-name matching

We discuss the design, building and evaluation of a method to access the information of a person, using his name as a search key, even if it has deformations. We present a similarity function, the DEA function, based on the probabilities of the edit operations accordingly to the involved letters and...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Camps Pare, Rafael, Daude Ventura, Jordi
Formato: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2003
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/369840
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/369840
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Computer programming
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Resumo:We discuss the design, building and evaluation of a method to access the information of a person, using his name as a search key, even if it has deformations. We present a similarity function, the DEA function, based on the probabilities of the edit operations accordingly to the involved letters and their position, and using a variable threshold. The efficacy of DEA is quantitatively evaluated, without human relevance judgments, very superior to the efficacy of known methods. A very efficient approximate search technique for the DEA function is also presented based on a compacted trie-tree structure.