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SUMMARY:Modern Bayesian Record Linkage: Some Recent Developments and Open 
 Challenges - Rebecca  Steorts (Duke University)
DTSTART:20160707T150000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Record linkage\, also known as de-duplication\, entity resolut
 ion\, and coreference resolution is the process of merging together noisy 
 databases to remove duplicate entities. Record linkage is becoming more es
 sential in the age of big data\, where duplicates are ever present in such
  applications as official statistics\, human rights\, genetics\, electroni
 c medical data\, and so on. We briefly review the genesis of record linkag
 e with the work of Newcombe in 1959\, and then move to recent Bayesian dev
 elopments using novel clustering approaches in recent work. We speak of re
 cent challenges that have been overcome and ones that are present\, needin
 g guidance and attention.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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