Improving the efficacy of aproximate personal name matching. Camps, R. & Daud, J. In Proc. 8th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Informations Systems (NLDB), 2003.
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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.
@inproceedings{Camps/Daude:03,
	title = {Improving the efficacy of aproximate personal name matching},
	abstract = {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.},
	booktitle = {Proc. 8th {International} {Conference} on {Applications} of {Natural} {Language} to {Informations} {Systems} ({NLDB})},
	author = {Camps, Rafael and Daud, Jordi},
	year = {2003},
}

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