Title

A dictionary-based approach to fast and accurate name matching in large law enforcement databases

Authors

Authors

O. Kursun; A. Koufakou; B. Chen; M. Georgiopoulos; K. M. Reynolds;R. Eaglin

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Keywords

Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science, Information; Systems; Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Computer; Science, Theory & Methods

Abstract

In the presence of dirty data, a search for specific information by a standard query (e.g., search for a name that is misspelled or mistyped) does not return all needed information. This is an issue of grave importance in homeland security, criminology, medical applications, GIS (geographic information systems) and so on. Different techniques, such as soundex, phonix, n-grams, edit-distance, have been used to improve the matching rate in these name-matching applications. There is a pressing need for name matching approaches that provide high levels of accuracy, while at the same time maintaining the computational complexity of achieving this goal reasonably low. In this paper, we present ANSWER, a name matching approach that utilizes a prefix-tree of available names in the database. Creating and searching the name dictionary tree is fast and accurate and, thus, ANSWER is superior to other techniques of retrieving fuzzy name matches in large databases.

Journal Title

Intelligence and Security Informatics, Proceedings

Volume

3975

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

72

Last Page

82

WOS Identifier

WOS:000238207800007

ISSN

0302-9743; 3-540-34478-0

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