Sigmod09-GrammarBasedDataCleaning-Arasu_kaushik

"A Grammar-based Entity Representation Framework for Data Cleaning", Arvind Arasu, Raghav Kaushik

• the framework presented is a programmable module that can be used to transform "dirty" input records to one or more "clean" output records with consistent representation of entities and sub-entities
• uses grammar based rules to decide which records are the same given the first name, last name and affiliation, knowing that all these information can be written in different ways although represent the same record.