Linking temporal records

摘要

Many data sets contain temporal records which span a long period of time; each record is associated with a time stamp and describes some aspects of a real-world entity at a particular time (e.g., author information in DBLP). In such cases, we often wish to identify records that describe the same entity over time and so be able to perform interesting longitudinal data analysis. However, existing record linkage techniques ignore temporal information and fall short for temporal data.