%A Guangshang Gao %T Reviewing Basic Methods of Entity Resolution %0 Journal Article %D 2019 %J Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery %R 10.11925/infotech.2096-3467.2018.1388 %P 27-40 %V 3 %N 5 %U {https://manu44.magtech.com.cn/Jwk_infotech_wk3/CN/abstract/article_4654.shtml} %8 2019-05-25 %X

[Objective] This paper discusses the classical entity resolution methods and logical thinking in entity resolution theory. [Coverage] Google Scholar and CNKI were respectively used to search literatures with the keywords “Entity Resolution”, “Collective Analysis”, “Crowdsourced”, “Active Learning”, “Privacy-Preserving” and “Entity Resolution” in Chinese. I then obtained a total of 86 representative literatures in conjunction with topic screening, intensive reading and retrospective method. [Methods] For each entity resolution method, the paper first summarizes and analyzes the basic idea of the method, and presents the resolution process through illustration, and then focuses on analyzing the key strategies, algorithms or techniques adopted by the existing research in the process of implementation of the method. [Results] Entity resolution is the basic operation of data quality management, and the key step to find the value of data. [Limitations] There is no in-depth analysis of the evaluation indicators and application of each entity resolution method. [Conclusions] Although existing entity resolution methods can meet the requirements of most applications to some extent, they still face challenges in data heterogeneity, privacy protection and distributed environment in the big data environment.