Christen, Peter2015-12-081445-1336http://hdl.handle.net/1885/34333Linking or matching databases is becoming increasingly important in many data mining projects, as linked data can contain information that is not available otherwise, or that would be too expensive to collect manually. A main challenge when linking largeKeywords: Clustering; Data linkage; Data matching; Deduplication; Quality measures; Data handling; Data mining; Learning systems; Support vector machines; Classification (of information) Clustering; Data linkage; Data matching; Deduplication; Entity resolution; Quality measures; Support vector machines20072015-12-08