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New Approach to the Re-identification Problem Using Neural Networks

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Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (MDAI 2006)

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Abstract

Schema and record matching are tools to integrate files or databases. Record linkage is one of the tools used to link those records that while belonging to different files correspond to the same individual.

Standard record linkage methods are applied when the records of both files are described using the same variables. One of the non-standard record linkage methods corresponds to the case when files are not described using the same variables.

In this paper we study record linkage for non common variables. In particular, we use a supervised approach based on neural networks. We use a neural network to find the relationships between variables. Then, we use these relationships to translate the information in the domain of one file into the domain of the other file.

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  1. IIIA-CSIC, Campus UAB s/n, 08193, Bellaterra (Catalonia), Spain

    Jordi Nin & Vicenç Torra

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  1. IIIA, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute CSIC, Spanish National Research Council, Campus UAB s/n, Catalonia, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain

    Vicenç Torra

  2. Toho Gakuen, 3-1-10 Naka, 186-0004, Tokyo, Kunitachi, Japan

    Yasuo Narukawa

  3. Department of Computer Science and Mathematics Intelligent Technologies for Advanced Knowledge Acquisition Research Group,, University Rovira i Virgili, Av. Països Catalans, 26., 43007, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain

    Aïda Valls

  4. Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Av. Països Catalans 26, E-43007, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain

    Josep Domingo-Ferrer

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Nin, J., Torra, V. (2006). New Approach to the Re-identification Problem Using Neural Networks. In: Torra, V., Narukawa, Y., Valls, A., Domingo-Ferrer, J. (eds) Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence. MDAI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3885. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11681960_25

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