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Lecture Notes in Informatics


INFORMATIK 2010. Service Science - Neue Perspektiven für die Informatik. Band 1 P-175, 702-710 (2010).

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2010


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Toward an adaptive string similarity measure for matching product offers

Andreas Thor

Abstract


Product matching aims at identifying different product offers referring to the same real-world product. Product offers are provided by different merchants and describe products using textual attributes such as offer title and description. String similarity measures therefore play an important role for matching corresponding product offers. In this paper, we propose an adaptive string similarity measure that automatically adjusts the relevance of terms for the product matching. This adaptation is done step-by-step during the match process and does not require training data. We demonstrate that this approach improves the match quality in comparison to the generic TFIDF string similarity measure.


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