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ArticlePloS one2015

RLT-S: A Web System for Record Linkage.

Abdullah-Al Mamun, Robert Aseltine, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran

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Abdullah-Al MamunDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America.
Robert AseltineInstitute for Public Health Research, University of Connecticut, East Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America.
Sanguthevar RajasekaranDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America.

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Efficient Algorithms for Motif SearchR01LM010101 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS · PI RAJASEKARAN, SANGUTHEVAR · 2010 to 2013
$1.4M
NLM NIH HHS R01 LM010101NLM NIH HHS R01-LM010101
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundRecord linkage integrates records across multiple related data sources identifying duplicates and accounting for possible errors. Real life applications require efficient algorithms to merge these voluminous data sources to find out all records belonging to same individuals. Our recently devised highly efficient record linkage algorithms provide best-known solutions to this challenging problem.

methodWe have developed RLT-S, a freely available web tool, which implements our single linkage clustering algorithm for record linkage. This tool requires input data sets and a small set of configuration settings about these files to work efficiently. RLT-S employs exact match clustering, blocking on a specified attribute and single linkage based hierarchical clustering among these blocks.

resultsRLT-S is an implementation package of our sequential record linkage algorithm. It outperforms previous best-known implementations by a large margin. The tool is at least two times faster for any dataset than the previous best-known tools.

conclusionsRLT-S tool implements our record linkage algorithm that outperforms previous best-known algorithms in this area. This website also contains necessary information such as instructions, submission history, feedback, publications and some other sections to facilitate the usage of the tool. AVAILABILITY: RLT-S is integrated into http://www.rlatools.com, which is currently serving this tool only. The tool is freely available and can be used without login. All data files used in this paper have been stored in https://github.com/abdullah009/DataRLATools. For copies of the relevant programs please see https://github.com/abdullah009/RLATools.

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