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In article <455@rhesus.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu
>I've been in correspondence now with several people who have expressed
>an interest in looking for "near" duplicates, e.g., such as might arise
>when entries are added to bibliographic databases by different people.
>In this instance, entries may be "the same" to a human, but actually
>slightly different - a journal title might be abbreviated by one person
>and not the other.

OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) is a non-profit company formed
to establish, maintain, and operate a computerized library network
(among other things).  I was told that they have a database of about
18 million entries, mostly on books.  They are very interested in the
problem of detecting duplicate bibliographic records.  In their annual
review of OCLC research (July 1987-June 1988), I saw some work in that
area.  Tom Hickey would be a good person to ask for pointers, although
I do not think he is actively working in that area.  One research
project is called "Duplicate Detection and the 'Species Problem,'" which
was managed by John Bunge.  The other is called "Clustering Equivalent
Bibliographic Records," which was managed by Elaine Svenonius (a visiting
scholar then at the time, so she may not be there).

	OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
	6565 Frantz Road
	Dublin, OH 43017
	Phone: 614-764-6000

Another area of research that seems relevant is that at BellCore
by Sue Dumais (with others) on Latent Sematic Indexing.  They had
a paper in the last or second to last ACM SIGCHI Conference Proceedings.
She can probably be reached at std@bellcore.com.  I do not seem to have
the physical address.
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