Automatically Utilizing Secondary Sources to Align Information Across Sources

XML, web services, and the semantic web have opened the door for new and exciting information-integration applications. Information sources on the web are controlled by different organizations or people, utilize different text formats, and have varying inconsistencies. Therefore, any system that integrates information from different data sources must identify common entities from these sources. Data from many data sources on the web does not contain enough information to link the records accurately using state-of-the-art record-linkage systems. However, it is possible to exploit secondary data sources on the web to improve the record-linkage process.