“…The use of supervised (training-based) approaches or learners aims at automating the process of entity matching to reduce the required manual effort. Training-based approaches, e.g., Naïve Bayes [49], logistic regression [46], Support Vector Machine (SVM) [11,43,49] or decision trees [63,29,49,53,54,56] have so far been used for some subtasks, e.g., determining suitable parameterizations for matchers or adjusting combination functions parameters (weights for matchers, offsets). However, training-based approaches require suitable training data and providing such data typically involves manual effort.…”