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I had a friend that had a record linkage problem which interested me and so I dove down a rabbit-hole of Markov logic, but didn't see any mention of Naive Bayes approach when doing so. Although I don't really have any expertise in the area anyway, so it would be easier for me to miss.

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The model is usually called the Fellegi Sunter model, but once you get into the maths, it's actually the same as Naïve Bayes. If you're interested I've got a blog post that explains this here: https://www.robinlinacre.com/maths_of_fellegi_sunter/

Thanks for this, been meaning to read up on the Fellegi Sunter paper for a long time!

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