Matching is the process of determining whether identifying information about an individual, such as their name, company, address, and/or age, matches a record in the index. With Rosette Match Studio, you can enter one or more pieces of identifying information and it will return a list of potential matches from your loaded index. Each match will have a score, between 0 and 100%, indicating the match strength.
Name matching is the core of multi-field entity matching. Names are complex to match because of the large number of variations that occur within a language and across languages. These include, but are not limited to, typographical errors, phonetic spelling variations, transliteration differences, initials, and nicknames.
Rosette Match Studio also matches other Field Types, such as organization name, location name, and date.
You can investigate why particular fields matched and how scores were calculated using the compare functionality. You can change how the scores are calculated by modifying the match parameters in real time, to better understand the process and tune it for your specific application.