fuzzylink

Last update 23 February 2026

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Software version identifier PACKAGES.rds, 0.2.1, 0.2.4, 0.2.5, 0.3.0, 0.4.1

Description

Links datasets through fuzzy string matching using pretrained text embeddings. Produces more accurate record linkage when lexical string distance metrics are a poor guide to match quality (e.g., "Patricia" is more lexically similar to "Patrick" than it is to "Trish"). Capable of performing multilingual record linkage. Methods are described in Ornstein (2025) <doi:10.1017/pan.2025.10016>.

Cites work

Probabilistic Record Linkage Using Pretrained Text Embeddings

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