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The Effect of Hidden Units in Neural Networks on Identifying Data Duplication Records

The Effect of Hidden Units in Neural Networks on Identifying Data Duplication Records
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Author(s): Abdullah Al-Namlah (Ministry of Defense and Aviation, Saudi Arabia)
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 4
Source title: Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology
Source Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-929-8.ch010
ISBN13: 9781599049298
EISBN13: 9781466665378

Abstract

Learning algorithms have been widely used to solve different problems in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Presently there are many learning algorithms; each is used depending on specifics of the problem to be solved. Examples of learning algorithms can be found in the field of Artificial Neural Networks (Neural Nets) where these algorithms are used to train the neural nets (as an example, Backpropagation algorithm). Neural nets have been used in data quality problems where a complex database has a lot of duplicate data (dirty data). By using neural nets, it was demonstrated that they can be a very useful tool to identify duplicate and non-duplicate records in the database. In this paper, we show the impact of internal architecture of neural network (hidden units) on the accuracy of results.

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