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title: 'blocking: Various Blocking Methods for Entity Resolution'
version: 1.0.3
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.blocking
abstract: 'The goal of ''blocking'' is to provide blocking methods for record linkage
  and deduplication using approximate nearest neighbour (ANN) algorithms and graph
  techniques. It supports multiple ANN implementations via ''rnndescent'', ''RcppHNSW'',
  ''RcppAnnoy'', and ''mlpack'' packages, and provides integration with the ''reclin2''
  package. The package generates shingles from character strings and similarity vectors
  for record comparison, and includes evaluation metrics for assessing blocking performance
  including false positive rate (FPR) and false negative rate (FNR) estimates. For
  details see: Papadakis et al. (2020) <https://doi.org/10.1145/3377455>, Steorts
  et al. (2014) <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11257-2_20>, Dasylva and Goussanou
  (2021) <https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalogue/12-001-X202100200002>, Dasylva
  and Goussanou (2022) <https://doi.org/10.1007/s42081-022-00153-3>.'
authors:
- family-names: Beręsewicz
  given-names: Maciej
  email: maciej.beresewicz@ue.poznan.pl
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8281-4301
- family-names: Struzik
  given-names: Adam
  email: adastr5@st.amu.edu.pl
repository: https://ncn-foreigners.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/ncn-foreigners/blocking
commit: f06c0737b945bd0d4df56914a2b3fb8f4a97e73a
url: https://ncn-foreigners.ue.poznan.pl/blocking/
date-released: '2026-05-14'
contact:
- family-names: Beręsewicz
  given-names: Maciej
  email: maciej.beresewicz@ue.poznan.pl
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8281-4301