Methods for matching English language addresses

Abstract

AbstractAddresses occupy a niche location within the landscape of textual data, due to the positional importance carried by every word, and the geographic scope it refers to. The task of matching addresses happens every day and is present in various fields such as mail redirection, entity resolution, etc. Our work defines, and formalizes a framework to generate matching and mismatching pairs of addresses in the English language, and use it to evaluate various methods to automatically perform address matching. These methods vary widely from distance‐based approaches to deep learning models. By studying the Precision, Recall, and Accuracy metrics of these approaches, we obtain an understanding of the best suited method for this setting of the address matching task.