skyex: an R Package for Entity Linkage

As the data is becoming bigger, more heterogeneous, and originating from different sources, the availability of the same information in different forms leads to various entity linkage problems. We demonstrate our skyex package, an R package that supports all three steps of entity linkage: blocking, pairwise comparison, and labeling. Thus, the user can solve the whole process using skyex, but not necessarily; the skyex modules are independent, meaning that the user can easily integrate them with other packages or even other environments. Additionally, we are the first to provide the implementation of two skyline-based algorithms (SkyEx-F and SkyEx-D) that can label the compared pairs without the need for weights, scoring functions, etc. skyex supports the typical workflow of entity linkage, using minimalist, user- friendly function calls.