Categories from Unstructured Texts

Note: The Abt-Buy dataset we use below is open data. See the Glossary of this course for attribution and references.

Structured data is comfortable. If we have names, addresses, birth dates, tax IDs, prices, etc., in separate attributes, we can compare each separately before drawing a final match vs. no-match conclusion. What can we do with unstructured data, as oftentimes is the case in product resolution scenarios? Let’s have a look at the Abt-Buy dataset.