Silk Link Discovery Framework

The Silk Workbench supports learning linkage rules. In order to be able to learn linkage rules, the current linking task must contain reference links.
Usually reference links can be added in two ways:

• By loading existing reference links from a file. See Managing Reference Links for details.
• By using the sampling tab

After reference links have been added, the learning can be started by pressing the start button. While learning, the current population of candidate linkage rules is displayed. At any time, the learning can be stopped by pressing the stop button. The learning will stop automatically as soon as either the full f-Measure is reached or the maximum number of iterations has been exceeded.

As soon as the learning has finished, the user can view the learned linkage rules and select a linkage rule for loading it into the editor.