Ancestry.com Operations Inc.

Jianlong Qi

Ian James Stiles

Peng Jiang

Rey Furner

Lei Wu

Eugene Greenwood

Atanu Roy

Aaron Ling

Systems and methods for determining whether two tree persons in a genealogical database correspond to the same real-life individual. Embodiments include identifying two tree persons in a genealogical database and extracting a plurality of features from both tree persons to generate two vectors. Embodiments also include calculating a plurality of metrics between the two vectors to generate a metric function. Embodiments further include generating feature weights using a recursive process based on training data input by external users, and generating a score by calculating a weighted sum of the metric function being weighted by the feature weights. The generated score may then be compared to a threshold value.

Machine-learning system and method for identifying same person in genealogical databases

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Jianlong Qi