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+# ParallelMetablocking
+Parallel Meta-blocking in MapReduce
+Source code for parallel Meta-Blocking techniques, introduced in:
+
+George Papadakis, Georgia Koutrika, Themis Palpanas, Wolfgang Nejdl: 
+Meta-Blocking: Taking Entity Resolutionto the Next Level. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 26(8): 1946-1960 (2014)