Adaptive and transparent entity screening

1. A computing system comprising:

one or more computer processors;

a tangible computer readable medium storing software instructions executable by the computer processors to cause the computing system to:

access a first entity list comprising a plurality of first entity records, each of the first entity records comprising a plurality of first entity identifying attributes;

access a second entity list comprising a second plurality of second entity records, each of the second entity records comprising a plurality of second entity identifying attributes;

access an entity screening model comprising a plurality of matching rules, each of the matching rules indicating at least:

a type of identifying attribute associated with at least one of the first entity identifying attributes and at least one of the second entity identifying attributes;

a match criteria; and

an attribute match score;

determine pairs of entities each comprising a first entity of the first entity records and one of the second entities of the second entity records;

for each determined pair of entities:

apply the matching rules to attributes of the pair of entities to determine a plurality of attribute match scores associated with the determined pair of entities, wherein the match criteria indicates a strength of a match between the corresponding entity identifying attributes; and

generate an overall pair match score for each of the determined pairs of entities based on the plurality of attribute match scores for the determined pair of entities;

provide a user interface including at least some of the pairs of entities based on overall pair match scores;

periodically automatically determine changes in overall pair match scores.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the periodically automatically determining changes in overall pair match scores comprises:

accessing the first and second entity lists, including any updates to the first and second plurality of entities;

determining updated pairs of entities and applying the matching rules to each of the updated pairs to generate updated overall pair match scores; and

determining changes in overall pair match scores compared to previously generated match scores of the same pair of entities.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein a first matching rule comprises a matching algorithm determining a number of deletions, insertions, or substitutions required to transform a first string to a second string and a second matching rule comprises a matching algorithm encoding homophones to match strings with similar pronunciations despite minor differences in spelling, and a third matching rule comprises an exact matching algorithm.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein a first and second matching rule are each associated with a first entity identifying attribute, the first matching rule comprising a deterministic matching algorithm and the second matching rule comprising a probabilistic matching algorithm.

5. The system of claim 3 , wherein the attribute match score associated with the first matching rule is larger than the attribute match score associated with the second matching rule.

6. The system of claim 3 , wherein the second matching rule is executed only in response to an output of the first matching rule indicating that the first entity identifying attributes are not an exact match.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the software instructions are further executable to cause the computing system to:

determine one or more of the overall pair match scores that exceed an alert threshold;

update the user interface to include an indication of the determined one or more overall pair match scores.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user interface includes controls enabling adjustment of attribute match scores of respective matching rules.

9. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:

applying a score modifier criteria to one or more entity identifying attributes;

if the score modifier criteria is met by the one or more entity identifying attributes, increasing the overall pair match score by a score modifier.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the score modifier criteria indicates one or more particular geographic regions.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein application of the score modifier is performed on each pair of entities having an overall match scores above a predetermined threshold.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the predetermined threshold is zero.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the score modifier is larger than an alert threshold.

14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user interface indicates the attribute match scores for each of the matching rules and includes user interface controls configured to receive user input causing adjustments to the attribute match scores.

15. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user interface displays pairs of entities having highest overall pair match scores.

16. The system of claim 1 , wherein the user interface further displays a score modifier associated with a particular entity identifying attribute, wherein the score modifier alters the overall match score of entity pairs matching a corresponding score modifier criteria.

17. The system of claim 1 , wherein periodically automatically comprises in real time, once every few hours, once a day, or other time intervals.