Framework for Evaluating Clustering Algorithms in Duplicate Detection

Summary: Stringer is an evaluation framework for scalable duplicate-detection clustering, combining approximate joins with unconstrained algorithms. Its experiments show previously overlooked clusterers can deliver strong accuracy and scalability. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10020
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 0.00013496531
Overall Rank: 871 | 94.03%
DOI: 10.14778/1687627.1687771

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Oktie Hassanzadeh (University of Toronto)
2. Fei Chiang (University of Toronto)
3. Hyun Chul Lee (Thoora Inc.)
4. Renée J. Miller (University of Toronto)

BibTeX Citation

@article{hassanzadeh_vldb09,
        title = {{Framework for Evaluating Clustering Algorithms in Duplicate Detection}},
        author = {Hassanzadeh, Oktie and Chiang, Fei and Lee, Hyun Chul and Miller, Renée J.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '09},
        doi = {10.14778/1687627.1687771},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687627.1687771},
        year = {2009}
}

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248	Evaluation of entity resolution approaches on real-world match problems	2010	VLDB	0.00023278354
933	Question Selection for Crowd Entity Resolution	2013	VLDB	0.00013111293
2,623	The return of JedAI: End-to-End Entity Resolution for Structured and Semi-Structured Data	2018	VLDB	8.3327284e-05
2,829	Linking Temporal Records	2011	VLDB	8.0799603e-05
3,184	Evaluating Entity Resolution Results	2010	VLDB	7.6575598e-05
3,580	Automatic Data Repair: Are We Ready to Deploy?	2024	VLDB	7.2888516e-05
3,916	Incremental Record Linkage	2014	VLDB	7.0185679e-05
3,983	Crowd-Based Deduplication: An Adaptive Approach	2015	SIGMOD	6.9739851e-05
4,100	Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy	2018	SIGMOD	6.9016092e-05
5,204	QuERy: A Framework for Integrating Entity Resolution with Query Processing	2016	VLDB	6.3187983e-05
5,519	Repairing Vertex Labels under Neighborhood Constraints	2014	VLDB	6.1885644e-05
6,625	Modeling Entity Evolution for Temporal Record Matching	2014	SIGMOD	5.8203675e-05
7,265	Linking Temporal Records for Profiling Entities	2015	SIGMOD	5.6605087e-05
7,360	On the Efficiency of K-Means Clustering: Evaluation, Optimization, and Algorithm Selection	2021	VLDB	5.6340845e-05
7,424	Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy	2018	VLDB	5.6214566e-05
7,501	TableDC: Deep Clustering for Tabular Data	2025	SIGMOD	5.6029996e-05
7,696	Tracking Entities in the Dynamic World: A Fast Algorithm for Matching Temporal Records	2014	VLDB	5.5660296e-05
9,992	Progressive Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2025	SIGMOD	5.1815618e-05
10,318	In-context Clustering-based Entity Resolution with Large Language Models: A Design Space Exploration	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,586	Frost: A Platform for Benchmarking and Exploring Data Matching Results	2022	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,344	CHRONOS: Facilitating History Discovery by Linking Temporal Records	2012	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,389	Web Scale Taxonomy Cleansing	2011	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
138	Discovering Large Dense Subgraphs in Massive Graphs	2005	VLDB	0.00029823423
169	Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins	2006	VLDB	0.0002743469
200	Efficient set joins on similarity predicates	2004	SIGMOD	0.00025597287
1,040	VGRAM: Improving Performance of Approximate Queries on String Collections Using Variable-Length Grams	2007	VLDB	0.00012466499
2,833	Seeking Stable Clusters in the Blogosphere	2007	VLDB	8.0782625e-05
3,356	Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates	2007	SIGMOD	7.490881e-05
4,657	Finding Near Neighbors Through Cluster Pruning	2007	PODS	6.5830079e-05

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