Learning Expressive Linkage Rules using Genetic Programming

Summary: GenLink uses genetic programming to learn expressive entity-resolution rules from reference links, jointly discovering properties, transformation chains, distances, thresholds, and nonlinear comparison aggregation. It matches human-written-rule accuracy and improves on prior GP methods. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10586
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 7.1496482e-05
Overall Rank: 3,755 | 74.24%
DOI: 10.14778/2350229.2350270

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Robert Isele (Freie University of Berlin)
2. Christian Bizer (Freie University of Berlin)

BibTeX Citation

@article{isele_vldb12,
        title = {{Learning Expressive Linkage Rules using Genetic Programming}},
        author = {Isele, Robert and Bizer, Christian},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1638--1649},
        doi = {10.14778/2350229.2350270},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2350229.2350270},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,623	The return of JedAI: End-to-End Entity Resolution for Structured and Semi-Structured Data	2018	VLDB	8.3327284e-05
3,746	Discovering Linkage Points over Web Data	2013	VLDB	7.1561558e-05
4,056	A Benchmarking Study of Embedding-based Entity Alignment for Knowledge Graphs	2020	VLDB	6.9344762e-05
5,519	Repairing Vertex Labels under Neighborhood Constraints	2014	VLDB	6.1885644e-05
9,610	The Battleship Approach to the Low Resource Entity Matching Problem	2023	SIGMOD	5.2460348e-05
11,388	Matching Roles from Temporal Data	2023	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
528	On Active Learning of Record Matching Packages	2010	SIGMOD	0.00017100838

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