Temporal Rules Discovery for Web Data Cleaning

Summary: Mines temporal rules for sparse, delayed, and noisy web facts, combining association measures, outlier detection, and repair during discovery. On Recorded Future data, temporal rules raise cleaning precision from 0.37 to 0.84 and F-measure by 40%. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 11513
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 6.6127851e-05
Overall Rank: 4,598 | 68.46%
DOI: 10.14778/2850583.2850592

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Authors

1. Ziawasch Abedjan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2. Cuneyt G. Akcora (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
3. Mourad Ouzzani (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
4. Paolo Papotti (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
5. Michael Stonebraker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{abedjan_vldb16,
        title = {{Temporal Rules Discovery for Web Data Cleaning}},
        author = {Abedjan, Ziawasch and Akcora, Cuneyt G. and Ouzzani, Mourad and Papotti, Paolo and Stonebraker, Michael},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '16},
        volume = {9},
        number = {4},
        pages = {336--347},
        doi = {10.14778/2850583.2850592},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2850583.2850592},
        year = {2016}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
946	HoloDetect: Few-Shot Learning for Error Detection	2019	SIGMOD	0.00013054126
1,351	Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done?	2016	VLDB	0.00011064851
3,387	Data Profiling – A Tutorial	2017	SIGMOD	7.4534663e-05
3,715	SLiMFast: Guaranteed Results for Data Fusion and Source Reliability	2017	SIGMOD	7.1763559e-05
4,757	Pattern Functional Dependencies for Data Cleaning	2020	VLDB	6.5220005e-05
4,966	Rotom: A Meta-Learned Data Augmentation Framework for Entity Matching, Data Cleaning, Text Classification, and Beyond	2021	SIGMOD	6.4225454e-05
5,435	Exploring Change – A New Dimension of Data Analytics	2019	VLDB	6.2207492e-05
8,594	Exploratory Training: When Annotators Learn About Data	2023	SIGMOD	5.4053095e-05
9,437	GIDCL: A Graph-Enhanced Interpretable Data Cleaning Framework with Large Language Models	2024	SIGMOD	5.2687567e-05
9,983	Rheem: Enabling Multi-Platform Task Execution	2016	SIGMOD	5.1844786e-05
11,654	Temporal Dependencies for Graphs	2021	SIGMOD	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
159	CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies	2004	SIGMOD	0.00028129426
185	A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification	2005	SIGMOD	0.00026231189
504	A Bayesian Approach to Discovering Truth from Conflicting Sources for Data Integration	2012	VLDB	0.00017300628
647	Discovering Data Quality Rules	2008	VLDB	0.00015334666
725	NADEEF: A Commodity Data Cleaning System	2013	SIGMOD	0.00014617251
800	The LLUNATIC Data-Cleaning Framework	2013	VLDB	0.00013911223
955	Truth Finding on the Deep Web: Is the Problem Solved?	2013	VLDB	0.00012996675
1,332	Sampling the Repairs of Functional Dependency Violations under Hard Constraints	2010	VLDB	0.00011129529
2,322	Extraction and Integration of Partially Overlapping Web Sources	2013	VLDB	8.7526172e-05
2,351	From Data Fusion to Knowledge Fusion	2014	VLDB	8.7099618e-05
2,398	BigDansing: A System for Big Data Cleansing	2015	SIGMOD	8.631172e-05
2,829	Linking Temporal Records	2011	VLDB	8.0799603e-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
8,946	Preference-aware Integration of Temporal Data	2015	VLDB	5.3479739e-05

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