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Synthesizing Entity Matching Rules by Examples

Summary: Synthesizes EM rules from pos/neg examples via program synthesis on a GBF grammar. GBF yields concise, interpretable rules (AND/OR/NOT) that handle missing values and are competitive with deep models in effectiveness. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11670
Venue
VLDB
Year
2018
Pagerank
0.00010406856
Overall Rank
1,821 | 87.35%
DOI
10.14778/3149193.3149199

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219 Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models 2021 VLDB 0.00033354456
740 Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution 2018 VLDB 0.00017358024
2,758 A Comprehensive Benchmark Framework for Active Learning Methods in Entity Matching 2020 SIGMOD 8.1668285e-05
4,023 Through the Fairness Lens: Experimental Analysis and Evaluation of Entity Matching 2023 VLDB 6.5181292e-05
4,837 Entity Resolution with Hierarchical Graph Attention Networks 2022 SIGMOD 5.8835638e-05
5,203 Pattern Functional Dependencies for Data Cleaning 2020 VLDB 5.628087e-05
6,047 MDedup: Duplicate Detection with Matching Dependencies 2020 VLDB 5.2355891e-05
6,552 How do Categorical Duplicates Affect ML? A New Benchmark and Empirical Analyses 2024 VLDB 5.0109216e-05
6,570 Domain Adaptation for Deep Entity Resolution 2022 SIGMOD 5.0017341e-05
6,736 Data Migration using Datalog Program Synthesis 2020 VLDB 4.9417961e-05
7,187 Certus: An Effective Entity Resolution Approach with Graph Differential Dependencies (GDDs) 2019 VLDB 4.8020046e-05
7,283 Discovering Association Rules from Big Graphs 2022 VLDB 4.7716465e-05
8,094 FlexER: Flexible Entity Resolution for Multiple Intents 2023 SIGMOD 4.5840579e-05
8,158 Deep Transfer Learning for Multi-source Entity Linkage via Domain Adaptation 2022 VLDB 4.5701678e-05
8,338 Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples 2019 SIGMOD 4.538469e-05
8,401 DADER: Hands-Off Entity Resolution with Domain Adaptation 2022 VLDB 4.5176737e-05
8,913 PromptEM: Prompt-tuning for Low-resource Generalized Entity Matching 2023 VLDB 4.4229886e-05
9,019 Data-Driven Insight Synthesis for Multi-Dimensional Data 2024 VLDB 4.4052498e-05
9,362 Discovering Top-k Rules using Subjective and Objective Criteria 2023 SIGMOD 4.3472627e-05
9,462 The Battleship Approach to the Low Resource Entity Matching Problem 2023 SIGMOD 4.3324933e-05
9,489 Making It Tractable to Catch Duplicates and Conflicts in Graphs 2023 SIGMOD 4.3300131e-05
9,708 Outlier Summarization via Human Interpretable Rules 2024 VLDB 4.2951473e-05
9,847 Discovering Top-k Relevant and Diversified Rules 2024 SIGMOD 4.2680295e-05
9,962 Parallel Rule Discovery from Large Datasets by Sampling 2022 SIGMOD 4.2254157e-05
10,040 3dSAGER: Geospatial Entity Resolution over 3D Objects 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,499 Incremental Rule Discovery in Response to Parameter Updates 2025 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,618 Weak-to-Strong Prompts with Lightweight-to-Powerful LLMs for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost, and Explainable Data Transformation 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,625 Deduplicated Sampling On-Demand 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,208 When Automatic Filtering Comes to the Rescue: Pre-Computing Company Competitor Pairs in Owler 2023 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,225 Splitting Tuples of Mismatched Entities 2023 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
11,345 SPINE: Scaling up Programming-by-Negative-Example for String Filtering and Transformation 2022 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
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265 CrowdER: Crowdsourcing Entity Resolution 2012 VLDB 0.00029904018
318 Evaluation of entity resolution approaches on real-world match problems 2010 VLDB 0.00027850417
383 COMA - A system for flexible combination of schema matching approaches 2002 VLDB 0.00024802484
641 Corleone: Hands-Off Crowdsourcing for Entity Matching 2014 SIGMOD 0.00018759417
1,274 The Data Civilizer System 2017 CIDR 0.00012869297
1,338 Entity Matching: How Similar Is Similar 2011 VLDB 0.00012501156
1,403 Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done? 2016 VLDB 0.00012180046
3,568 NADEEF/ER: Generic and Interactive Entity Resolution 2014 SIGMOD 6.9588883e-05
3,854 Generating Concise Entity Matching Rules 2017 SIGMOD 6.697423e-05
4,101 Online Entity Resolution Using an Oracle 2016 VLDB 6.4462498e-05
4,485 OpenII: An Open Source Information Integration Toolkit 2010 SIGMOD 6.142053e-05
6,110 Why Big Data Industrial Systems Need Rules and What We Can Do About It 2015 SIGMOD 5.2021568e-05
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