Towards a Unified Framework for String Similarity Joins
Summary: Unified framework for combining syntactic, synonym-based, and taxonomy-based string similarities in joins. NP-hard to maximize; introduces a polynomial-time approximation and a pebble-based multi-measure signature for efficient filtering. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Pengfei Xu
- 2. Jiaheng Lu
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 11,090 | Dealing with Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Typos in Real-World Entity Matching | 2024 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 279 | Eliminating Fuzzy Duplicates in Data Warehouses | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00029141798 |
| 1,194 | Join Size Estimation Subject to Filter Conditions | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00013411666 |
| 1,396 | Can We Beat the Prefix Filtering? An Adaptive Framework for Similarity Join and Search | 2012 | SIGMOD | 0.00012215253 |
| 2,729 | String Similarity Joins: An Experimental Evaluation | 2014 | VLDB | 8.2175463e-05 |
| 3,457 | Learning String Transformations From Examples | 2009 | VLDB | 7.0753508e-05 |
| 4,682 | Approximate String Joins with Abbreviations | 2018 | VLDB | 5.9949001e-05 |
| 5,152 | String Similarity Measures and Joins with Synonyms | 2013 | SIGMOD | 5.6550754e-05 |
| 6,080 | Pigeonring: A Principle for Faster Thresholded Similarity Search | 2019 | VLDB | 5.219249e-05 |
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| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 4,682 | Approximate String Joins with Abbreviations | 2018 | VLDB | 5.9949001e-05 |
| 7,106 | Efficient Similarity Join and Search on Multi-Attribute Data | 2015 | SIGMOD | 4.8250163e-05 |
| 2,588 | Pass-Join: A Partition-based Method for Similarity Joins | 2012 | VLDB | 8.4872437e-05 |
| 8,899 | Fast Approximate Similarity Join in Vector Databases | 2025 | SIGMOD | 4.4229886e-05 |
| 125 | Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00044946098 |
| 4,907 | Probabilistic String Similarity Joins | 2010 | SIGMOD | 5.8365853e-05 |
| 4,215 | Trie-Join: Efficient Trie-based String Similarity Joins with Edit-Distance Constraints | 2010 | VLDB | 6.3464157e-05 |
| 5,152 | String Similarity Measures and Joins with Synonyms | 2013 | SIGMOD | 5.6550754e-05 |
| 2,729 | String Similarity Joins: An Experimental Evaluation | 2014 | VLDB | 8.2175463e-05 |
| 11,987 | Similarity Joins for Uncertain Strings | 2014 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |