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Synthesizing Entity Matching Rules by Examples

Summary: Synthesizes entity-matching rules from labeled examples using program synthesis over a General Boolean Formula grammar, supporting arbitrary predicates and missing values. Produces compact, interpretable rules that beat shallow trees and rival opaque learners. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
11857
Venue
VLDB
Year
2018
Pagerank
0.00010689571
Overall Rank
1,465 | 89.96%
DOI
10.14778/3149193.3149199

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BibTeX Citation

@article{singh_vldb18,
        title = {{Synthesizing Entity Matching Rules by Examples}},
        author = {Singh, Rohit and Meduri, Venkata Vamsikrishna and Elmagarmid, Ahmed and Madden, Samuel and Papotti, Paolo and Quiane-Ruiz, Jorge-Arnulfo and Solar-Lezama, Armando and Tang, Nan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {2},
        pages = {189--202},
        doi = {10.14778/3149193.3149199},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3149193.3149199},
        year = {2018}
}

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141 Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models 2021 VLDB 0.0002964847
489 Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution 2018 VLDB 0.0001761456
2,463 A Comprehensive Benchmark Framework for Active Learning Methods in Entity Matching 2020 SIGMOD 8.5486912e-05
4,590 Entity Resolution with Hierarchical Graph Attention Networks 2022 SIGMOD 6.6150054e-05
4,757 Pattern Functional Dependencies for Data Cleaning 2020 VLDB 6.5220005e-05
5,391 MDedup: Duplicate Detection with Matching Dependencies 2020 VLDB 6.2343031e-05
5,489 Through the Fairness Lens: Experimental Analysis and Evaluation of Entity Matching 2023 VLDB 6.200289e-05
5,730 Domain Adaptation for Deep Entity Resolution 2022 SIGMOD 6.1071585e-05
6,533 Data Migration using Datalog Program Synthesis 2020 VLDB 5.8488042e-05
6,928 How do Categorical Duplicates Affect ML? A New Benchmark and Empirical Analyses 2024 VLDB 5.7370426e-05
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7,092 FlexER: Flexible Entity Resolution for Multiple Intents 2023 SIGMOD 5.705818e-05
7,134 PromptEM: Prompt-tuning for Low-resource Generalized Entity Matching 2023 VLDB 5.6942765e-05
7,330 Discovering Association Rules from Big Graphs 2022 VLDB 5.6435171e-05
8,077 Deep Transfer Learning for Multi-source Entity Linkage via Domain Adaptation 2022 VLDB 5.4926436e-05
8,336 DADER: Hands-Off Entity Resolution with Domain Adaptation 2022 VLDB 5.451516e-05
8,358 Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples 2019 SIGMOD 5.4446041e-05
8,802 Outlier Summarization via Human Interpretable Rules 2024 VLDB 5.3685765e-05
9,020 Data-Driven Insight Synthesis for Multi-Dimensional Data 2024 VLDB 5.3306775e-05
9,381 Deduplicated Sampling On-Demand 2025 VLDB 5.2755515e-05
9,427 Discovering Top-k Rules using Subjective and Objective Criteria 2023 SIGMOD 5.271035e-05
9,610 The Battleship Approach to the Low Resource Entity Matching Problem 2023 SIGMOD 5.2460348e-05
9,627 Making It Tractable to Catch Duplicates and Conflicts in Graphs 2023 SIGMOD 5.2434488e-05
9,999 Discovering Top-k Relevant and Diversified Rules 2024 SIGMOD 5.1814573e-05
10,111 Parallel Rule Discovery from Large Datasets by Sampling 2022 SIGMOD 5.1347137e-05
10,334 3dSAGER: Geospatial Entity Resolution over 3D Objects 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
10,766 Incremental Rule Discovery in Response to Parameter Updates 2025 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
10,867 Weak-to-Strong Prompts with Lightweight-to-Powerful LLMs for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost, and Explainable Data Transformation 2025 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,407 When Automatic Filtering Comes to the Rescue: Pre-Computing Company Competitor Pairs in Owler 2023 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,424 Splitting Tuples of Mismatched Entities 2023 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,541 SPINE: Scaling up Programming-by-Negative-Example for String Filtering and Transformation 2022 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
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196 CrowdER: Crowdsourcing Entity Resolution 2012 VLDB 0.00025780596
248 Evaluation of entity resolution approaches on real-world match problems 2010 VLDB 0.00023278354
390 COMA - A system for flexible combination of schema matching approaches 2002 VLDB 0.00019382486
439 Corleone: Hands-Off Crowdsourcing for Entity Matching 2014 SIGMOD 0.00018464913
963 The Data Civilizer System 2017 CIDR 0.00012935145
1,248 Entity Matching: How Similar Is Similar 2011 VLDB 0.00011498301
1,351 Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done? 2016 VLDB 0.00011064851
3,602 Online Entity Resolution Using an Oracle 2016 VLDB 7.2691521e-05
3,611 NADEEF/ER: Generic and Interactive Entity Resolution 2014 SIGMOD 7.2580469e-05
3,713 Generating Concise Entity Matching Rules 2017 SIGMOD 7.176496e-05
4,164 OpenII: An Open Source Information Integration Toolkit 2010 SIGMOD 6.8600415e-05
6,068 Why Big Data Industrial Systems Need Rules and What We Can Do About It 2015 SIGMOD 5.9887211e-05
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