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Ember: No-Code Context Enrichment via Similarity-Based Keyless Joins
Summary: Ember enables no-code context enrichment via a general keyless-join operator. It learns task-specific embeddings with Transformer-based representations, builds a similarity index over these embeddings, and delivers up to 39% recall gains across five domains with minimal configuration.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 12943
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2022
- Pagerank
- 6.7760748e-05
- Overall Rank
- 3,765 | 73.84%
- DOI
-
10.14778/3494124.3494149
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