Using SPIDER: An Experience Report

Summary: Experience report on SPIDER, a SQL-driven framework for flexible, fuzzy string matching over large databases. It uses tf-idf weighted q-grams and cosine similarity with declarative SQL preprocessing to leverage DBMS optimizers for scalable data cleaning and integration. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3798
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2006
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Overall Rank: 13,612 | 5.31%
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9,430	Approximate Joins: Concepts and Techniques	2005	VLDB	4.3441378e-05

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