String Similarity Measures and Joins with Synonyms

Summary: Expansion-based string similarity with synonyms; NP-hardness tackled by selective-expansion, practical optimality. SI-tree index for joins; signature- and length-filtering with an online estimator enabling low-space, low-error candidate sizing, validated. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4720
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 5.6609851e-05
Overall Rank: 5,151 | 64.17%
DOI: -

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3,320	Schemaless and Structureless Graph Querying	2014	VLDB	7.2249102e-05
4,684	Approximate String Joins with Abbreviations	2018	VLDB	6.0006406e-05
4,808	On the Complexity of Inner Product Similarity Join	2016	PODS	5.908896e-05
9,563	Towards a Unified Framework for String Similarity Joins	2019	VLDB	4.3254416e-05
10,983	A Universal Sketch for Estimating Heavy Hitters and Per-Element Frequency Moments in Data Streams with Bounded Deletions	2024	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,087	Dealing with Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Typos in Real-World Entity Matching	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
125	Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free	2001	VLDB	0.00044847972
250	Efficient set joins on similarity predicates	2004	SIGMOD	0.00030661988
266	Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins	2006	VLDB	0.00029718727
1,396	Can We Beat the Prefix Filtering? An Adaptive Framework for Similarity Join and Search	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012204748
2,073	Extending Autocompletion To Tolerate Errors	2009	SIGMOD	9.6142791e-05
2,592	Pass-Join: A Partition-based Method for Similarity Joins	2012	VLDB	8.4795761e-05
3,578	Efficient Approximate Entity Extraction with Edit Distance Constraints	2009	SIGMOD	6.9503858e-05
3,774	Efficient Exact Edit Similarity Query Processing with the Asymmetric Signature Scheme	2011	SIGMOD	6.7757301e-05
4,216	Trie-Join: Efficient Trie-based String Similarity Joins with Edit-Distance Constraints	2010	VLDB	6.3521675e-05
4,873	Power-Law Based Estimation of Set Similarity Join Size	2009	VLDB	5.8602304e-05
5,220	Similarity Join Size Estimation using Locality Sensitive Hashing	2011	VLDB	5.6216111e-05
7,141	Efficient Error-tolerant Query Autocompletion	2013	VLDB	4.8197901e-05

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