Linking Temporal Records for Profiling Entities

Summary: Temporal record linkage for profiling evolving entities. A novel transition model of attribute values, together with source freshness, enables a source-aware temporal matcher that links records to the correct time period, yielding richer profiles. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5065
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.6605087e-05
Overall Rank: 7,265 | 50.16%
DOI: 10.1145/2723372.2737789

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Authors

1. Furong Li (National University of Singapore)
2. Mong Li Lee (National University of Singapore)
3. Wynne Hsu (National University of Singapore)
4. Wang-Chiew Tan (University of California Santa Cruz)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{li_sigmod15,
        title = {{Linking Temporal Records for Profiling Entities}},
        author = {Li, Furong and Lee, Mong Li and Hsu, Wynne and Tan, Wang-Chiew},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2723372.2737789},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2737789},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,598	Temporal Rules Discovery for Web Data Cleaning	2016	VLDB	6.6127851e-05
8,105	Online Topic-Aware Entity Resolution Over Incomplete Data Streams	2021	SIGMOD	5.4860105e-05
11,434	Learning and Deducing Temporal Orders	2023	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
248	Evaluation of entity resolution approaches on real-world match problems	2010	VLDB	0.00023278354
254	Record Linkage: Similarity Measures and Algorithms	2006	SIGMOD	0.00023199211
528	On Active Learning of Record Matching Packages	2010	SIGMOD	0.00017100838
626	Entity Resolution: Theory, Practice & Open Challenges	2012	VLDB	0.00015656958
871	Framework for Evaluating Clustering Algorithms in Duplicate Detection	2009	VLDB	0.00013496531
890	Integrating Conflicting Data: The Role of Source Dependence	2009	VLDB	0.00013382697
1,393	Truth Discovery and Copying Detection in a Dynamic World	2009	VLDB	0.00010934682
2,829	Linking Temporal Records	2011	VLDB	8.0799603e-05
6,297	Characterizing and Selecting Fresh Data Sources	2014	SIGMOD	5.9228047e-05
6,625	Modeling Entity Evolution for Temporal Record Matching	2014	SIGMOD	5.8203675e-05
7,696	Tracking Entities in the Dynamic World: A Fast Algorithm for Matching Temporal Records	2014	VLDB	5.5660296e-05

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