Contextual Data Cleaning with Ontology FDs

Summary: Introduces Ontology Functional Dependencies (OFDs) to encode semantic relations from an ontology, enabling context-sensitive data quality beyond syntactic FDs. Senses disambiguate interpretation (e.g., jaguar as animal vs vehicle) and handle evolving data/ontologies with conflicts among data, OFDs, and knowledge. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6083
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 11,652 | 20.06%
DOI: 10.1145/3448016.3450583

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Authors

1. Zheng Zheng (McMaster University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{zheng_sigmod21,
        title = {{Contextual Data Cleaning with Ontology FDs}},
        author = {Zheng, Zheng},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3448016.3450583},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3450583},
        year = {2021}
}

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196	CrowdER: Crowdsourcing Entity Resolution	2012	VLDB	0.00025780596
533	Improving Data Quality: Consistency and Accuracy	2007	VLDB	0.0001705859
714	Guided Data Repair	2011	VLDB	0.00014662041
998	Towards Certain Fixes with Editing Rules and Master Data	2010	VLDB	0.0001275238
1,101	KATARA: A Data Cleaning System Powered by Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing	2015	SIGMOD	0.00012168934
1,476	Baran: Effective Error Correction via a Unified Context Representation and Transfer Learning	2020	VLDB	0.00010659277
2,041	Combining Quantitative and Logical Data Cleaning	2016	VLDB	9.2692538e-05
3,380	UGuide – User-Guided Discovery of FD-Detectable Errors	2017	SIGMOD	7.457539e-05
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