Framework for Evaluating Clustering Algorithms in Duplicate Detection

Summary: Stringer is an evaluation framework for scalable duplicate-detection clustering, combining approximate joins with unconstrained algorithms. Its experiments show previously overlooked clusterers can deliver strong accuracy and scalability. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h08437ac7902036e6
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 0.00013254509
Overall Rank: 885 | 94.06%
DOI: 10.14778/1687627.1687771

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Oktie Hassanzadeh (University of Toronto)
2. Fei Chiang (University of Toronto)
3. Hyun Chul Lee (Thoora Inc.)
4. Renée J. Miller (University of Toronto)

BibTeX Citation

@article{hassanzadeh_vldb09,
        title = {{Framework for Evaluating Clustering Algorithms in Duplicate Detection}},
        author = {Hassanzadeh, Oktie and Chiang, Fei and Lee, Hyun Chul and Miller, Renée J.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '09},
        doi = {10.14778/1687627.1687771},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687627.1687771},
        year = {2009}
}

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244	Evaluation of entity resolution approaches on real-world match problems	2010	VLDB	0.00023307564
934	Question Selection for Crowd Entity Resolution	2013	VLDB	0.00012998402
2,676	The return of JedAI: End-to-End Entity Resolution for Structured and Semi-Structured Data	2018	VLDB	8.1436444e-05
2,895	Linking Temporal Records	2011	VLDB	7.8958597e-05
3,240	Evaluating Entity Resolution Results	2010	VLDB	7.4979039e-05
3,264	Automatic Data Repair: Are We Ready to Deploy?	2024	VLDB	7.4774357e-05
3,814	Incremental Record Linkage	2014	VLDB	7.0052017e-05
4,053	Crowd-Based Deduplication: An Adaptive Approach	2015	SIGMOD	6.8253348e-05
4,171	Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy	2018	SIGMOD	6.7576159e-05
5,199	QuERy: A Framework for Integrating Entity Resolution with Query Processing	2016	VLDB	6.2309669e-05
5,647	Repairing Vertex Labels under Neighborhood Constraints	2014	VLDB	6.0505094e-05
6,756	Modeling Entity Evolution for Temporal Record Matching	2014	SIGMOD	5.6879377e-05
7,412	Linking Temporal Records for Profiling Entities	2015	SIGMOD	5.531708e-05
7,418	Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy	2018	VLDB	5.5306468e-05
7,507	On the Efficiency of K-Means Clustering: Evaluation, Optimization, and Algorithm Selection	2021	VLDB	5.5050635e-05
7,649	TableDC: Deep Clustering for Tabular Data	2025	SIGMOD	5.4746904e-05
7,852	Tracking Entities in the Dynamic World: A Fast Algorithm for Matching Temporal Records	2014	VLDB	5.4385989e-05
10,184	Progressive Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2025	SIGMOD	5.0629036e-05
10,538	In-context Clustering-based Entity Resolution with Large Language Models: A Design Space Exploration	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
11,900	Frost: A Platform for Benchmarking and Exploring Data Matching Results	2022	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
12,641	CHRONOS: Facilitating History Discovery by Linking Temporal Records	2012	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
12,686	Web Scale Taxonomy Cleansing	2011	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
131	Discovering Large Dense Subgraphs in Massive Graphs	2005	VLDB	0.00030236369
168	Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins	2006	VLDB	0.00027151132
201	Efficient set joins on similarity predicates	2004	SIGMOD	0.00025319937
1,062	VGRAM: Improving Performance of Approximate Queries on String Collections Using Variable-Length Grams	2007	VLDB	0.00012208031
2,885	Seeking Stable Clusters in the Blogosphere	2007	VLDB	7.9072958e-05
3,403	Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates	2007	SIGMOD	7.3266624e-05
4,730	Finding Near Neighbors Through Cluster Pruning	2007	PODS	6.4444432e-05

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