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Synthesizing Entity Matching Rules by Examples

Summary: Synthesizes entity-matching rules from labeled examples using program synthesis over a General Boolean Formula grammar, supporting arbitrary predicates and missing values. Produces compact, interpretable rules that beat shallow trees and rival opaque learners. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h39da884ace97cf78
Venue
VLDB
Year
2018
Pagerank
0.00010505174
Overall Rank
1,493 | 89.97%
DOI
10.14778/3149193.3149199

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BibTeX Citation

@article{singh_vldb18,
        title = {{Synthesizing Entity Matching Rules by Examples}},
        author = {Singh, Rohit and Meduri, Venkata Vamsikrishna and Elmagarmid, Ahmed and Madden, Samuel and Papotti, Paolo and Quiane-Ruiz, Jorge-Arnulfo and Solar-Lezama, Armando and Tang, Nan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {2},
        pages = {189--202},
        doi = {10.14778/3149193.3149199},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3149193.3149199},
        year = {2018}
}

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457 Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution 2018 VLDB 0.00017907103
2,475 A Comprehensive Benchmark Framework for Active Learning Methods in Entity Matching 2020 SIGMOD 8.410678e-05
4,676 Entity Resolution with Hierarchical Graph Attention Networks 2022 SIGMOD 6.4745561e-05
4,843 Pattern Functional Dependencies for Data Cleaning 2020 VLDB 6.3839159e-05
5,522 MDedup: Duplicate Detection with Matching Dependencies 2020 VLDB 6.0956156e-05
5,623 Through the Fairness Lens: Experimental Analysis and Evaluation of Entity Matching 2023 VLDB 6.0611712e-05
5,814 Domain Adaptation for Deep Entity Resolution 2022 SIGMOD 5.9852808e-05
6,657 Data Migration using Datalog Program Synthesis 2020 VLDB 5.7187028e-05
7,068 How do Categorical Duplicates Affect ML? A New Benchmark and Empirical Analyses 2024 VLDB 5.6083188e-05
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7,342 Discovering Association Rules from Big Graphs 2022 VLDB 5.5480127e-05
7,924 Outlier Summarization via Human Interpretable Rules 2024 VLDB 5.425954e-05
8,247 Deep Transfer Learning for Multi-source Entity Linkage via Domain Adaptation 2022 VLDB 5.3694034e-05
8,476 DADER: Hands-Off Entity Resolution with Domain Adaptation 2022 VLDB 5.333639e-05
8,510 Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples 2019 SIGMOD 5.326492e-05
9,192 Data-Driven Insight Synthesis for Multi-Dimensional Data 2024 VLDB 5.2110714e-05
9,565 Deduplicated Sampling On-Demand 2025 VLDB 5.1571823e-05
9,608 Discovering Top-k Rules using Subjective and Objective Criteria 2023 SIGMOD 5.1527671e-05
9,785 The Battleship Approach to the Low Resource Entity Matching Problem 2023 SIGMOD 5.1283279e-05
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10,186 Discovering Top-k Relevant and Diversified Rules 2024 SIGMOD 5.0651993e-05
10,339 Parallel Rule Discovery from Large Datasets by Sampling 2022 SIGMOD 5.0195045e-05
10,538 3dSAGER: Geospatial Entity Resolution over 3D Objects 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,188 Incremental Rule Discovery in Response to Parameter Updates 2025 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,270 Weak-to-Strong Prompts with Lightweight-to-Powerful LLMs for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost, and Explainable Data Transformation 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,721 When Automatic Filtering Comes to the Rescue: Pre-Computing Company Competitor Pairs in Owler 2023 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,738 Splitting Tuples of Mismatched Entities 2023 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,850 SPINE: Scaling up Programming-by-Negative-Example for String Filtering and Transformation 2022 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
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198 CrowdER: Crowdsourcing Entity Resolution 2012 VLDB 0.00025555196
244 Evaluation of entity resolution approaches on real-world match problems 2010 VLDB 0.00023314591
407 COMA - A system for flexible combination of schema matching approaches 2002 VLDB 0.00019026291
433 Corleone: Hands-Off Crowdsourcing for Entity Matching 2014 SIGMOD 0.00018332741
972 The Data Civilizer System 2017 CIDR 0.00012763234
1,247 Entity Matching: How Similar Is Similar 2011 VLDB 0.00011346515
1,344 Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done? 2016 VLDB 0.00010956518
3,634 NADEEF/ER: Generic and Interactive Entity Resolution 2014 SIGMOD 7.1482079e-05
3,665 Online Entity Resolution Using an Oracle 2016 VLDB 7.1184791e-05
3,681 Generating Concise Entity Matching Rules 2017 SIGMOD 7.1014441e-05
4,239 OpenII: An Open Source Information Integration Toolkit 2010 SIGMOD 6.7096698e-05
6,187 Why Big Data Industrial Systems Need Rules and What We Can Do About It 2015 SIGMOD 5.85747e-05
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