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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
0.00010500948
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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134 Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models 2021 VLDB 0.00030042569
457 Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution 2018 VLDB 0.00017899824
2,475 A Comprehensive Benchmark Framework for Active Learning Methods in Entity Matching 2020 SIGMOD 8.4074448e-05
4,679 Entity Resolution with Hierarchical Graph Attention Networks 2022 SIGMOD 6.471666e-05
4,845 Pattern Functional Dependencies for Data Cleaning 2020 VLDB 6.3808938e-05
5,525 MDedup: Duplicate Detection with Matching Dependencies 2020 VLDB 6.0927371e-05
5,624 Through the Fairness Lens: Experimental Analysis and Evaluation of Entity Matching 2023 VLDB 6.0583019e-05
5,815 Domain Adaptation for Deep Entity Resolution 2022 SIGMOD 5.9824897e-05
6,661 Data Migration using Datalog Program Synthesis 2020 VLDB 5.7159966e-05
7,070 How do Categorical Duplicates Affect ML? A New Benchmark and Empirical Analyses 2024 VLDB 5.6056639e-05
7,170 FlexER: Flexible Entity Resolution for Multiple Intents 2023 SIGMOD 5.5922367e-05
7,228 Certus: An Effective Entity Resolution Approach with Graph Differential Dependencies (GDDs) 2019 VLDB 5.5783924e-05
7,286 PromptEM: Prompt-tuning for Low-resource Generalized Entity Matching 2023 VLDB 5.5638771e-05
7,345 Discovering Association Rules from Big Graphs 2022 VLDB 5.5453863e-05
7,928 Outlier Summarization via Human Interpretable Rules 2024 VLDB 5.4233854e-05
8,253 Deep Transfer Learning for Multi-source Entity Linkage via Domain Adaptation 2022 VLDB 5.3668616e-05
8,483 DADER: Hands-Off Entity Resolution with Domain Adaptation 2022 VLDB 5.3311145e-05
8,516 Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples 2019 SIGMOD 5.3239705e-05
9,201 Data-Driven Insight Synthesis for Multi-Dimensional Data 2024 VLDB 5.2086045e-05
9,573 Deduplicated Sampling On-Demand 2025 VLDB 5.154741e-05
9,616 Discovering Top-k Rules using Subjective and Objective Criteria 2023 SIGMOD 5.1503279e-05
9,791 The Battleship Approach to the Low Resource Entity Matching Problem 2023 SIGMOD 5.1259002e-05
9,813 Making It Tractable to Catch Duplicates and Conflicts in Graphs 2023 SIGMOD 5.1233734e-05
10,189 Discovering Top-k Relevant and Diversified Rules 2024 SIGMOD 5.0628015e-05
10,346 Parallel Rule Discovery from Large Datasets by Sampling 2022 SIGMOD 5.0171283e-05
10,549 3dSAGER: Geospatial Entity Resolution over 3D Objects 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,197 Incremental Rule Discovery in Response to Parameter Updates 2025 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,278 Weak-to-Strong Prompts with Lightweight-to-Powerful LLMs for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost, and Explainable Data Transformation 2025 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,727 When Automatic Filtering Comes to the Rescue: Pre-Computing Company Competitor Pairs in Owler 2023 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,744 Splitting Tuples of Mismatched Entities 2023 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,856 SPINE: Scaling up Programming-by-Negative-Example for String Filtering and Transformation 2022 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
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198 CrowdER: Crowdsourcing Entity Resolution 2012 VLDB 0.00025546182
244 Evaluation of entity resolution approaches on real-world match problems 2010 VLDB 0.00023307564
407 COMA - A system for flexible combination of schema matching approaches 2002 VLDB 0.00019017823
433 Corleone: Hands-Off Crowdsourcing for Entity Matching 2014 SIGMOD 0.00018324965
972 The Data Civilizer System 2017 CIDR 0.00012757732
1,249 Entity Matching: How Similar Is Similar 2011 VLDB 0.00011342019
1,344 Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done? 2016 VLDB 0.00010951939
3,634 NADEEF/ER: Generic and Interactive Entity Resolution 2014 SIGMOD 7.1454896e-05
3,666 Online Entity Resolution Using an Oracle 2016 VLDB 7.1151622e-05
3,684 Generating Concise Entity Matching Rules 2017 SIGMOD 7.0983735e-05
4,239 OpenII: An Open Source Information Integration Toolkit 2010 SIGMOD 6.7065847e-05
6,190 Why Big Data Industrial Systems Need Rules and What We Can Do About It 2015 SIGMOD 5.8547344e-05
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