VersaMatch: Ontology Matching with Weak Supervision

Summary: VersaMatch: a weakly-supervised ontology matcher that synthesizes labels from heuristics, pattern rules, and external KBs to train discriminative models without manual annotation. At prediction it ensembles weak sources with the discriminator, improving F1 ≈+4pts vs weak‑supervision baselines and ≈+9pts on recent in‑the‑wild datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h532df53174cf44c3
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 4.9605343e-05
Overall Rank: 11,794 | 20.95%
DOI: 10.14778/3583140.3583148
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Authors

1. Jonathan Fürst (NEC Corporation; Zurich University of Applied Sciences)
2. Mauricio Fadel Argerich (NEC Corporation; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
3. Bin Cheng (NEC Corporation; Springer Nature)

BibTeX Citation

@article{furst_vldb23,
        title = {{VersaMatch: Ontology Matching with Weak Supervision}},
        author = {Fürst, Jonathan and Argerich, Mauricio Fadel and Cheng, Bin},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {6},
        pages = {1305--1318},
        doi = {10.14778/3583140.3583148},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3583140.3583148},
        year = {2023}
}

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132	Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models	2021	VLDB	0.00030213215
158	Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2018	SIGMOD	0.00028049555
200	Snorkel: Rapid Training Data Creation with Weak Supervision	2018	VLDB	0.00025443474
298	Generic Schema Matching with Cupid	2001	VLDB	0.00021849408
399	COMA - A system for flexible combination of schema matching approaches	2002	VLDB	0.00019094502
434	Corleone: Hands-Off Crowdsourcing for Entity Matching	2014	SIGMOD	0.00018323777
459	Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution	2018	VLDB	0.00017863654
1,129	Schema and Ontology Matching with COMA++	2005	SIGMOD	0.00011886258
1,348	Creating Embeddings of Heterogeneous Relational Datasets for Data Integration Tasks	2020	SIGMOD	0.00010943046
1,650	Falcon: Scaling Up Hands-Off Crowdsourced Entity Matching to Build Cloud Services	2017	SIGMOD	9.9690948e-05
1,858	Data Market Platforms: Trading Data Assets to Solve Data Problems	2020	VLDB	9.4779185e-05
2,271	ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples	2020	SIGMOD	8.7110698e-05
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6,185	Demonstration of Panda: A Weakly Supervised Entity Matching System	2021	VLDB	5.8413751e-05

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