String Similarity Measures and Joins with Synonyms

Summary: Expansion-based string similarity with synonyms; NP-hardness tackled by selective-expansion, practical optimality. SI-tree index for joins; signature- and length-filtering with an online estimator enabling low-space, low-error candidate sizing, validated. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h5fb96ed84d49d105
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 6.2272365e-05
Overall Rank: 5,207 | 65.00%
DOI: 10.1145/2463676.2465313

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Authors

1. Jiaheng Lu (Renmin University of China)
2. Chunbin Lin (Renmin University of China)
3. Wei Wang (University of New South Wales)
4. Chen Li (University of California Irvine)
5. Haiyong Wang (Renmin University of China)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{lu_sigmod13,
        title = {{String Similarity Measures and Joins with Synonyms}},
        author = {Lu, Jiaheng and Lin, Chunbin and Wang, Wei and Li, Chen and Wang, Haiyong},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '13},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2463676.2465313},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2463676.2465313},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,809	On the Complexity of Inner Product Similarity Join	2016	PODS	7.0089846e-05
4,466	Schemaless and Structureless Graph Querying	2014	VLDB	6.5872459e-05
4,493	Approximate String Joins with Abbreviations	2018	VLDB	6.5772891e-05
9,878	Towards a Unified Framework for String Similarity Joins	2019	VLDB	5.1176637e-05
11,538	A Universal Sketch for Estimating Heavy Hitters and Per-Element Frequency Moments in Data Streams with Bounded Deletions	2024	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,615	Dealing with Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Typos in Real-World Entity Matching	2024	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
108	Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free	2001	VLDB	0.0003305531
168	Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins	2006	VLDB	0.00027163517
201	Efficient set joins on similarity predicates	2004	SIGMOD	0.00025331535
963	Can We Beat the Prefix Filtering? An Adaptive Framework for Similarity Join and Search	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012816649
1,737	Extending Autocompletion To Tolerate Errors	2009	SIGMOD	9.7494976e-05
1,933	Pass-Join: A Partition-based Method for Similarity Joins	2012	VLDB	9.3459285e-05
3,255	Efficient Exact Edit Similarity Query Processing with the Asymmetric Signature Scheme	2011	SIGMOD	7.4890984e-05
3,512	Efficient Approximate Entity Extraction with Edit Distance Constraints	2009	SIGMOD	7.2439455e-05
3,816	Trie-Join: Efficient Trie-based String Similarity Joins with Edit-Distance Constraints	2010	VLDB	7.0072547e-05
4,536	Power-Law Based Estimation of Set Similarity Join Size	2009	VLDB	6.5557137e-05
4,958	Similarity Join Size Estimation using Locality Sensitive Hashing	2011	VLDB	6.3394776e-05
7,172	Efficient Error-tolerant Query Autocompletion	2013	VLDB	5.5941906e-05

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