Incorporating String Transformations in Record Matching

Summary: Extends record matching by allowing user-defined string transformations (e.g., Robert/Bob) to define string similarity. Proposes an index-aware fuzzy-lookup framework that combines transformations with a base similarity, achieving better match quality and faster retrieval. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h6af11cabba904001
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 5.4156783e-05
Overall Rank: 7,893 | 47.10%
DOI: 10.1145/1376616.1376742

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Authors

1. Arvind Arasu (Microsoft)
2. Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft)
3. Kris Ganjam (Microsoft)
4. Raghav Kaushik (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{arasu_sigmod08,
        title = {{Incorporating String Transformations in Record Matching}},
        author = {Arasu, Arvind and Chaudhuri, Surajit and Ganjam, Kris and Kaushik, Raghav},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376742},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376742},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,522	Efficient Approximate Entity Extraction with Edit Distance Constraints	2009	SIGMOD	7.2167201e-05
5,811	Efficient Approximate Search on String Collections (Tutorial)	2009	VLDB	5.9701598e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
20	Similarity Search in High Dimensions via Hashing	1999	VLDB	0.00057610161
169	Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins	2006	VLDB	0.00027077763
264	Record Linkage: Similarity Measures and Algorithms	2006	SIGMOD	0.0002276412
7,900	Data Cleaning in Microsoft SQL Server 2005	2005	SIGMOD	5.4139981e-05

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