Declarative Data Cleaning: Language, Model, and Algorithms

Summary: Declarative data cleaning language, execution model, and algorithms for cleaning workflows. Key novelty: separation of logical specification from physical execution, explainable results, and interactive tuning for data integration. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h6c69284ad42dcf2f
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2001
Pagerank: 0.00025190386
Overall Rank: 204 | 98.64%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Helena Galhardas (INRIA)
2. Daniela Florescu (Propel)
3. Dennis Shasha (New York University)
4. Eric Simon (INRIA)
5. Cristian-Augustin Saita (INRIA)

BibTeX Citation

@article{galhardas_vldb01,
        title = {{Declarative Data Cleaning: Language, Model, and Algorithms}},
        author = {Galhardas, Helena and Florescu, Daniela and Shasha, Dennis and Simon, Eric and Saita, Cristian-Augustin},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '01},
        year = {2001}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 35 of 35 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
126	Trio: A System for Integrated Management of Data, Accuracy, and Lineage	2005	CIDR	0.00030439683
188	A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification	2005	SIGMOD	0.00025872962
230	Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces	2005	SIGMOD	0.00023871933
307	Eliminating Fuzzy Duplicates in Data Warehouses	2002	VLDB	0.00021499031
411	Hippocratic Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00018699914
484	Data Integration for the Relational Web	2009	VLDB	0.00017548541
526	Improving Data Quality: Consistency and Accuracy	2007	VLDB	0.00016886621
587	Management of Probabilistic Data: Foundations and Challenges	2007	PODS	0.00015933201
618	Reasoning about Record Matching Rules	2009	VLDB	0.00015536912
649	Discovering Data Quality Rules	2008	VLDB	0.00015149865
697	NADEEF: A Commodity Data Cleaning System	2013	SIGMOD	0.00014694048
824	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00013646923
1,247	Entity Matching: How Similar Is Similar	2011	VLDB	0.00011346515
1,308	Automating Large-Scale Data Quality Verification	2018	VLDB	0.0001107886
1,581	Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries	2007	VLDB	0.00010180038
1,654	Falcon: Scaling Up Hands-Off Crowdsourced Entity Matching to Build Cloud Services	2017	SIGMOD	9.9739611e-05
2,055	Combining Quantitative and Logical Data Cleaning	2016	VLDB	9.1128336e-05
2,110	Comparative Analysis of Approximate Blocking Techniques for Entity Resolution	2016	VLDB	9.0233278e-05
2,555	DogmatiX Tracks down Duplicates in XML	2005	SIGMOD	8.3046884e-05
3,263	Automatic Data Repair: Are We Ready to Deploy?	2024	VLDB	7.4809771e-05
3,403	Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates	2007	SIGMOD	7.3300953e-05
3,426	Modeling and Querying Possible Repairs in Duplicate Detection	2009	VLDB	7.3087723e-05
3,558	++Spicy: an Open-Source Tool for Second-Generation Schema Mapping and Data Exchange	2011	VLDB	7.2077064e-05
4,171	Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy	2018	SIGMOD	6.7608137e-05
4,518	Arnold: Declarative Crowd-Machine Data Integration	2013	CIDR	6.5632796e-05
4,723	Data Auditor: Exploring Data Quality and Semantics using Pattern Tableaux	2010	VLDB	6.4528647e-05
5,388	Explaining Repaired Data with CFDs	2018	VLDB	6.151535e-05
6,135	Semandaq: A Data Quality System Based on Conditional Functional Dependencies	2008	VLDB	5.8761214e-05
6,728	On Multiple Semantics for Declarative Database Repairs	2020	SIGMOD	5.6946342e-05
7,415	Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy	2018	VLDB	5.5332662e-05
7,875	Learning Over Dirty Data Without Cleaning	2020	SIGMOD	5.4355826e-05
9,619	Interactive and Deterministic Data Cleaning: A Tossed Stone Raises a Thousand Ripples	2016	SIGMOD	5.1502244e-05
11,316	Meaningful Data Erasure in the Presence of Dependencies	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,491	Tutorial: Uncertain Entity Resolution: Re-evaluating Entity Resolution in the Big Data Era	2014	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,909	XClean in Action: A Demonstration of Declarative XML Data Cleaning	2007	CIDR	4.9793485e-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
60	The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases	1995	SIGMOD	0.000394583
108	Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free	2001	VLDB	0.0003305531
162	Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity	1998	SIGMOD	0.00027536748
591	Lineage Tracing for General Data Warehouse Transformations	2001	VLDB	0.00015888097

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