Learning String Transformations From Examples
Summary: Learns a concise set of string transformations from matching examples to explain synonym, abbreviation, and alias variations beyond conventional similarity. Formulates the task as NP-hard optimization and provides a greedy approximation validated on real data. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Arvind Arasu (Microsoft)
- 2. Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft)
- 3. Raghav Kaushik (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@article{arasu_vldb09,
title = {{Learning String Transformations From Examples}},
author = {Arasu, Arvind and Chaudhuri, Surajit and Kaushik, Raghav},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '09},
doi = {10.14778/1687627.1687686},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687627.1687686},
year = {2009}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,342 | Baran: Effective Error Correction via a Unified Context Representation and Transfer Learning | 2020 | VLDB | 0.00010968223 |
| 3,587 | Learning Semantic String Transformations from Examples | 2012 | VLDB | 7.1881077e-05 |
| 4,493 | Approximate String Joins with Abbreviations | 2018 | VLDB | 6.5772891e-05 |
| 5,333 | On Indexing Error-Tolerant Set Containment | 2010 | SIGMOD | 6.1750986e-05 |
| 5,403 | Mining Document Collections to Facilitate Accurate Approximate Entity Matching | 2009 | VLDB | 6.1459021e-05 |
| 7,488 | NLyze: Interactive Programming by Natural Language for SpreadSheet Data Analysis and Manipulation | 2014 | SIGMOD | 5.5116073e-05 |
| 9,878 | Towards a Unified Framework for String Similarity Joins | 2019 | VLDB | 5.1176637e-05 |
| 11,850 | SPINE: Scaling up Programming-by-Negative-Example for String Filtering and Transformation | 2022 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 230 | Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces | 2005 | SIGMOD | 0.00023871933 |
| 262 | Record Linkage: Similarity Measures and Algorithms | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00022821392 |
| 1,118 | XTRACT: A System for Extracting Document Type Descriptors from XML Documents | 2000 | SIGMOD | 0.00011951924 |
| 1,581 | Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries | 2007 | VLDB | 0.00010180038 |
| 5,403 | Mining Document Collections to Facilitate Accurate Approximate Entity Matching | 2009 | VLDB | 6.1459021e-05 |
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