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Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity

Summary: Rejects global-domain normalization; integrates heterogeneous databases via textual-similarity WHIRL. Efficient WHIRL; experiments show fast inference, competitive with hand-coded normalization, and outperforms exact matching under a plausible global domain. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hb6c9aef87f1e04fe
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1998
Pagerank
0.00027451323
Overall Rank
164 | 98.91%
DOI
10.1145/276304.276323

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cohen_sigmod98,
        title = {{Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity}},
        author = {Cohen, William W.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '98},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/276304.276323},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/276304.276323},
        year = {1998}
}

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24 Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective 2002 PODS 0.00055201845
51 Efficient Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases 2004 VLDB 0.00042804864
108 Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free 2001 VLDB 0.00032945275
162 Robust and Efficient Fuzzy Match for Online Data Cleaning 2003 SIGMOD 0.00027626077
169 Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins 2006 VLDB 0.00027077763
206 Declarative Data Cleaning: Language, Model, and Algorithms 2001 VLDB 0.00025121652
308 Eliminating Fuzzy Duplicates in Data Warehouses 2002 VLDB 0.0002143466
336 An Adaptive Query Execution System for Data Integration* 1999 SIGMOD 0.00020619345
478 Automated Ranking of Database Query Results 2003 CIDR 0.00017612826
800 Statistical Schema Matching across Web Query Interfaces 2003 SIGMOD 0.00013834019
840 Minimal Probing: Supporting Expensive Predicates for Top-k Queries 2002 SIGMOD 0.00013521251
1,068 VGRAM: Improving Performance of Approximate Queries on String Collections Using Variable-Length Grams 2007 VLDB 0.00012170201
1,582 Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries 2007 VLDB 0.0001015019
1,897 Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results 2004 VLDB 9.3988624e-05
2,406 Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? * 2005 CIDR 8.4962449e-05
2,665 WISE-Integrator: An Automatic Integrator of Web Search Interfaces for E-Commerce 2003 VLDB 8.1331014e-05
2,883 DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract) 2007 SIGMOD 7.8942007e-05
2,933 Leveraging Set Relations in Exact Set Similarity Join 2017 VLDB 7.827041e-05
3,100 Learning to Create Data-Integrating Queries 2008 VLDB 7.6312005e-05
3,103 Query Containment for Data Integration Systems 2000 PODS 7.6298414e-05
3,359 An Efficient Partition Based Method for Exact Set Similarity Joins 2016 VLDB 7.3640394e-05
3,412 Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates 2007 SIGMOD 7.3073062e-05
3,596 Merging the Results of Approximate Match Operations 2004 VLDB 7.1625707e-05
3,819 Querying Structured Text in an XML Database 2003 SIGMOD 6.9825548e-05
4,026 Exploiting Content Redundancy for Web Information Extraction 2010 VLDB 6.8327791e-05
4,074 Crowd-Based Deduplication: An Adaptive Approach 2015 SIGMOD 6.8062505e-05
5,508 HAMSTER: Using Search Clicklogs for Schema and Taxonomy Matching 2009 VLDB 6.0881855e-05
5,776 Providing Database-like Access to the Web Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity 1998 SIGMOD 5.981183e-05
6,988 Sampling Dirty Data for Matching Attributes 2010 SIGMOD 5.6110503e-05
7,066 Effective and Efficient Retrieval of Structured Entities 2020 VLDB 5.5928342e-05
7,085 Automatically Incorporating New Sources in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration 2010 SIGMOD 5.5883722e-05
7,846 Sharing Work in Keyword Search over Databases 2011 SIGMOD 5.4254046e-05
10,108 On Concise Set of Relative Candidate Keys 2014 VLDB 5.0674699e-05
13,186 The Denodo Data Integration Platform 2002 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
60 The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases 1995 SIGMOD 0.00039343755
117 Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions 1996 VLDB 0.00031526277
358 Regular Path Queries with Constraints 1997 PODS 0.00020030407
534 Answering Recursive Queries Using Views 1997 PODS 0.0001677412
589 W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web 1995 VLDB 0.00015887069
1,925 Formal Models of Web Queries 1997 PODS 9.3502949e-05
2,159 Query Decomposition and View Maintenance for Query Languages for Unstructured Data 1996 VLDB 8.9259899e-05
2,297 Join Queries with External Text Sources: Execution and Optimization Techniques 1995 SIGMOD 8.6659442e-05
4,408 The Distributed Information Search Component (DISCO) and the World Wide Web 1997 SIGMOD 6.6019375e-05
5,463 InfoSleuth: Agent-Based Semantic Integration of Information in Open and Dynamic Environments 1997 SIGMOD 6.1043394e-05
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