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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
0.00027536748
Overall Rank
162 | 98.92%
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 0.00055043581
51 Efficient Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases 2004 VLDB 0.00042936299
108 Approximate String Joins in a Database (Almost) for Free 2001 VLDB 0.0003305531
161 Robust and Efficient Fuzzy Match for Online Data Cleaning 2003 SIGMOD 0.00027718195
168 Efficient Exact Set-Similarity Joins 2006 VLDB 0.00027163517
204 Declarative Data Cleaning: Language, Model, and Algorithms 2001 VLDB 0.00025190386
307 Eliminating Fuzzy Duplicates in Data Warehouses 2002 VLDB 0.00021499031
334 An Adaptive Query Execution System for Data Integration* 1999 SIGMOD 0.00020691326
474 Automated Ranking of Database Query Results 2003 CIDR 0.00017672562
801 Statistical Schema Matching across Web Query Interfaces 2003 SIGMOD 0.0001387328
838 Minimal Probing: Supporting Expensive Predicates for Top-k Queries 2002 SIGMOD 0.00013550235
1,061 VGRAM: Improving Performance of Approximate Queries on String Collections Using Variable-Length Grams 2007 VLDB 0.00012213729
1,581 Example-driven Design of Efficient Record Matching Queries 2007 VLDB 0.00010180038
1,886 Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results 2004 VLDB 9.4339749e-05
2,396 Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? * 2005 CIDR 8.5278724e-05
2,661 WISE-Integrator: An Automatic Integrator of Web Search Interfaces for E-Commerce 2003 VLDB 8.1602863e-05
2,888 DB&IR: Both Sides Now (Extended Abstract) 2007 SIGMOD 7.9072366e-05
2,921 Leveraging Set Relations in Exact Set Similarity Join 2017 VLDB 7.8519256e-05
3,088 Learning to Create Data-Integrating Queries 2008 VLDB 7.6596008e-05
3,095 Query Containment for Data Integration Systems 2000 PODS 7.6532922e-05
3,350 An Efficient Partition Based Method for Exact Set Similarity Joins 2016 VLDB 7.3910669e-05
3,403 Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates 2007 SIGMOD 7.3300953e-05
3,593 Merging the Results of Approximate Match Operations 2004 VLDB 7.183446e-05
3,810 Querying Structured Text in an XML Database 2003 SIGMOD 7.0088933e-05
4,010 Exploiting Content Redundancy for Web Information Extraction 2010 VLDB 6.8582009e-05
4,051 Crowd-Based Deduplication: An Adaptive Approach 2015 SIGMOD 6.8285415e-05
5,498 HAMSTER: Using Search Clicklogs for Schema and Taxonomy Matching 2009 VLDB 6.1035636e-05
5,762 Providing Database-like Access to the Web Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity 1998 SIGMOD 6.0035937e-05
6,967 Sampling Dirty Data for Matching Attributes 2010 SIGMOD 5.6323307e-05
7,065 Automatically Incorporating New Sources in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration 2010 SIGMOD 5.6092852e-05
7,147 Effective and Efficient Retrieval of Structured Entities 2020 VLDB 5.599306e-05
7,824 Sharing Work in Keyword Search over Databases 2011 SIGMOD 5.445981e-05
10,069 On Concise Set of Relative Candidate Keys 2014 VLDB 5.086676e-05
13,139 The Denodo Data Integration Platform 2002 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
60 The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases 1995 SIGMOD 0.000394583
117 Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions 1996 VLDB 0.00031630695
356 Regular Path Queries with Constraints 1997 PODS 0.00020103855
532 Answering Recursive Queries Using Views 1997 PODS 0.0001682881
586 W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web 1995 VLDB 0.00015944965
1,915 Formal Models of Web Queries 1997 PODS 9.3840448e-05
2,147 Query Decomposition and View Maintenance for Query Languages for Unstructured Data 1996 VLDB 8.9576491e-05
2,286 Join Queries with External Text Sources: Execution and Optimization Techniques 1995 SIGMOD 8.6942645e-05
4,382 The Distributed Information Search Component (DISCO) and the World Wide Web 1997 SIGMOD 6.6261787e-05
5,445 InfoSleuth: Agent-Based Semantic Integration of Information in Open and Dynamic Environments 1997 SIGMOD 6.1267129e-05
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