QuERy: A Framework for Integrating Entity Resolution with Query Processing

Summary: QuERy: ER integrated with SPJ query processing on dirty data. Analysis-aware data cleaning framework for accurate, efficient SPJ answers on dirty data; empirical results show substantial efficiency gains vs traditional ER+query approaches. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hd7073417533a4a38
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 6.2160113e-05
Overall Rank: 5,206 | 65.11%
DOI: 10.14778/2850583.2850587
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Authors

1. Hotham Altwaijry (University of California Irvine)
2. Sharad Mehrotra (University of California Irvine)
3. Dmitri V. Kalashnikov (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@article{altwaijry_vldb16,
        title = {{QuERy: A Framework for Integrating Entity Resolution with Query Processing}},
        author = {Altwaijry, Hotham and Mehrotra, Sharad and Kalashnikov, Dmitri V.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '16},
        volume = {9},
        number = {3},
        pages = {120--131},
        doi = {10.14778/2850583.2850587},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2850583.2850587},
        year = {2016}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
989	Data Cleaning: Overview and Emerging Challenges	2016	SIGMOD	0.00012638176
3,372	Cleaning Denial Constraint Violations through Relaxation	2020	SIGMOD	7.3488827e-05
6,902	DAPHNE: An Open and Extensible System Infrastructure for Integrated Data Analysis Pipelines	2022	CIDR	5.6365602e-05
7,278	Entity Resolution On-Demand	2022	VLDB	5.5511396e-05
7,320	CleanM: An Optimizable Query Language for Unified Scale-Out Data Cleaning	2017	VLDB	5.5401823e-05
7,422	BrewER: Entity Resolution On-Demand	2023	VLDB	5.5150764e-05
9,415	JENNER: Just-in-time Enrichment in Query Processing	2022	VLDB	5.1672232e-05
9,496	ZIP: Lazy Imputation during Query Processing	2024	VLDB	5.1540002e-05
9,598	Deduplicated Sampling On-Demand	2025	VLDB	5.1376962e-05
12,059	TQEL: Framework for Query-Driven Linking of Top-K Entities in Social Media Blogs	2021	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 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	0.00039343755
135	Ripple Joins for Online Aggregation	1999	SIGMOD	0.00029805026
231	Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces	2005	SIGMOD	0.00023797615
308	Eliminating Fuzzy Duplicates in Data Warehouses	2002	VLDB	0.0002143466
516	Data Curation at Scale: The Data Tamer System	2013	CIDR	0.00016963937
695	NADEEF: A Commodity Data Cleaning System	2013	SIGMOD	0.00014679058
886	Framework for Evaluating Clustering Algorithms in Duplicate Detection	2009	VLDB	0.00013215874
1,721	A Sample-and-Clean Framework for Fast and Accurate Query Processing on Dirty Data	2014	SIGMOD	9.7821782e-05
1,875	Predictive Interaction for Data Transformation	2015	CIDR	9.4433754e-05
2,641	Progressive Approach to Relational Entity Resolution	2014	VLDB	8.1723025e-05
3,590	On-the-Fly Entity-Aware Query Processing in the Presence of Linkage	2010	VLDB	7.166226e-05
3,813	Incremental Record Linkage	2014	VLDB	6.9873544e-05
6,026	Query-Driven Approach to Entity Resolution	2013	VLDB	5.891678e-05

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