Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy

Summary: Tutorial on data integration–machine learning synergy, highlighting ML-driven automation and human-in-the-loop pipelines to cut costs and boost accuracy. It surveys ML-based data integration, the need for clean, integrated data for end-to-end ML, and outlines cross-domain challenges. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hf43f0738b1a59a82
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 6.7608137e-05
Overall Rank: 4,171 | 71.96%
DOI: 10.1145/3183713.3197387

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Xin Luna Dong (Amazon)
2. Theodoros Rekatsinas (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{dong_sigmod18,
        title = {{Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy}},
        author = {Dong, Xin Luna and Rekatsinas, Theodoros},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '18},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3183713.3197387},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183713.3197387},
        year = {2018}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,668	SystemDS: A Declarative Machine Learning System for the End-to-End Data Science Lifecycle	2020	CIDR	9.9371612e-05
2,323	ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples	2020	SIGMOD	8.6348884e-05
3,263	Automatic Data Repair: Are We Ready to Deploy?	2024	VLDB	7.4809771e-05
4,334	LIMA: Fine-grained Lineage Tracing and Reuse in Machine Learning Systems	2021	SIGMOD	6.6569314e-05
6,165	Demonstration of Panda: A Weakly Supervised Entity Matching System	2021	VLDB	5.8635301e-05
7,704	ReStore - Neural Data Completion for Relational Databases	2021	SIGMOD	5.4741304e-05
9,708	Ground Truth Inference for Weakly Supervised Entity Matching	2023	SIGMOD	5.1374628e-05
9,741	LES3: Learning-based Exact Set Similarity Search	2021	VLDB	5.1349531e-05
10,112	Data Augmentation for ML-driven Data Preparation and Integration	2021	VLDB	5.0789354e-05
12,125	Leveraging Organizational Resources to Adapt Models to New Data Modalities	2020	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
104	HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference	2017	VLDB	0.00033690989
204	Declarative Data Cleaning: Language, Model, and Algorithms	2001	VLDB	0.00025190386
205	Snorkel: Rapid Training Data Creation with Weak Supervision	2018	VLDB	0.00025181304
244	Evaluation of entity resolution approaches on real-world match problems	2010	VLDB	0.00023314591
427	Big Data Integration	2013	VLDB	0.00018465558
433	Corleone: Hands-Off Crowdsourcing for Entity Matching	2014	SIGMOD	0.00018332741
483	ActiveClean: Interactive Data Cleaning For Statistical Modeling	2016	VLDB	0.00017590977
509	Goods: Organizing Google's Datasets	2016	SIGMOD	0.00017071087
514	Data Curation at Scale: The Data Tamer System	2013	CIDR	0.00017006745
623	Entity Resolution: Theory, Practice & Open Challenges	2012	VLDB	0.00015483844
885	Framework for Evaluating Clustering Algorithms in Duplicate Detection	2009	VLDB	0.00013260551
938	Truth Finding on the Deep Web: Is the Problem Solved?	2013	VLDB	0.00012973266
1,043	Data Cleaning: Overview and Emerging Challenges	2016	SIGMOD	0.00012335114
1,053	Answering Table Queries on the Web using Column Keywords	2012	VLDB	0.00012274222
1,153	Data Management Challenges in Production Machine Learning	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011798912
1,255	Data Management in Machine Learning: Challenges, Techniques, and Systems	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011325762
1,654	Falcon: Scaling Up Hands-Off Crowdsourced Entity Matching to Build Cloud Services	2017	SIGMOD	9.9739611e-05
1,754	Data Fusion – Resolving Data Conflicts for Integration	2009	VLDB	9.7241105e-05
1,833	MacroBase: Prioritizing Attention in Fast Data	2017	SIGMOD	9.5405247e-05
2,392	From Data Fusion to Knowledge Fusion	2014	VLDB	8.5332502e-05
2,686	Data X-Ray: A Diagnostic Tool for Data Errors	2015	SIGMOD	8.1308928e-05
3,061	Fonduer: Knowledge Base Construction from Richly Formatted Data	2018	SIGMOD	7.6927483e-05
3,409	Waldo: An Adaptive Human Interface for Crowd Entity Resolution	2017	SIGMOD	7.3264601e-05
3,552	Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources	2015	VLDB	7.2097862e-05
3,791	SLiMFast: Guaranteed Results for Data Fusion and Source Reliability	2017	SIGMOD	7.0189865e-05

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