Matching dependencies were recently introduced as declarative rules for data cleaning and entity resolution. Enforcing a matching dependency on a database instance identifies the ...
Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Solmaz Kolahi, Laks V. S. La...
Matching dependencies (MDs) are used to declaratively specify the identification (or matching) of certain attribute values in pairs of database tuples when some similarity conditi...
Jaffer Gardezi, Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Iluju Kiring...
Central to a data cleaning system are record matching and data repairing. Matching aims to identify tuples that refer to the same real-world object, and repairing is to make a dat...
Wenfei Fan, Jianzhong Li, Shuai Ma, Nan Tang, Weny...
— An approximate string query is to find from a collection of strings those that are similar to a given query string. Answering such queries is important in many applications su...
Data collections often have inconsistencies that arise due to a variety of reasons, and it is desirable to be able to identify and resolve them efficiently. Set similarity queries ...
Marios Hadjieleftheriou, Amit Chandel, Nick Koudas...