Instructor: Amélie Marian
Office hours: Mondays 2-3pm, CoRE 324
In this seminar, we will discuss some influential and/or recent work in data
management research.
At the beginning of the semester, we will select 2 or 3 topics on which to
focus.
Each week, a student will present one or more papers from leading conferences and
journals on one of the selected topics.
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
| September 7 | Amélie Marian | Introduction |
| September 14 | No Seminar (VLDB) | |
| September 21 | Denitsa Tilkidjieva |
Annotating the World Wide Web Using Natural Language, Boris Katz, RIAO Conference on Computer Assisted Information Searching on the Internet 1997. |
| September 28 | Hans Christian Woithe |
Snowball:
Extracting Relations from Large Plain-Text Collections, Eugene Agichtein and Luis Gravano, ACM ICDL 2000. |
| October 5 | Minji (Alex) Wu |
Scaling Question Answering to the Web, Cody Kwok, Oren Etzioni, and Daniel Weld, WWW 2001. |
| October 12 | Tin Lam |
AskMSR:
Question Answering Using the Worldwide Web, Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Susan Dumais, and Jimmy Lin, AAAI Spring Symposium on Mining Answers from Texts and Knowledge Bases 2002. |
| October 19 | Smriti Bhagat | XML Overview |
| October 26 | Baiyang Liu |
Storing and Querying Ordered XML Using a Relational Database System,
Igor Tatarinov, Stratis Viglas, Kevin Beyer, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Eugene Shekita, Chun Zhang, SIGMOD 2002. |
| November 2 | Denitsa Tilkidjieva |
Holistic Twig Joins: Optimal XML Pattern Matching, Nicolas Bruno, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava, SIGMOD 2002. |
| November 9 | Hans Christian Woithe |
Approximate XML Query Answers, Neoklis Polyzotis, Minos Garofalakis,Yannis Ioannidis, SIGMOD 2004 |
| November 16 | Minji (Alex) Wu |
SEMEX: A Platform for Personal Information Management and
Integration, Xin (Luna) Dong, Alon Halevy, CIDR 2005. |
| November 21 (Tuesday) |
Tin Lam |
Haystack: A platform for authoring end user semantic web
applications, D. Quan, D. Huynh, and D. R. Karger, ISWC 2003. |
| November 30 | Smriti Bhagat |
Stuff I've Seen: A system for personal information retrieval and
re-use, S. T. Dumais, E. Cutrell, E., J. J. Cadiz, G. Jancke, R. Sarin and D. C. Robbins, SIGIR 2003. |
| December 7 | Baiyang Liu |
iDM: A
Unified and Versatile Data Model for Personal Dataspace Management, Jens-Peter Dittrich, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), VLDB 2006. |
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