CS652: Information Extraction and Integration

Course Information

Spring 2004

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Instructors

David W. Embley

      Office: TMCB 3364
      Phone:  (801) 422-6470
      Email:  embley@cs.byu.edu
      Office Hours: TBA

Yihong Ding

      Office: TMCB 2262
      Phone:  (801) 422-7604
      Email:  ding@cs.byu.edu
      Office Hours: TBA

Course Requirements

Prerequisite: CS452 or CS553 or equivalent
Attendance and Participation (~100 points)
Reading and Participation (120 points)
Paper Presentations (180 points)
Programming Project (200 points)
Research Project (100 points)
Final Exam (100 points)

Course Objectives and Content

Objectives: (1) Learn how to automatically extract, structure, and integrate information found in heterogeneous sources such as semistructured Web documents, Web databases, and Web tables. (2) Learn what the Semantic Web is and how to build ontologies for the Semantic Web. (3) Investigate new and exciting research topics and applications in the area of information extraction and integration, ontology generation, ontology mapping, and ontology merging. (4) be introduced briefly to the idea of Semantic Web services.
Content: There is no text in this course. Instead, students are expected to read and discuss papers from journals or conference proceedings or from unpublished manuscripts on the Web. The course let students read literatures in five divisions. (1) traditional data extraction methods, (2) the Semantic Web and ontology generation, (3) ontology mapping and merging, (4) ontology-driven data extraction, and (5) introduction of the Semantic Web service.

Grading

Based on total points, final grades will be calculated as follows:

                        A  93.3-100%    A- 90-93.2%
        B+ 86.7-89.9%   B  83.3-86.6%   B- 80-83.2%
        C+ 76.7-79.9%   C  73.3-76.6%   C- 70-73.2%
        D+ 66.7-69.9%   D  63.3-66.6%   D- 60-63.2%
                        E  Below 60%
        I, W, UW: given according to University Policies

Academic Integrity Policy

Academic Integrity

All homeworks and exams must be solved and written independently, or you will be penalized for cheating. The BYU Student Honor Code prohibits plagiarism. All BYU students are responsible for reading and following the Student Honor Code.

In this course we encourage students to study together. This includes discussing general strategies to be used on individual assignments. However, all work submitted for the class is to be done individually.

Some examples of what is not allowed by the conduct code: copying all or part of someone else's work (by hand or by looking at others' files, either secretly or if shown), and submitting it as your own; giving another student in the class a copy of your assignment solution; consulting with another student during an exam. If you have questions about what is allowed, please discuss it with the instructor.

Students who violate University standards of academic integrity are subject to disciplinary sanctions, including failure in the course and suspension from the University. Since dishonesty in any form harms the individual, other students, and the University, policies on academic integrity will be strictly enforced. We expect you to familiarize yourself with the Academic Integrity guidelines.

Violations of the Student Honor Code will be filed with the Honor Code Office.

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