CS652 Spring 2004 - Course Outline

CS652 Spring 2004 - Course Schedule

-- Date --	-- Topics --
Apr 28	Course Scope and Plans, Data Extraction Ontology
Apr 28	Course Overview David W. Embley. Toward Semantic Understanding -- An Approach Based on Information Extraction. In The Fifteenth Australasian Database Conference, 2004. (Embley, .ppt) Introduction of Programming Project, Part 1
-- 1 --	-- Information Extraction --
Apr 30	Information Extraction
Apr 30	Select papers from Group G1 Information Extraction Survey (Yihong, .ppt) Alberto H. F. Laender, Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Altigran S. da Silva, and Juliana S. Teixeira. A brief survey of web data extraction tools . In ACM SIGMOD Record, 2002. Line Eikvil. Information Extraction from World Wide Web -- A Survey . Technical Report 945, Norwegian Computing Center, 1999.
May 3	Traditional Information Extraction Approaches
May 3	Further discussion of Programming Project, Part 1 Mary Elaine Califf and Raymond J. Mooney. Relational Learning of Pattern-Match Rules for Information Extraction . In Working Notes of AAAI Spring Symposium on Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing, 1997. (SuDan, .ppt) Valter Crescenzi, Giansalvatore Mecca, and Paolo Merialdo. ROADRUNNER: Towards Automatic Data Extraction from Large Web Sites . In 27th VLDB Conference, 2001. (LeiLei, .ppt)
May 5	More Information Extraction Topics
May 5	Kristie Seymore. Learning Hidden Markov Model Structure for Information Extraction. In AAAI'99 Workshop on Machine Learning for Information Extraction, 1999. (Charla, .ppt) Robert Baumgartner, Sergio Flesca, and Georg Gottlob. Visual Web Information Extraction with Lixto. In 27th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 2001. (Greg, .ppt) Xiaofeng Meng, Dongdong Hu, and Chen Li. Schema-guided wrapper maintenance for web-data extraction. In Fifth ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management, 2003. (Lei, .ppt)
May 7
May 7	Select papers from Group G2 Jerry R. Hobbs. Information Extraction from Biomedical Text. In Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2003. (Cui, .ppt) David W. Embley, Douglas Campbell, Yuan Jiang, Stephan W. Liddle, Deryle Lonsdale, Y.-K. Ng, and Randell Smith. Conceptual-Model-Based Data Extraction from Multiple-Record Web Documents. In Data and Knowledge Engineering, 1999. (Embley, .ppt) Traditional Information Extraction -- Summary (.ppt) Further discussion of Programming Project, Part 1
-- 2 --	-- Semantic Web and Ontology Generation --
May 10	Semantic Web Overview, Ontology, and Ontology Representation
May 10	Introduction of the Semantic Web (Tijerino, .ppt) Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila. The Semantic Web. In Scientific American, 2001. James Hendler. Science and the Semantic Web. In Science Magazine, 2003. Tim Berners-Lee. Semantic Web Road Map. In W3C Semantic Web Website, 2003. Nicola Guarino. Formal Ontology and Information Systems. In First International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS'98), 1998. (Yihong, .ppt)
May 12	Ontology Generation
May 12	Introduction of Web Ontology Language (OWL) (Yihong, .ppt) Tim Bray, Dave Hollander, and Andrew Layman. Namespaces in XML. In W3C Technical Report, 1999. Frank Manola and Eric Miller. RDF Primer. In W3C Technical Report, 2004. Deborah L. McGuinness and Frank van Harmelen. OWL Web Ontology Language. In W3C Technical Report, 2004. Introduction of the Programming Project Part 2 Ontology Generation Survey (Yihong, .ppt) Mariano Fernández-López. Overview of Methodologies for Building Ontologies. In IJCAI-99 Workshop on Ontologies and Problem-solving Methods, 1999. Borys Omelayenko. Learning of Ontologies for the Web: the Analysis of Existent Approaches. In International Workshop on Web Dynamics held in conj. with the 8th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT'01), 2001. Ying Ding and Schubert Foo. Ontology research and development. Part 1: A review of ontology generation. In Journal of Information Science, 2002.
May 14	More Ontology Generation
May 14	Alexandre Maedche and Steffen Staab. Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web. In IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2001. (Brian, .ppt) Feiyu Xu, Daniela Kurz, Jakub Piskorski, and Sven Schmeier. A Domain Adaptive Approach to Automatic Acquisition of Domain Relevant Terms and their Relations with Bootstrapping. In The Third international conference on language resources and evaluation (LERC 2002), 2002. (Mark, .ppt)
May 17
May 17	Robert Engels. CORPORUM-OntoExtract: Ontology Extraction Tool, On-To-Knowledge Deliverable 6. In On-To-Knowledge Technical Report, 2001. (Lei, .ppt) Naoki Sugiura, Masaki Kurematsu, Naoki Fukuta, Noriaki Izumi, and Takahira Yamaguchi. A Domain Ontology Engineering Tool with General Ontologies and Text Corpus. In 2nd International Workshop on Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON'2003), 2003. (Burdette, .ppt) Yuri A. Tijerino, David W. Embley, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Yihong Ding, and George Nagy. Toward Ontology Generation from Tables. In World Wide Web Journal , 2004. (to appear) (Tijerino, .ppt)
May 18	*Programming Project Part 1, Due.*
May 18
May 19
May 19	Select papers from Group G3 Alexandre Delteil, Catherine Faron-Zucker, and Rose Dieng. Learning Ontologies from RDF Annotations. In IJCAI'01 Workshop on Ontology Learning (OL'01), 2001. (Greg, .ppt) Jan Jannink and Gio Wiederhold. Ontology Maintenance with an Algebraic Methodology: a Case Study. In AAAI'99 Workshop on Ontology Management, 1999. (LeiLei, .ppt)
-- 3 --	-- Ontology Mapping, Merging, and Information Integration --
	Ontology Library
	Oscar Corcho, Mariano Fernández-López, and Asunción Gómez-Pérez. Methodologies, tools and languages for building ontologies. Where is the meeting point?. In Data and Knowledge Engineering, 2003. (Yihong, .ppt)
May 24
May 24	Ying Ding and Dieter Fensel. Ontology Library Systems: The Key for successful Ontology Reuse. In First Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS'01), 2001. (Charla, .ppt) Jeff Heflin and James Hendler. Dynamic Ontologies on the Web. In AAAI-2000, 2000. (SuDan, .ppt) Is the Semantic Web hype realistic? (Embley)
May 26	Ontology and Schema Mapping
May 26	Ontology Mapping and Integration Survey (Yihong, .ppt) Ying Ding and Schubert Foo. Ontology research and development. Part 2: A review of ontology mapping and evolving. In Journal of Information Science, 2002. Sofia Pinto, Asuncion Gomez-Perez, and Joao P. Martins. Some Issues on Ontology Integration. In IJCAI-99 Workshop on Ontolgies and Problem-Solving Methods: Lessons Learned and Future Trends, 1999. Yannis Kalfoglou and Marco Schorlemmer. Information-Flow-Based Ontology Mapping. In 1st International Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE'02), 2002. (Charla, .ppt) Erhard Rahm and Philip A. Bernstein. A Survey of Approaches to Automatic Schema Matching. In VLDB Journal, 2001. (Yihong, .ppt)
May 28	Schema Mapping
May 28	AnHai Doan, Jayant Madhavan, Robin Dhamankar, Pedro Domingos, and Alon Halevy. Learning to Match Ontologies on the Semantic Web. In VLDB Journal, 2003. (Burdette, .ppt) Bin He and Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang. Statistical Schema Matching across Web Query Interfaces. In ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD 2003), 2003. (Leilei, .ppt) Gerd Stumme and Alexander Maedche. FCA-MERGE: Bottom-Up Merging of Ontologies. In 17th Intl. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '01), 2001. (Yihong, .ppt)
May 31	Holiday, No Class
May 31
Jun 1	Ontology Merging
Jun 1	*Research project, Title and Thesis Statement, Due.* Rachel A. Pottinger and Philip A. Bernstein. Merging Models Based on Given Correspondences. In 29th International Conference on Very Large Databases, 2003. (Greg, .ppt) David W. Embley, Li Xu, and Yihong Ding. Automatic Direct and Indirect Schema Mapping: Experiences and Lessons Learned. In SIGMOD Record, 2004 (to appear). (Embley, .ppt)
Jun 2
Jun 2	Dejing Dou, Drew McDermott, and Peishen Qi. Ontology Translation on the Semantic Web. In ODBASE'03, 2003. (Brian, .ppt) Global-as-View and Local-as-View (Yihong, .ppt) Jeffrey D. Ullman. Information Integration Using Logical Views. In 6th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT-97), 1997. Hector Garcia-Molina, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Dallan Quass, Anand Rajaraman, Yehoshua Sagiv, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Vasilis Vassalos, and Jennifer Widom. The TSIMMIS Approach to Mediation: Data Models and Languages. In Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 1997. Alon Y. Levy, Anand Rajaraman, and Joann J. Ordille. Query heterogeneous information sources using source descriptions. In 22nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 1996.
Jun 3	*Programming Project Part 2, Due.*
Jun 3
Jun 4	Information Integration
Jun 4	Zhan Cui, Dean Jones, and Paul O'Brien. Issues in Ontology-based Information Integration. In IJCAI-01 Workshop on E-Business and the Intelligent Web, 2001. (Lei, .ppt) Farshad Hakimpour and Andreas Geppert. Global Schema Generation Using Formal Ontologies. In Int'l Conf. on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2002), 2002. (Mark, .ppt)
Jun 7
Jun 7	Natalya Fridman Noy and Mark A. Musen. PROMPT: Algorithm and Tool for Automated Ontology Merging and Alignment. In Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2000), 2000. (SuDan, .ppt)
-- 4 --	-- Ontology-related Information Extraction --
	Semantic Web Information Extraction and Web Mining
	Borislav Popov, Atanas Kiryakov, Dimitar Manov, Angel Kirilov, Damyan Ognyanoff, and Miroslav Goranov. Towards Semantic Web Information Extraction. In ISWC'03 Workshop on Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services, 2003. (Yihong, .ppt) Alexander Maedche, Günter Neumann, and Steffen Staab. Bootstrapping an Ontology-based Information Extraction System . In INTELLIGENT EXPLORATION OF THE WEB, 2002. (Lonsdale, .ppt)
Jun 9
Jun 9	Bettina Berendt, Andreas Hotho, and Gerd Stumme. Towards Semantic Web Mining. In First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'02), 2002. (Burdette, .ppt) Martin Kavalec and Vojtèch Svàtek. Information Extraction and Ontology Learning Guided by Web Directory. In ECAI'02 Workshop on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Ontology Engineering, 2002. (Mark, .ppt) Maria Vargas-Vera, John Domingue, Yannis Kalfoglou, Enrico Motta and Simon Buckingham Shum. Integration of Information Extraction with an Ontology. In KMI Technical Report, 2001. (Brian, .ppt)
Jun 10	*Research Project, Due.*
Jun 10
Jun 11	Project Presentations
Jun 11	Student Presentations (Charla, LeiLei, Greg, Lei, SuDan)
Jun 14	Project Presentations
Jun 14	Student Presentations (Burdette, Mark, Brian) Sudhir Agarwal, Siegfried Handschuh, Steffen Staab. Surfing the Service Web . In Second International Semantic Web Conference(ISWC'03), 2003. (Yihong, .ppt) Summary and Review (Embley, .ppt)