CS6093/Lectures

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Every week, you must write position papers for the papers in the Required Readings list

Week 1 - Jan 24

• Course overview (First day of classes!)

http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/cs6093/Lectures/lecture1.pdf

• Provenance and Workflows

http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/cs6093/Lectures/provenance-workflows.pdf

Readings

• Provenance and Scientific Workflows: Challenges and Opportunities Susan Davidson and Juliana Freire. In Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2008. Tutorial resources

• Provenance for Computational Tasks: A Survey Juliana Freire, David Koop, Emanuele Santos, and Claudio T. Silva. In IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering, 2008.

• Querying and Creating Visualizations by Analogy. Carlos E. Scheidegger, Huy T. Vo, David Koop, Juliana Freire and Claudio T. Silva. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(6), pp. 1560-1567, 2007. Best paper in IEEE Visualization 2007.

Week 2 - Jan 31

• Provenance and Workflows (cont.)

http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/cs6093/Lectures/provenance-workflows.pdf

• Discussion about literature search

Readings

same as last week

Week 3 - Feb 7

• Information extraction: survey

http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/cs6093/Lectures/information-extraction.pdf

Announcements

• The topic winners were: Information Extraction, Deep Web, Relational Data on the Web, Web Schema Matching, NoSQL DB, Provenance in DB, Graph Indexing, Usable query interfaces

• I will email to you preliminary assignments tomorrow

Assignment

• Write a position paper for the article: ONDUX: on-demand unsupervised learning for information extraction

Readings

• A survey of approaches to automatic schema matching Rahm Erhard and Bernstein Philip, VLDB 2001

• A Brief Survey of Web Data Extraction Tools. Alberto H. F. Laender, Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Altigran Soares da Silva, Juliana S. Teixeira: SIGMOD Record 31(2): 84-93 (2002)

• ONDUX: on-demand unsupervised learning for information extraction. Eli Cortez, Altigran Soares da Silva, Marcos André Gonçalves, Edleno Silva de Moura: SIGMOD Conference 2010: 807-818

Some history and perspective:

• Data integration: the teenage years. A. Halevy, A. Rajaraman, J. Ordille. VLDB 2006.

• Generic Schema Matching, Ten Years Later. Philip A. Bernstein, Jayant Madhavan, Erhard Rahm: PVLDB 4(11): 695-701 (2011)

Week 4 - Feb 14

• Provenance and Databases
• Graph Indexing

Assignment

• Write 2 position papers --- one for each of the articles in the required reading for this week (see below)

Required Reading

• Peter Buneman, Sanjeev Khanna, Wang Chiew Tan: Why and Where: A Characterization of Data Provenance. ICDT 2001: 316-330 http://db.cis.upenn.edu/DL/whywhere.pdf
  • Presenter: Fernando Seabra
  • Rebuttal: Joe Miller (tentative)

• Graph Indexing: Tree + Delta >= Graph P. Zhao, J. X. Yu, and P. S. Yu. VLDB 2007.
  • Presenter: Nivan Ferreira
  • Rebuttal: Sergey Nepomnyachiy

Additional Suggested Reading

• A. Das Sarma, M. Theobald, and J. Widom. LIVE: A Lineage-Supported Versioned DBMS. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Heidelberg, Germany, June 2010.

http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/926/1/versioning-TR.pdf

• Total Recall | Oracle Database

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/focus-areas/storage/total-recall-whitepaper-171749.pdf

• Provenance in Databases: Past, Current, and Future W. Tan. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin.

• Closure-Tree: An Index Structure for Graph Queries H. He and A. K. Singh. ICDE 2006.

• Answering pattern match queries in large graph databases via graph embedding

Lei Zou, Lei Chen, M. Tamer Özsu and Dongyan Zhao http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/cs6093/Readings/graph-matching-vldbj2011

• Chenghui Ren, Eric Lo, Ben Kao, Xinjie Zhu, Reynold Cheng: On Querying Historical Evolving Graph Sequences. PVLDB 4(11): 726-737 (2011)

http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/cs6093/Readings/evolving-graphs-vldb11.pdf

• Algorithmics and Applications of Tree and Graph Searching D. Shasha, J. T. L. Wang, and R. Giugno. PODS 2002.

Week 5 - Feb 21

• NoSQL databases

Assignment

• Write a position papers for the required papers

Required Reading

• Parallel data processing with MapReduce: a survey. Lee et al, SIGMOD Record 2011

http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/cs6093/Readings/lee-sigrec2011.pdf

• Pig latin: a not-so-foreign language for data processing.C Olston, B Reed, U Srivastava, R Kuma, A. Tomkins. SIGMOD 2008.
  • Presenters: Dmitriy Gromov,Xiang Liu
  • Rebuttal:

Additional suggested reading

• SQL databases v. NoSQL databases. Michael Stonebraker, CACM 2010.

• NoSQL Databases. Christof Strauch. 2010.

For additional suggested readings, see http://www.vistrails.org/index.php?title=CS6093/Selected_Papers_and_Topics

Week 6 - Feb 28

TBD

Week 7 - March 6

• NoSQL Databases

Assignment

• Write a position papers for the required papers

Required Reading

• HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads. Azza Abouzeid, Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski, Daniel J. Abadi, Avi Silberschatz, Alex Rasin. VLDB 2009.

• Efficient Processing of Data Warehousing Queries in a Split Execution Environment. Bajda-Pawlikowsk et al., SIGMOD 2011
  • Presenters: Julie Odongo, Majed Hakami
  • Rebuttal:

For additional suggested readings, see http://www.vistrails.org/index.php?title=CS6093/Selected_Papers_and_Topics

Week 8 - March 13

Spring break - no class

Week 9 - March 20

TBD

Week 10 - March 27

• Web information integration

Assignment

• Write a position papers for the required papers

Required Reading

• iMAP: Discovering Complex Semantic Matches between Database Schemas. R. Dhamanka, Y. Lee, A. Doan, A. Halevy, and P. Domingos. SIGMOD-2004.

• Automatic complex schema matching across Web query interfaces Bin He, Kevin Chuan Chang, ACM Trans. Database Syst. 2006
  • Presenters: Joe Miller, Vineet Meghani
  • Rebuttal:

Additional Reading

• A survey of approaches to automatic schema matching Rahm Erhard and Bernstein Philip, VLDB 2001

Week 11 - April 3

• Wikipedia

Assignment

• Write a position papers for the required papers

Required Reading

• Information Arbitrage in Multi-Lingual Wikipedia. Adar, E. and Skinner, M. and Weld, D., Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'09)
• Yago - A Core of Semantic Knowledge. Fabian M. Suchanek, Gjergji Kasneci and Gerhard Weikum. 16th international World Wide Web conference (WWW 2007)
• DBpedia - A crystallization point for the Web of Data Bizer et al., Web Semantics 2009.
  • Presenters: Sergey Nepomnyachiy, Shoshana Gottesman
  • Rebuttal:

Additional Reading

• The YAGO-NAGA Approach to Knowledge Discovery Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Maya Ramanath, Gerhard Weikum SIGMOD Record 37:4, December 2008

• Multilingual Schema Matching for Wikipedia Infoboxes Nguyen et al., VLDB 2012

Week 12 - April 10

• Information extraction

Assignment

• Write a position papers for the required papers

Required Reading

• Optimizing Complex Extraction Programs over Evolving Text Data. F. Chen, B. Gao, A. Doan, J. Yang, R. Ramakrishnan. SIGMOD 2009
• On the Provenance of Non-Answers to Queries over Extracted Data. Huang et al, VLDB 2008
• Information Extraction From Wikipedia: Moving Down the Long Tail Fei Wu, Raphael Hoffmann, Daniel S. Weld

Presenters: Chunqing Jiang, Bhaktavatsalam Nallanthighal Rebuttal:

Additional Reading

• Information extraction Sunita Sarawagi. FnT Databases, 1(3), 2008.
• Introduction to the Special Issue on Managing Information Extraction Doan et al., SIGMOD Record 2008.

Week 13 - April 17

Assignment

• Write a position papers for the required papers

• Twitter and News: finding entities and trends

Required Reading

• Named Entity Recognition in Tweets: An Experimental Study. EMNLP 2011
• Recognizing Named Entities in Tweets ACL 2011
• Tracking Trends: Incorporating Term Volume into Temporal Topic Models. KDD 2011

Presenters: Rebuttal:

Additional reading

• Unified Analysis of Streaming News WWW 2011
• Transferring Topical Knowledge from Auxiliary Long Texts for Short Text Clustering CIKM 2011

Week 14 - April 24

• Keyword queries over relational data

Assignment

• Write a position papers for the required papers

Required Reading

• Toward Scalable Keyword Search over Relational Data Baid et al., VLDB 2010
• BANKS: Browsing and Keyword Searching in Relational Databases Aditya et al., VLDB 2002

Presenters: Rebuttal:

Week 15 - May 1

Project presentation