From pconrad at cs.ucsb.edu Wed Apr 21 11:16:31 2010 From: pconrad at cs.ucsb.edu (pconrad at cs.ucsb.edu) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:16:31 -0700 Subject: [CS Undergrad-research-interest] TEST message (please ignore) Message-ID: <8df64c2d02c7213f996cf4265c090914@cs.ucsb.edu> Sry for the spam. From pconrad at cs.ucsb.edu Wed Apr 21 11:17:48 2010 From: pconrad at cs.ucsb.edu (Phillip Conrad) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:17:48 -0700 Subject: [CS Undergrad-research-interest] CS Talk about information retrieval, Wed 04/28, 3:30pm HFH1132 Message-ID: Here's a talk about techniques for retrieving information from the web (as well as corporate intranets) where you may have very little advance knowledge of the "structure, scope, and contents of the information sources". Also, IBM India Research Lab is hiring---in case you are interested in a change of scenery, you are invited to bring your resumes. :-) Regards, Phill ************ UCSB COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT PRESENTS: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 3:30 - 4:30 Computer Science Conference Room, Harold Frank Hall Rm. 1132 HOST: Ambuj Singh and Xifeng Yan SPEAKER: Ullas Nambiar IBM Research, India Title: Information Integration, Search and Retrieval Abstract: The increasing availability of contextually related heterogeneous information sources, both over the Web and also within an enterprise Intranet, has lead to significant interest in query processing frameworks that can integrate and extract information from such sources. The fact that such sources are often autonomous and decentralized in nature brings forth several challenges such as the need to operate with very little information about the structure, scope, and contents of the information sources and also the wide variation in the query modeling capabilities of the users. To be effective, the solution needs to be aware of, and be adaptive to the characteristics of the sources (contextual correlation, data spread etc) as well as the users? inability to capture their informational need using popular query formulation techniques. In this talk, I will identify the challenges involved in building information extraction solutions over sources of information exchange that are emerging in the Web and the Enterprise. I will describe two systems: 1) AIMQ: - System for supporting imprecise user queries over structured data sources and 2) DynaCet: A domain independent dynamic faceted search solution. Note: IBM India Research Lab is hiring. Graduating students are welcome to come by and hand over resumes to Ullas. Bio: Dr. Ullas Nambiar is a researcher in the Information Management group at IBM Research ? India, Delhi where he has been involved in designing novel systems for integrating and analyzing heterogeneous enterprise data sources. He received a Ph.D in Computer Science from Arizona State University in 2005 and a B.S in Computer Science from M.S.University, Vadodara, India in 1997. He was a post-doctoral research scholar at UC Davis and a software engineer at L&T Infotech, India. He has worked primarily in data integration and search over distributed sources and of-late has been investigating challenges in dealing with massive data collections such as those available in the telecom industry. He has published over 30 papers in leading DB and IR conferences and journals, and served on several program committees. He has also co-chaired several international workshops focusing on Web data integration and analysis. More details at http://www.research.ibm.com/people/u/ubnambiar/. -- Phill Conrad, Lecturer (PSOE)*, Dept. of Computer Science University of California, Santa Barbara Joint Appointment: College of Creative Studies (www.ccs.ucsb.edu) pconrad at cs.ucsb.edu, www.cs.ucsb.edu/~pconrad ----- *PSOE: a UC teaching faculty appointment, corresponding in rank and job security to a tenure-track assistant professor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: