T/Th 11:00am--12:15pm, [Smith Hall 102a]
| Instructor: Keith Decker | |
| Office: Room 204, The Green House (77 E. Delaware) | |
| Hours: W/F 3:00-4:00pm | |
| Phone: 831-1959 | |
| Email: decker@cis.udel.edu |
It has been clear for some time that the Internet is a viable medium for supplying the data needed for making various types of decisions. As more useful data become available at different times and in multiple locations, however, it becomes more difficult and time-consuming for a person to collect and evaluate that data. This seminar will focus on current state-of-the-art approaches to information gathering, filtering, and integration including work in the heterogeneous database, information retrieval, and agent-oriented communities.
Seminar. I'll teach the first few overview classes, and then we'll read important and new papers, and take turns leading discussions. Students taking the course for credit should prepare 3 discussion (or, if needed, clarification questions) questions to be handed in after every class. Good discussion questions should compare and contrast approaches, consider evaluation of the works, and relate them to your own particular research interests.
Grading:
Topics will be open to class interests, but here's some suggestions based on the class discussion:
Once we get through the overview, I can alter the topic list to focus on issues that you find interesting (again, trying to mix classic and new papers)
| DATE | TOPIC | READING | PERSON |
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| 2/6 |
Agents
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Overview | Decker |
| 2/8 |
Agents
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Keith Decker and Katia Sycara. Intelligent Adaptive Information Agents. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 9 : 239--260, 1997. |
Decker |
| 2/13 | Agents | DECAF: A Flexible Multi-Agent System Architecture [Graham, Decker, Mersic] Personal Assistants for the Web: an MIT perspective [Lieberman]. In Intelligent Information Agents [Klusch, ed.] |
Decker |
| 2/15 | Agents | ACLs and CIAs: [Dignum] In Intelligent Information Agents [Klusch, ed.]
Agent Communication Languages: FIPA |
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| 2/20 | IR:Background | Information Retrieval by C. J. van Rijsbergen: Chapter 1 (html) (pdf) Readings in Information Retrieval [RIR] edited byK.S. Jones and P. Willet: Chapter 1 Overview, Chapter 2 Overview, Chapter 2 Paper 2 [Luhn], Chapter 2 Paper 4 [Maron & Kuhns] |
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| 2/22 | IR:Evaluation | RIR Chapter 3 Overview Chapter 4 Overview Chapter 2 Paper 6 [Salton & Lesk] Chapter 4 Paper 4 [Keen] IR by CJvR Chapter 7 |
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| 2/27 | IR: Indexing | IR by CJvR Chapter 2 Chapter 3, pages 22-36 only RIR Chapter 6 Overview Chapter 6, Porter FINAL PROJECT PROPOSALS DUE |
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| 3/1 | IR:Retrieval 1 (vector) |
RIR Chapter 5 Overview Chapter 5, Salton, Wong, and Yang Chapter 6, Salton and Buckley, Term-Weighting Approaches in Automatic Text Retrieval |
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| 3/6 | IR:Retrieval 2 (probabilistic) |
IR by CJvR Chapter 5 Chapter 6, to page 101 "Computational Details" RIR Chapter 5, Robertson. |
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| 3/8 | IR:Retrieval 3 (other) |
RIR Chapter 5, Turtle and Croft, Inference Networks for Document Retrieval Chapter 6, Salton and Buckley, Improving Retrieval Performance by Relevance Feedback |
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| 3/13 | Agents | DECAF PROGRAMMING | McGeary |
| 3/15 | Web Tech | Web Naming and Addressing Overview (URIs, URLs, ...) (first page) A Beginner's Guide to URLs XML in 10 points [for further info, see Extensible Markup Language (XML) at W3C |
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| 3/20 | Web Tech | XML Namespaces by Example Namespace Myths Exploded RDF: Resource Description Framework |
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| 3/22 | Ontology | What is an Ontology? [Gruber] FIPA Ontology Spec XC00086C.pdf Ontolingua, KIF,OKBC: FINAL PROJECT DETAILED PLAN DUE |
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| 3/27 | SPRING BREAK | ||
| 3/29 | SPRING BREAK | ||
| 4/3 | Ontology | Stefan Decker, Frank van Harmelen, Jeen Broekstra, Michael Erdmann, Dieter Fensel, Ian Horrocks, Michel Klein, Sergey Melnik: The Semantic Web - on the respective Roles of XML and RDF | |
| 4/5 | Ontology | Rest of FIPA Ontology Spec XC00086C.pdf
DAML (www.daml.org) DAML reference.html |
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| 4/10 | Ontology | 2 ontology papers from CIA-4
Exploiting the ontological qualities of Web resources [Crowe, Shadbolt] Automatic Ontology Construction for Multiagent based Software Gathering Service [Mena, Illarramendi, Goni] |
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| 4/12 | Ontology | Biological Ontology
Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology by the gene Ontology Consortium An evaluation of Ontology Exchange Languages for bioinformatics by McEntire, Karp, Abernathy, et. al. |
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| 4/17 | Ontology | XML, bioinformatics, and data integration by Achard, Vaysseix, and Barillot
Comparision of functional annotation schemes for genomes by Rison, Hodgman, and Thornton Gene Ontology presentation by Mike Cherry at Bio-ontologies workshop 2000 |
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| 4/19 | NO CLASS | ||
| 4/24 | Info Agents | Integration of Information from Multiple Sources of Textual Data by Bergamaschi and Beneventano | |
| 4/26 | Info Agents | A Framework fo a scalable Agent architecture of Cooperating Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources by Ouksel | |
| 5/1 | Query Planning | "Wrapper Induction for Information Extraction" [Kushmerick, Weld, Doorenbos] "Initial Results on Wrapping Semi-Structured Web Pages" [Hsu] "STALKER: Learning Extraction Rules for Semistructured, Web-based Information Sources" [Muslea, Minton, Knoblock] (this web site has code and examples) |
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| 5/3 | Query Planning | "Flexible and scalable cost-based query planning in mediators: A transformational approach" [Ambite & Knoblock] | |
| 5/8 | Query Planning | "Efficient Execution of Information-Gathering Plans"[Friedman & Weld] "The Ariadne approach to web-based information integration" [Knoblock, Minton, Ambite, Ashish, Muslea, Philpot,Tejada] |
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| 5/10 | Applications | Bioinformatics:
UDel Multi-Agent Annotation System [Decker,Khan,Schmidt,Michaud] GeneWeaver [copy from the folder] |
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| 5/15 | Applications | INFOSLEUTH [Unruh et al.] BIG [Lesser et al.] |
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| 5/22 | FINAL PROJECTS DEMO+REPORT DUE | ||