Volume 37    Number 4    December 2008

Managing Information Extraction | Database Principles | Distinguished Database Profiles Research Centers | Open Forum | Event Reports | Calls for Papers | Calls for Participation ENTIRE ISSUE - 128 pages (in: PDF) SIGMOD Officers, Committees and Awards (also in: PDF) Editor's Notes (in: PDF) Message to New SIGMOD Members (especially students) (in: PDF) Managing Information Extraction Introduction to the Special Issue on Managing Information Extraction A. Doan, L. Gravano, R. Ramakrishnan, S. Vaithyanathan Available in: PDF SystemT: A System for Declarative Information Extraction R. Krishnamurthy, Y. Li, S. Raghavan, F. Reiss, S. Vaithyanathan, H. Zhu Available in: PDF Information Extraction Challenges in Managing Unstructured Data A. Doan, J. Naughton, R. Ramakrishnan, A. Baid, X. Chai, F. Chen, T. Chen, E. Chu, P. DeRose, B. Gao, C. Gokhale, J. Huang, W. Shen, B.-Q. Vuong Available in: PDF Purple SOX Extraction Management System P. Bohannon, S. Merugu, C. Yu, V. Agarwal, P. DeRose, A. Iyer, A. Jain, V. Kakade M. Muralidharan, R. Ramakrishnan, W. Shen Available in: PDF Building Query Optimizers for Information Extraction: The SQoUT Project A. Jain, P. Ipeirotis, L. Gravano Available in: PDF Domain Adaptation of Information Extraction Models R. Gupta, S. Sarawagi Available in: PDF The YAGO-NAGA Approach to Knowledge Discovery G. Kasneci, M. Ramanath, F. Suchanek, G. Weikum Available in: PDF Web Page Understanding: Beyond Page-Level Search Z. Nie, J.-R. Wen, W.-Y. Ma Available in: PDF Web-Scale Extraction of Structured Data M. Cafarella, J. Madhavan, A. Halevy Available in: PDF Using Wikipedia to Bootstrap Open Information Extraction D. Weld, R. Hoffmann, F. Wu Available in: PDF Database Principles Modeling and Querying Probabilistic B. Kimelfeld, Y. Sagiv Available in: PDF On Query Algebras for Probabilistic Databases C. Koch Available in: PDF Distinguished Database Profiles Surajit Chaudhuri Speaks Out Marianne Winslett Available in: PDF URL: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/surajitc/ Research Centers The ETH Zurich Systems Group and Enterprise Computing Center Available in: PDF URL: http://www.systems.ethz.ch/ Open Forum How NOT to Review a Paper: The tools and techniques of the adversarial reviewer Available in: PDF Event Reports Report on the First European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2007) Available in: PDF Report on International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS 2008) Available in: PDF Report on the IFIP WG5.8 International Workshop on Enterprise Interoperability (IWEI 2008) Available in: PDF Report on the First Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries (VLDL 2008) Available in: PDF Report on the First Workshop on Transforming and Weaving Ontologies in Model Driven Engineering (TWOMDE 2008) Available in: PDF Calls for Papers DaMoN 2009: 5th International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware Available in: PDF URL: http://www.ins.cwi.nl/projects/damon09/ DBTest 2009: 2nd International Workshop on Testing Database Systems Available in: PDF URL: http://dbtest2009.ethz.ch/ IDAR 2009: 3rd SIGMOD PhD Workshop on Innovative Database Research Available in: PDF URL: http://wcms.inf.ed.ac.uk/idar09 MobiDE 2009: 8th International ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (10-year anniversary) Available in: PDF URL: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/mobide09/ WebDB 2009: 12th International Workshop on the Web and Databases Available in: PDF URL: http://webdb09.cse.buffalo.edu/ ER 2009: 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling Available in: PDF URL: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ER2009/ Calls for Participation WSDM 2009: 2nd ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining Available in: PDF URL: http://wsdm2009.org/ Last update: June 4, 2009 Previous Issue: September 2008 Next Issue: March 2009 Please send comments or suggestions to Alexandros Labrinidis.