Bridging Structured and Unstructured Data

Topics

  • Big data querying, search, and analysis
  • Integrating data between online and real world (sensors, streams, augmented reality)
  • Federated search over multiple sources and modalities
  • Structured data extraction from unstructured text
  • Semantic annotation and metadata, in particular, automated approaches
  • Data extraction and wrapper generation
  • Large-scale schema and information extraction, integration, uncertainty, provenance
  • Discovering and representing structure  within or accompanying unstructured Web text
  • Relational data on the Web
  • Query languages and query processing systems
  • Structured/deep Web sources discovery, retrieval, and integration
  • Ranking in semistructured repositories
  • New models and query languages for Web data
  • Schema and data integration and data cleaning
  • Keyword and ranking-based retrieval on structured data
  • Hybrid search over structured and unstructured data

Track Chairs

  • Kevin Chang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
  • Peter Mika (Yahoo, Spain)

TPC Members

  • Phillip Bohannon (Facebook, USA)
  • Anish Das Sarma (Google, USA)
  • Arjen de Vries (University of Delft, The Netherlands)
  • Seung-won Hwang (POSTECH, Korea)
  • Chen Li (UC Irvine, USA)
  • Chengkai Li  (UT Arlington, USA)
  • Yutaka Matsuo (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  • Christopher Olston (Google, USA)
  • Beng Chin Ooi (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
  • Aamod Sane (Yahoo, USA)
  • Sunita Sarawagi (IIT Bombay, India)
  • S Sudarshan (IIT Bombay, India)
  • Jie Tang (Tsinghua University, China)
  • Thanh Tran (KIT, Germany)
  • Cong Yu (Google, USA)
  • Jeffrey Yu (City Univ. of Hong Kong, China)
  • Ji-Rong Wen (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
  • Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
  • Wai Lam (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • Oren Etzioni (University of Washington, USA)
  • Marius Pasca (Google)
  • Yufei Tao (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • Jianyong Wang (Tsinghua University, China)
  • Kuansan Wang (Microsoft)