[Colloquium] Reminder: Talk by Jeffrey Naughton Today

[Katie Casey]

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Date: Monday, November 17, 2008
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Place: RY 251

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Speaker:	Jeffrey Naughton

From:		University of Wisconsin, Madison

Web page:	 http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~naughton/

Title:     Extracting Problems for the Future of DBMS Research

Abstract:   Storing, querying, and managing the evolution of extracted
data sets (that is, structured information “extracted” from text)
poses an interesting set of challenges for information management
systems. In particular, the schema may be only partially known,
chaotic, and constantly evolving; incomplete, inconsistent, and/or
incorrect data is normal and unavoidable; and users are likely to want
to query the structure of this data without wanting to learn the
schema of the data or a structured query language. It turns out that
far from being unique to extracted data sets, versions of all of these
problems have long existed, unfortunately largely unsolved, in
“classical” database applications. However, it is possible that a
change in perspective about the requirements of their solution may
allow progress. This talk should be accessible to non-DBMS folks.
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