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Stanford InfoBlog: August 2008

In his blog entry, Anish argues that maintaining uncertainty through the data management system (Approach-M) can yield benefits. Processing uncertain data correctly involves capturing dependencies (or correlations) along with probability values in the system. For example, consider a simplified...

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Stanford InfoBlog: December 2008

It's vacation time in the InfoLab, so I thought I would write a follow-up post on a previous topic. In June, Hector wrote a post about attending the Berkeley Database Research Self-Assessment. A few months later (in late August), the Self-Assessment came out as the Claremont Report on Database...

Generic Entity Resolution with Negative Rules - Stanford InfoLab Publication Server

Entity Resolution (also known as deduplication or merge-purge) is a process of identifying records that refer to the same real-world entity and merging them together. In practice, ER results may contain "inconsistencies," either due to...

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Stanford InfoBlog: June 2008

Over the past few years, I have looked into a variety of problems in collaborative tagging systems, like whether they can be better organized, whether they can help web search, and how to avoid spam. Most recently, I have been looking at tag prediction; I will be presenting a paper called "Social...

Stanford InfoBlog: September 2008

I recently came back from VLDB 2008 in Auckland, New Zealand where I gave a talk on my Simrank++ paper (see also my previous post, and Greg Linden's related post). The conference took place in the SkyCity Convention Center, located next to...

Stanford InfoBlog: October 2008

Entity Resolution (ER) is a process of identifying records that refer to the same real-world entity and merging them together. For example, two companies that merge may want to combine their customer records: for a given customer that...

Stanford InfoBlog: November 2008

[An earlier version of the following thoughts were posted on an internal online forum of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The material was further discussed and developed at CLIR's symposium on Promoting Digital...

Stanford InfoBlog: January 2009

This collaborative blog post was written by InfoLab members who attended the recent CIDR conference held Jan. 4-7, 2009 at the Asilomar Conference Grounds. The viewpoints in the blog do not necessarily represent the entire InfoLab. Instead of trying to cover all the interesting work presented, we...

Quantum Mechanics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Quantum mechanics is, at least at first glance and at least in part, a mathematical machine for predicting the behaviors of microscopic particles — or, at least, of the measuring instruments we use to explore those behaviors — and in that...