Month Day Speaker Title
September 10 - General Discussion
17 Hila Becker Local Event Detection
24 Yang Ye The Claremont Report
October 1 Matthew Solomon Entity Extraction via Ensemble Semantics
Marco Pennachiotti and Patrick Pantel, Yahoo! Labs
Friday 9th
At 1:00 P.M.
Julia Stoyanovich
Thesis defense
Search and Ranking in Semantically Rich Applications
Julia Stoyanovich. Adviser: Kenneth Ross
15 Pablo Barrio Harnessing the Deep Web: Present and Future
Jayant Madhavan, Loredana Afanasiev, Lyublena Antova, Alon Halevy
29 Hila Becker Meme-tracking and the Dynamics of the News Cycle
Jure Leskovec, Lars Backstrom, and Jon Kleinberg, from KDD2009
November 5 Yang Ye Social Influence Analysis in Large-scale Networks
Jie Tang, Jimen Sun, Chi Wang, Zi Yang
12 Matthew Solomon User Profiling and Personalized Information Delivery on the Static and Mobile Web
Dik Lun Lee, from Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM), Nov. 2009
19 Pablo Barrio Webtables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web
Michael J. Cafarella , Alon Halevy , Zhe Daisy Wang, Eugene Wu , Yang Zhang
26 - Thanksgiving Day

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