Endnote—Sojourns Across Sources: Unbraiding Sino-Cambodian Histories

Unbraiding the braided tensor product

We show that the braided tensor product algebra A1⊗A2 of two module algebras A1,A2 of a quasitriangular Hopf algebraH is equal to the ordinary tensor product algebra of A1 with a subalgebra of A1⊗A2 isomorphic to A2, provided there exists a realization of H within A1. In other words, under this assumption we construct a transformation of generators which ‘decouples’ A1,A2 (i.e. makes them commu...

Entity Matching across Heterogeneous Sources

Given an entity in a source domain, finding its matched entities from another (target) domain is an important task in many applications. Traditionally, the problem was usually addressed by first extracting major keywords corresponding to the source entity and then query relevant entities from the target domain using those keywords. However, the method would inevitably fails if the two domains h...

Automatically Utilizing Secondary Sources to Align Information Across Sources

opened the door for new and exciting informationintegration applications. Information sources on the web are controlled by different organizations or people, utilize different text formats, and have varying inconsistencies. Therefore, any system that integrates information from different data sources must identify common entities from these sources. Data from many data sources on the web does n...

The Cambodian Behavioral Surveillance

Boolean Query Mapping Across Heterogeneous Information Sources

Boolean Query Mapping Across Heterogeneous Information Sources Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andreas Paepcke* Abstract---Searching over heterogeneous information sources is difficult because of the non-uniform query languages. Our approach is to allow a user to compose Boolean queries in one rich front-end language. For each user query and target source, we transform the user qu...