SEMINAR SERIES

Pierre Senellart 
Telecom ParisTech

"Web Data Management"

The Web has revolutioned access to information. This series of seminar
will cover the theme of Web data management, i.e., how to acquire,
properly model, store and analyze data from the World Wide Web. We will
first give an overview of technologies used by Web search engines to
crawl, index, and rank Web pages according to users' queries. This can
only be done by using scalable approaches to distributed storage and
computing, which will be presented in a second lecture about the
MapReduce framework. Semantic Web technologies propose a workable model
for representing semantic information from the Web, either explicitly
annotated as such, or automatically extracted from existing resources;
this will be the focus of the third lecture. Finally, we will conclude
with an introduction to probabilistic data management, especially
discussing probabilistic XML data models, which are well-suited to the
representation, querying, and updating of the inherent uncertainty
contained in Web data.

Agenda:

- 18 Sept 2013, Sala Riunioni Dia, 10:00 - 11:00 
  "Web Search"

- 20 Sept 2013, Sala Riunioni Dia, 10:00 - 11:00 
  "MapReduce: Distributed Computing at Large Scale"

- 23 Sept 2013, Sala Riunioni Dia, 10:00 - 11:00 
  "Semantic Web Technologies"

- 26 Sept 2013, Sala Riunioni Dia, 10:00 - 11:00 
  "Probabilistic XML: A Data Model for the Web"


References:

- S. Abiteboul, I. Manolescu, M.-C. Rousset, P. Rigaux, and P. Senellart,
  Web Data Management. Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, January
  2012. Freely available at http://webdam.inria.fr/Jorge/

- B. Kimelfeld and P. Senellart, Probabilistic XML: Models and
  Complexity. In Z. Ma and L. Yan, editors, Advances in Probabilistic
  Databases for Uncertain Information Management, pp. 39–66.
  Springer-Verlag, May 2013.


Dr. Pierre Senellart is an Associate Professor in the DBWeb team at
Télécom ParisTech, the French leading engineering school specializing in
information technology. He is an alumnus of the École normale supérieure
and obtained his M.Sc. (2003) and his Ph.D. (2007) in computer science
from Université Paris-Sud, studying under the supervision of Serge
Abiteboul. He was awarded an Habilitation à diriger les recherches in
2012 from Université Pierre et Marie Curie. Pierre Senellart has
published articles in internationally renowned conferences and journals
(PODS, AAAI, VLDB Journal, Journal of the ACM, etc.) He has been a member
of the program committee and participated in the organization of various
international conferences and workshops (including PODS, WWW, VLDB,
SIGMOD, ICDE). He is also the Information Director of the Journal of the
ACM. His research interests focus around theoretical aspects of database
management systems and the World Wide Web, and more specifically on the
intentional indexing of the deep Web, probabilistic XML databases, and
graph mining. He also has an interest in natural language processing, and
has been collaborating with SYSTRAN, the leading machine translation
company.