Presentations

2021

EmpER 2021 Workshop at ER 2021

October 2021

Inter-Generational Family Reconstitution with Enriched Ontologies

David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle, Deryle W. Lonsdale, and Scott N. Woodfield

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Extended Team Deep Dive

August 2021

Books: Information Extraction & Curation

David W. Embley, Scott N. Woodfield, and Gary James Norris

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13.4MB, pptx

Team Deep Dive

June/July 2021

Books: Information Extraction

David W. Embley, Scott N. Woodfield, and Gary James Norris

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9.1MB, pptx

2020

Family History Technology Workshop

Feb. 2020

Linking Families with Enriched Ontologies

David W. Embley

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1.9MB, pptx

Team Deep Dive

June 2020

Tree Construction from Semi-Structured Books

David W. Embley and Scott N. Woodfield

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3.7MB, pptx

2018

Family History Technology Workshop

Feb. 2018

Extraction Rule Creation by Text Snippet Examples

David W. Embley

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8.4MB, pptx

2017

FamilySearch Internal Presentation

September 2017

(Semi)automatic Extraction of Genealogical Information from Scanned & OCRed Historical Documents

David W. Embley

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4.4MB, pptxpdf

Thesis Defense

May 2017

A Green Form-Based Information-Extraction System for Historical Documents

Tae Woo Kim

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9.0MB, pdf

Family History Technology Workshop

Feb. 2017

GreenFIE: A Green Form-Based Information-Extraction System for Historical Documents

David W. Embley

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3.8MB, pptx

2016

ER'16

Nov. 2016

"Pragmatic Quality Assessment for Automatically Extracted Data"

Scott N. Woodfield

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882KB

Patron Instructions

Dec. 2016

Instructions for COMET Users

David W. Embley

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813KB

Revised Instructions for Student Adjudicators

July 2016

Adjudicator Instructions

David W. Embley

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809KB

Instructions for ground-truthing

Feb. 2016

Annotator Training, Version 6

David W. Embley

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6.1MB

Family History Technology Workshop

Feb. 2016

From Pencil and Paper to a Better Way

Scott N. Woodfield

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311KB

Family History Technology Workshop

Feb. 2016

"Sanity-Checks" over Auto-Extracted Family-History Data

Scott N. Woodfield

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1.1MB

2015

HIP'15: Historical Document Imaging and Processing

Aug. 2015

"Cost-Effective Information Extraction from Lists in OCRed Historical Documents"

David W. Embley

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3.3MB

Internal presentation to FamilySearch division head and CTO

July 2015

(Semi)automatic Extraction of Genealogical Information from Scanned & OCRed Historical Documents

David W. Embley

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2.8MB

Internal Training for Family History Missionaries: Annotator instructions for the Ensemble

Apr. 2014

Scanned Books: Annotator Training, Version 5

David W. Embley

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4.6MB

Family History Technology Workshop

Feb. 2015

"The Future of Family History Technology" in Academic Research: Panel Discussion

David W. Embley

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1.4MB

Family History Technology Workshop

Feb. 2015

Enabling Efficient Chinese Jiapu Information Extraction

David W. Embley

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4.1MB

AAAI-15 Special Track on Cognitive Systems

Jan. 2015

Ontology-based Information Extraction with a Cognitive Agent

Peter Lindes

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1.4MB

Thesis Defense

Jan. 2015

FROntIER: A Framework for Extracting and Organizing Biographical Facts in Hisotrical Documents

Joseph Park

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3.6MB

2014

Internal Training for Family History Missionaries: Annotator instructions for the Ensemble

Dec. 2014

Scanned Books: Annotator Training, Version 4

David W. Embley

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4.6MB

ER'14, QMMQ Workshop

Oct. 2014

Improving Quality Through Fidelity

Scott N. Woodfield

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374KB

Dissertation Defense

Oct. 2014

ListReader: Inducing Wrappers for OCRed Lists to Efficiently Populate Ontologies

Thomas L. Packer

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8.0MB

Internal Training for Family History Missionaries: groundtruthing for all projects and miminal-effort tool, Version 3

Sep. 2014

Scanned Books: Annotator Training, Version 3

David W. Embley

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4.7MB

Family History Research Team Internship Report

Aug. 2014

Extracting Data Automatically from Scanned Books with OntoSoar

Peter Lindes

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1.3MB

Thesis Proposal

Aug. 2014

GreenFIE-HD: A "Green" Form-based Information Extraction Tool for Historical Documents

Tae Woo Kim

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1.5MB

Internal Training for Family History Missionaries: groundtruthing for all projects and miminal-effort tool, Version 2

Apr. 2014

Scanned Books: Annotator Training, Version 2

David W. Embley

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4.3MB

Family History Technology Workshop

20 March 2014

Finding Genealogy Facts with Linguistic Analysis

Peter Lindes

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1.3MB

Family History Technology Workshop

20 March 2014

A Superstructure for Organizing Family History Information

Scott N. Woodfield

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10.1MB

Family History Technology Workshop

20 March 2014

Research in the Acquisition Pipeline

David W. Embley

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10.1MB

Student Research Conference

15 March 2014

GreemFIE-HD: A Form-based Information Extraction Tool for Historical Documents

Tae Woo Kim

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2.1MB

Internal Training for Family History Missionaries: groundtruthing for all projects and miminal-effort tool

Mar. 2014

Scanned Books: Annotator Training

David W. Embley

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4.0MB

Internal Training for Family History Missionaries: Groundtruthing for Obituaries

Jan. 2014

Ground-truthing Obituaries

David W. Embley
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1.2MB

FamilySearch System Development Managers Meeting

Jan. 2014

A Web of Knowledge for Family History (Research Directions)

David W. Embley

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3.2MB

Internal Training for Ling240 Class: Groundtruthing for FROntIER

Jan. 2014

FROntIER: Annotator Training

David W. Embley

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4.1MB

2013

BYU CS Colloquia Series

Nov. 2013

A Conceptual Modeling Approach to Harvesting, Organizing, and Analyzing Scanned and OCRed Family History Documents

David W. Embley

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10.1MB

ER'13

Nov. 2013

BIG DATA -- Conceptual Modeling to the Rescue

David W. Embley

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10.1MB

Internal Research Group Presentation

Oct. 2013

Sifter: A method for classifying books dense (or not) in family history information & for selecting 3-page sequences for evaluation

Deryle W. Lonsdale

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54KB

ICDAR HIP '13

Aug. 2013

Cost-effective Ontology Population with Data from Lists in OCRed Historical Documents

Thomas L. Packer

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1.6MB

Dagstuhl Seminar

May 2013

David W. Embley

Automated Reasoning on Conceptual Schemas in FamilySearch---a Large-Scale Reasoning Application

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3.4MB

RootsTech Family History Technology Workshop

March 2013

OntoSoar: Using Language to Find Genealogy Facts

Peter Lindes

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453KB

Populating Ontologies with Data from Lists in Family History Books

Thomas L. Packer

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1.7MB

Extracting and Organizing Facts of Interest from OCRed Historical Documents

Joseph Park

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2.88MB

Presentations -- CPMS Student-Research-Conference, BYU

March 2013

Regular-expression Generator

Tae Woo Kim

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10.4MB

Using Language to Find Genealogy Facts

Peter Lindes

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476KB

Populating Ontologies with Data from OCRed Lists

Thomas L. Packer

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1.8MB

Extracting and Organizing Facts of Interest from OCRed Historical Documents

Joseph Park

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2.9MB

Thesis Proposal, BYU CS

FROntIER: Fact Recognizer for Ontologies with Inference and Entity Resolution

February 2013

Joseph Park

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2.8MB

2012

Dissertation Proposal, BYU CS

Populating Ontologies by Semi-automatically Inducing Information Extraction Wrappers for Lists in OCRed Documents

December 2012

Thomas L. Packer

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2.3MB

Dissertation Area Overview, BYU CS

Research Area: Machine Learning-based Information Extraction from Document Images (Prezi.com presentation)

December 2012

Thomas L. Packer

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56MB

CS652 Class Project

FROntIER: A Framework for Extracting and Organizing Biographical Facts in Historical Documents

December 2012

Joseph Park

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1MB

CS652 Class Project

Bootstrapping Regular-Expression Recognizers to Help Human Annotators

December 2012

Tae Woo Kim

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1.2MB

CS652 Class Project

OntoSoar: Feeding a Growing Ontology

December 2012

Peter Lindes

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476KB

ER 2012

Cross-Language Hybrid Keyword and Semantic Search

October 2012

David W. Embley

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229KB

DEG Implementation Meeting

Semiautomatic Fact Extraction and Organization of Persons in Genealogical Records

June 2012

Joseph Park

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753KB

Invited Presentation at the June NLP Luncheon

A Web of Knowledge for Historical Documents

June 2012

David W. Embley

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7.5MB

Ringvorlesung 2012, Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt

May 2012

Stephen W. Liddle

A Conceptual-Modeling Approach to Data Extraction -or- "Oh the Places You [Ontologies] Will Go"

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3.1MB

NCUR2012, Weber State University

March 2012

Joseph Park

Toward Automatically Extracting Facts about People in OCRed Historical Documents

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840KB

Student Presentations -- Spring-Research-Conference, BYU

March 2012

Cross-language Information Retrieval

Joseph Park

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912KB

ListReader: Wrapper Induction for Lists in OCRed Documents

Thomas Packer

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3.2MB

RootsTech Family History Technology Workshop

February 2012

Extracting information from French obituaries

Deryle W. Lonsdale

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1.2MB

Lessons Learned in Automatically Detecting Lists in OCRed Historical Documents

Thomas Packer

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3.3MB

Invited Presentation at RootsTech 2012

February 2012

A Web of Knowledge for Historical Documents

David W. Embley

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8.6MB

2011

HyKSS one pager, November 2011 (David W. Embley) HyKSS
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Paper presentation at Onto-CoM, November 2011 (David W. Embley) Principled Pragmatism: A Guide to the Adaptation of Philosophical Disciplines to Conceptual Modeling
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Paper presentation at ER 2011

November 2011

Stephen W. Liddle

Multilingual Ontologies for Cross-Language Information Extraction and Semantic Search

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2.3MB

ORCA poster, September 2011 (Joseph Park) Person-Name Disambiguation using Extracted Facts
           (View/Download, 8.4MB)

Paper presentation at HIP'11, September 2011 (Thomas Packer) Performing Information Extraction to Improve OCR Error Detection in Semi-structured Historical Documents
           (View/Download, 2.5 MB)

Paper presentation at HIP'11, September 2011 (David W. Embley) Enabling Search for Facts and Implied Facts in Historical Documents
           (View/Download, 1.3MB)

Poster presentation at HIP'11, September 2011 (George Nagy) Data Extraction from Web Tables: the Devil is in the Details
           (View/Download, 226KB)

Thesis Defense, August 2011 (Andrew Zitzelberger) HyKSS: Hybrid Keyword and Semantic Search
           (View/Download, 1986KB)

CPMS Student Research Conference, March 2011 (Aaron Stewart) Automating the Extraction of Genealogical Information from Historical Documents
           (View/Download, 3.9 MB)

CPMS Student Research Conference, March 2011 (Joseph (Jong) Park) Web People Search using Extracted Attributes
           (View/Download, 1.9 MB)

CPMS Student Research Conference, March 2011 (Thomas Packer) Extracting Data from Lists
           (View/Download, 870 KB)

DEG Group Presentation, Feb 2011 (Thomas Packer) Automatic Wrapper Induction: Look Mom, no hands!
           (View/Download, 2.7 MB)

Presentation, February 2011 (Yuri Tijerino) Ontology i18n/L10n
           (View/Download, 81KB)

2010

ACM-L Keynote Presentation, November 2010 (David W. Embley) The Wizard Words and Worlds of ACM-L
           (View/Download, 1.5MB)

Presentation, November 2010 (Yuri Tijerino) C3L Ontology Engineering
           (View/Download, 81KB)

Group Presentation, October 2010 (Andrew Zitzelberger) HyKSS: Midway Presentation
           (View/Download, 81KB)

Thesis Defense, June 2010 (Charla Woodbury) Automatic Extraction From and Reasoning About Genealogical Records: A Prototype
           (View/Download, 1.76MB)

Thesis Proposal, June 2010 (Andrew Zitzelberger) HyKSS: A Multiple Ontology Approach to Hybrid Search
           (View/Download, 493KB)

Research Presentation, June 2010 (Yuri Tijerino) Towards Cross-Lingual Web Services — Hot-e-Mobi: a smart phone application for occasional travelers
           (View/Download, 2.2MB)

Family History Technology Workshop, April 2010 (Charla Woodbury) Automatic Extraction From and Reasoning About Genealogical Records: A Prototype
           (View/Download, 3.5MB)

Family History Technology Workshop, April 2010 (Thomas Packer) Extracting Full Names from Diverse and Noisy Scanned Document Images
           (View/Download, 2.5 MB)

Family History Technology Workshop, April 2010 (Aaron Stewart) Extracting Names Using Layout Clues: An Initial Report
           (View/Download, 25.9MB)

World Wide Web (WWW) Conference's 1st International Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web (MSW 2010) April 2010 (Deryle Lonsdale) Ontologies for Multilingual Extraction
           (View/Download, 25.9MB)

DEG Group Meeting, April 2010 (Thomas Packer) Table Recognition (Detection and Analysis): A Pathetically Incomplete Survey
           (View/Download, 327KB)

DEG Group Meeting March 2010 (Thomas Packer) "Automatic Segmentation of Text into Structured Records" written by V. Borkar, K. Deshmukh, S. Sarawagi
           (View/Download, 1.1MB)

Spring Research Conference Presentation, March 2010 (Andrew Zitzelberger) Combining Keyword and Semantic Search for Best Effort Information Retrieval
           (View/Download, 352KB)

Spring Research Conference Presentation, March 2010 (Thomas L. Packer) IE from Document Images
           (View/Download, 2.2MB)

Spring Research Conference Presentation, March 2010 (Aaron Stewart) Extracting Names Using Layout Clues in Genealogical Books,
           (View/Download, 12.7MB)

To LDS Church History Department and Other Employee, Feb 2010 (Thomas Packer) Extracting Information from Diverse and Noisy Scanned Document Images
           (View/Download, 1.3 MB)

Research directions presented at BYU + UofU NLPFest 2010, February 2010 (Thomas L. Packer) IE from document images
           (View/Download, 1.5MB)

Paper Presentation at FoIKS10, February 2010 (David W. Embley) Theoretical Foundations for Enabling a Web of Knowledge
           (View/Download, 1.5MB)

Paper Presentation for DEG Research Meeting, January 2010 (David W. Embley) Towards Large-Scale, Open-Domain and Ontology-Based Named Entity Classification
           (View/Download, 85KB)

Research Group Meeting Presentation, January 2010 (Deryle W. Lonsdale) Multilingual Extraction Ontologies
           (View/Download, 120KB)

2009

Information Retreival Term Project Presentation, December 2009 (Andrew Zitzelberger) Data Frame Augmentation of Free Form Queries for Constraint Based Document Filtering
           (View/Download, 505KB)

ER2009 Paper Presentation November, 2009 (Stephen W. Liddle) FOCIH: Form-based Ontology Creation and Information Harvesting
           (View/Download, 1.7MB)

ACM-L Paper Presentation November, 2009 (David W. Embley) KBB: A Knowledge-Bundle Builder for Research Studies
           (View/Download, 1.7MB)

Presentation of a paper by a group at Yahoo!, October, 2009 (Andrew Zitzelberger). A Web of Concepts
           (View/Download, 332KB)

Thesis Topic Brainstorming Presentation, October, 2009 (Andrew Zitzelberger). A Framework for Pay-as-you-go Extraction Ontology Based Information Retrieval
           (View/Download, 454KB)

Presentation of a paper on OpenDMAP by Hunter, et al., September, 2009 (David W. Embley) OpenDMAP: An open source, ontology-driven concept analysis engine, with applications to capturing knowledge regarding protein transport, protein interactions and cell-type-specific gene expression
           (View/Download, 408KB)

Presentation of a paper by European researchers on adding linguistic information to ontologies, September, 2009 (Thomas Packer) Toward Linguistically Grounded Ontologies
           (View/Download, 408KB)

Presentation of a paper by UK researchers about named entity recognition from OCR documents, September, 2009 (Thomas Packer) Named Entity Recognition for Digitised Historical Texts
           (View/Download, 858KB)

Presentation given to Lee Jensen about the potential of extraction from OCR data, September, 2009 (Thomas Packer) Ancestry OCR Project
           (View/Download, 518KB)

Presentation on Multi-lingual Extraction Ontologies developed by Yuri's Chinese students, August, 2009 (Yuri Tijerino) Using Data-Extraction Ontologies for Multi-Lingual Interaction with a Mono-Lingual Web Service
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Presentation given to Lee Jensen about data processing in OCR extraction project, August, 2009 (Aaron Stewart) Ancestry.com Data: DEG Results, Observations, & Future Directions
           (View/Download, 2.6MB)

Presentation given to Lee Jensen about data processing in OCR extraction project, August, 2009 (Thomas Packer) Ancestry Ocr Progress: Data
           (View/Download, 784 KB)

Presentation given to Lee Jensen about baseline (dictionary-based) and co-training extraction proposal in OCR extraction project, August, 2009 (Thomas Packer) Ancestry Ocr Progress: Extraction
           (View/Download, 501 KB)

Presentation for TANGO Research Group Seminar at RPI, June 2009 (David W. Embley) WoK: A Web of Knowledge
           (View/Download, 7.9MB)

Presentation for NLP Lab Meeting, May 2009 (Thomas Packer) DEG & NLP
           (View/Download, 662KB)

BYU Spring Research Conference, March 2009 (Thomas Packer) Semi-Supervised, Knowledge-Based Information Extraction for the Semantic Web
           (View/Download, 1.35MB)

Family History Technology Workshop Presentation, March 2009 (Carl Christensen) Domain-Independent Data Extraction: Person Names
           (View/Download, 799KB)

ASWC'08 Presentation, February 2009 (David W. Embley) Semantically Conceptualizing and Annotating Tables
           (View/Download, 1.8MB)

2008

Dissertation Defense, December 2008 (Cui Tao) Ontology Generation, Information Harvesting and Semantic Annotation For Machine-Generated Web Pages
           (View/Download, 4.6MB)

TISP & TISP++ NSF Highlight Image, December 2008, (David W. Embley) TISP & TISP++ Screenshots
           (View/Download, 105KB)

ER08 Panel Presentation, October 2008 (David W. Embley) Semi-automatic Ontology Creation through Conceptual-Model Integration
           (View/Download, 4.7MB)

Colloquium/Dagstuhl Presentation, April 2008 (David W. Embley) WoK: A Web of Knowledge
           (View/Download, 4.7MB)

Invited Talk at UNISCON'08, April 2008, (David W. Embley) Foundational Data Modeling and Schema Transformations for XML Data Engineering
           (View/Download, 2.1MB)

Thesis Defense -- April 2008 (Stephen Lynn) Automating Mini-ontology Generation from Canonical Tables
           (View/Download, 1.76MB)

Thesis Defense Presentation (Zonghui Lian) A Tool to Support Ontology Creation Based on Incremental Mini-Ontology Merging
           (View/Download, 1.30MB)

Spring Research Conference Presentation, 15 March 2008, (Cui Tao) Semi-Automatic Semantic Annotation for Hidden-Web Tables
           (View/Download, 1.5MB)

Family History Technology Workshop, BYU, 13 March 2008, (Jonathan Baker and Jordan Crabtree) Pattern Markup-Language: A tool for simplifying data extraction from semi-structured sources,
           (View/Download, 4.6MB)

Colloquium Talk at the General Earth Environmental Research Laboratories, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, in Kyoto, Japan, 19 January 2008 (David W. Embley) WoK: A Web of Knowledge
           (View/Download, 4.5MB)

Presentation for Kitamura's Research Group in Kobe Sanda, Japan, 17 January 2008 (David W. Embley) WoK: A Web of Knowledge (expanded version)
           (View/Download, 5.7MB)

2007

CS705 Presentation, A Synergistic Semantic Annotation Model December 2007 (Yihong Ding)
           (View/Download, 2.2MB)

Ideas for an NSF CDI Propsal (David W. Embley) From Data to Knowledge
           (View/Download, 1165KB)

ER 2007 Presentation (Stephen W. Liddle): Augmenting Traditional Conceptual Models to Accommodate XML Structures
           (View/Download, 1165KB)

ER07 Presentation (David W. Embley): Table Interpretation by Sibling Page Comparison
           (View/Download, 1.9MB)

ONISW07 Presentation (Stephen W. Liddle): Enriching OWL with Instance Recognition Semantics for Automated Semantic Annotation
           (View/Download, 162KB)

CMLSA07 Presentation (David W. Embley): Seed-based Generation of Personalized Bio-Ontologies for Information Extraction
           (View/Download, 366KB)

Thesis Proposal -- October 2007 (Stephen Lynn) Automating Mini-ontology Generation from Canonical Tables
           (View/Download, 1.17MB)

Dissertation Defense (Muhammed J. Al-Muhammed): Ontology Aware Software Service Agents: Meeting Ordinary User Needs on the Semantic Web
           (View/Download, 644KB)

Presentation at ICWS 2007 (Muhammed J. Al-Muhammed and Yuri A. Tijerino): Bringing Web Principles to Services: Ontology-Based Web Services
           (View/Download, 609KB)

Dissertation Defense Presentation (Reema Al-Kamha): Conceptual XML for Systems Analysis
           (View/Download, 2.32MB)

Presentation at ICDE 2007 (David W. Embley): Ontology-Based Constraint Recognition for Free-Form Service Requests
           (View/Download, 310KB)

Student Presentations -- Spring Research Conference, 2007:

Augmenting Traditional Conceptual Models to Accommodate XML Structural Constructs by Reema Al-Kamha
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Two-Level Semantic Annotation Model by Yihong Ding
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(Muhammed J. Al-Muhammed): Bringing Web Principles to Services: Ontology-Based Web Services
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Ontology Generation Based on a User-Specified Ontology Seed by Cui Tao
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A Tool to Support Ontology Creation Based on Incremental Mini-Ontology Merging by Zonghui Lian
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Master Thesis Proposal Presentation (Charla Woodbury): Automatic Extraction of Individual and Family Information from Primary Genealogical Records
           (View/Download, 3.2MB)

Master Thesis Proposal Presentation (Hilton Campbell): Enabling the Distributed Family Tree
           (View/Download, 237KB)

2006

ER 2006 Program Presentation (David W. Embley): ER 2006: Interesting Facts and Figures about the Program
           (View/Download, 275KB)

ISWC06 Poster (Cui Tao): Toward Making Online Biological Data Machine Understandable
           (View/Download, 2,101KB)

BIOT 06 poster Presentation (Cui Tao): HTML Table Interpretation by Sibling Page Comparison in the Molecular Biology Domain
           (View/Download, 752KB)

Master Thesis Proposal Presentation (Zonghui Lian): A Tool to Support Ontology Creation Based on Incremental Mini-Ontology Merging
           (View/Download, 256KB)

Presentation at ASWC'06 (David W. Embley): Automatic Creation and Simplified Querying of Semantic Web Content: An Approach Based on Information-Extraction Ontologies
           (View/Download, 1.4MB)

Thesis Defense Presentation (Mark Vickers): Ontology-Based Free-Form Query Processing for the Semantic Web
           (View/Download, 1.98MB)

Presentation at CAiSE'06 (David W. Embley): Resolving Under Constrained and Over Constrained Systems of Conjunctive Constraints for Service Requests
           (View/Download, 651KB)

Colloquium Talk - 2006 (David W. Embley): Semantic Understanding: An Approach Based on Information Extraction Ontologies
           (View/Download, 2.159MB)

Student Presentations -- Spring Research Conference, 2006:

Table Structure Understanding by Sibling Page Comparison by Cui Tao
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Semi-Automatic Generation of Mini-Ontologies from Canonicalized Relational Tables by Chris Hathaway
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A Tool to Support Ontology Creation based on Incremental Mini-Ontology Merging by Zonghui Lian
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Ontology-Based free-Form Query Processing for the Semantic Web by Mark Vickers
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Ontology-Based Constraint Recognition in Free-Form Service Requests by Mumhammed Al-Muhammed
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Resolving Underconstrained and Overconstrained Systems of conjunctive Constraints for Service Requests by Mumhammed Al-Muhammed
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Transforming XML Schema to Conceptual XML by Reema Al-Kamha
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OWL-AA: Enriching OWL with Instance Recognition Semantics for Automated Semantic Annotation by Yihong Ding
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Thesis Proposal (Mark Vickers): Ontology-Based Free-Form Query Processing for the Semantic Web
           (View/Download, 756KB)

Thesis Defense Presentation (Joe Zhou): Generating Data-Extraction Ontologies By Example
           (View/Download, 756KB)

Colloquium Talk (David W. Embley): Semantic Understanding: An Approach Based on Information Extraction Ontologies
           (View/Download, 4.426KB)

2005

ER2005 Conference Presentation (David W. Embley): Conceptual Model Based Semantic Web Services
           (View/Download, 276KB)

Dissertation Proposal (Yihong Ding): Annotating Documents for the Semantic Web Using Data-Extraction Ontologies
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Research Area Exam (Yihong Ding): Annotation for the Semantic Web
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Student Presentations -- CS751R, Spring 2005:

Recognition and satisfaction of Constraints in Free-Form Task Specification by Muhammed Al-Muhammed
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Simplifying Family History Research for the Naive User: Building an Ontology and Expert Logic for Searching Danish Genealogical Primary Records by Charla Woodbury
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Dissertation Proposal (Cui Tao): Toward Making Online Biological Data machine Understandable
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Research Area Exam (Cui Tao): Data Extraction and Integration for Biological Information
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Dissertation Proposal (Muhammed Al-Muhammed): Ontology Aware Software Service Agents: Meeting Ordinary User Needs on the Semantic Web
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Research Area Exam (Muhammed Al-Muhammed): Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
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Dissertation Proposal (Reema Al-Kamha): Conceptual XML for Systems Analysis
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Dissertation Research Area Overview (Reema Al-Kamha): Software Systems Analysis: A Research Area Overview
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Student Presentations -- Spring Research Conference, 2005:

Semantic Web Queries by Mark Vickers
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Source Page Understanding for Heterogeneous Molecular Biological Data by Cui Tao
           (View/Download)

Ontology Aware Software Service Agents: Meeting Ordinary User Needs on the Semantic Web by Muhammed Al-Muhammed
           (View/Download)

Conceptual XML for Systems Analysis by Reema Al-Kamha
           (View/Download)

Family History Research on the Semantic Web: Building a Semantic Prototype for Danish Genealogical Research by Charla Woodbury
           (View/Download)

A New Web Semantic Annotator Enabling a Machine Understandable Web by Yihong Ding
           (View/Download)

Dagstuhl Presentation (David W. Embley): Toward Tomorrow's Semantic Web: An Approach Based on Information Extraction Ontologies
           (View/Download, 6.3MB)

Thesis Defense Presentation (Alan Wessman): A Framework for Extraction Plans and Heuristics in an Ontology-Based Data-Extraction System
           (View/Download, 1.2MB)

Thesis Defense Presentation (Troy Walker): Automating the Extraction of Domain-Specific Information from the Web -- A Case Study for the Genealogical Domain
           (View/Download, 1.2MB)

Colloquium Talk (David W. Embley): What Do You Want--Semantic Understanding?
           (View/Download, 991KB)

2004

ER2004 Conference Presentation (Stephen W. Liddle): Enterprise Modeling with Conceptual XML
           (View/Download, 507KB)

CoMWIM 2004 Workshop Presentation (Stephen W. Liddle): Query Rewriting for Extracting Data behind HTML Forms
           (View/Download, 618KB)

Thesis Defense Presentation (Reema Al-Kamha): Grouping Search-Engine Returned Citations for Person-Name Queries
           (View/Download, 3.19MB)

Thesis Defense Presentation (Muhammed Al-Muhammed): Dynamic Matchmaking Between Messages and Services in Multi-Agent Systems
           (View/Download, 428KB)

Thesis Defense Presentation (Xueqi Chen): Query Rewriting for Extracting Data Behind HTML Forms
           (View/Download, 602KB)

Presentation at 4th Family History Technology Conference (Troy Walker): Automating the Extraction of Genealogical Information from the Web
           (View/Download, 895KB)
Student Presentations -- Spring Research Conference, 2004:

Logic Form Identification of Medical Clinical Trials by Clint Tustison
           (View/Download, 123KB)

Data Integration and Extraction over Molucular Biological Data by Cui Tao
           (View/Download, 1.1MB)

Dynamic Matchmaking Between Messages and Services in Multi-Agent Systems by Muhammed Al-Muhammed
           (View/Download, 308KB)

Grouping Search-Engine Returned Citations for Person Name Queries by Reema Al-Kamha
           (View/Download, 440KB)

Automating the Extraction of Domain-Specific Information from the Web—A Case Study for the Genealogical Domain by Troy Walker
           (View/Download, 835KB)

Schema Mapping: Experiences and Lessons Learned by Yihong Ding
           (View/Download, 1.8MB)

Thesis Proposal Presentation (Troy Walker): Automating the Extraction of Domain Specific Information from the Web
           (View/Download, 1.2MB)
Keynote Presentation at the 15th Australasian Database Conference (David W. Embley): What Do You Want---Semantic Understanding? (You've Got to be Kidding)
           (View/Download, 1.1MB)
Colloquium Presentation at Massey University (David W. Embley): Automating Schema Matching
           (View/Download, 1.1MB)

2003

Paper Presentation at the 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (Yuri Tijerino): TANGO: Table ANalysis for Generating Ontologies
           (View/Download, 506KB)
Poster Presentation at the American Medical Informatics Symposium (Craig Parker): Generating Medical Logic Modules for Clinical Trial Eligibility
           (View/Download, 345KB)
AOIS03 Workshop Presentation (Muhammed Al-Muhammed): Dynamic Matchmaking between Messages and Services in Multi-Agent Systems
           (View/Download, 173KB)

Thesis Defense Presentation (Cui Tao): Schema Matching and Data Extraction over HTML Tables
           (View/Download, 2MB)

Thesis Defense Presentation (Lars Olson): Querying Disjunctive Databases in Polynomial Time
           (View/Download, 249KB)
Dissertation Defense Presentation (Li Xu): Source Discovery and Schema Mapping for Data Integration
           (View/Download, 1.6MB)

Conference Presentation (David W. Embley): Producing XML Documents with Guaranteed "Good" Properties
           (View/Download, 245MB)

Thesis Defense Presentation (Yihong Ding): Semiautomatic Generation of Resilient Data-Extraction Ontologies
           (View/Download, 338KB)

DEG Architecture Discussion: Working with the Ontos Architecture by Alan Wessman
           (View/Download, 65KB)
DASFAA Conference Presentation: Discovering Direct and Indirect Matches for Schema Elements by David W. Embley
           (View/Download, 696KB)
Symposium Presentation: Ontologically-based Searching for Jobs in Linguistics by Deryle Lonsdale
           (View/Download, 551KB)

Presentation at the Workshop on Technology for Family History and Genealogical Research, 2003: Results of Using an Efficient Algorithm to Query Disjunctive Genealogical Data by Lars Olson
           (View/Download, 175KB)

Student Presentations -- Spring Research Conference, 2003:

An Abstract Framework for Extraction Plans and Heuristics in a Data Extraction System by Alan Wessman
           (View/Download, 1.3MB)

Generating Medical Logic Modules for Clinical Trail Eligibility by Craig Parker
           (View/Download, 295KB)

Querying the Web for Genealogical Information by Troy Walker
           (View/Download, 1.1MB)

Partitioning Search-Engine Returned Citations for Proper-Noun Queries by Reema Al-Kamha
           (View/Download, 436KB)

Query Rewriting for Extracting Data Behind HTML Forms by Xueqi Chen
           (View/Download, 496KB)

Combining the Best of Global-as-View and Local-as-View for Data Integration by Li Xu
           (View/Download, 180KB)

Converting Disjunctive Data to Disjunctive Graphs by Lars Olson
           (View/Download, 90KB)

Data-Extraction Ontology Generation by Example by Yuanqiu Zhou
           (View/Download, 574KB)

Semiautomatic Generation of Resilient Data Extraction Ontologies by Yihong Ding
           (View/Download, 2.2MB)

Schema Matching and Data Extraction over HTML Tables by Cui Tao
           (View/Download, 2.2MB)

Extracting Predicates from Semi-structured and Unstructured Texts by Clint Tustison
           (View/Download, 71KB)

Matchmaking Between Messages and Services in Multi-Agent Systems by Muhammed Al-Muhammed
           (View/Download, 209KB)

Thesis Defense Presentation (Tim Chartrand): Ontology-Based Extraction of RDF Data from the World Wide Web
           (View/Download, 2.24MB)

Colloquium: Automating Schema Matching
           (View/Download, 1.04MB)

Research Proposal: Data Frames Version 3 Proposal
           (View/Download, 99KB)
Thesis Proposal Presentation: Partitioning Search-Engine Returned Citations for Proper-Noun Queries
           (View/Download, 550KB)
Thesis Proposal Presentation: Generating Medical Logic Modules for Clinical Trial Eligibility
           (View/Download, 375KB)
Thesis Proposal Presentation: A Framework for Dynamic Matchmaking between Messages and Services in Multi-Agent Systems
           (View/Download, 98KB)
Paper presentation at Interface 2003 (Stephen W. Liddle with John S. Lawson) Implementing Legacy Statistical Algorithms in a Spreadsheet Environment
           (View/Download, 685KB)

2002

Workshop Presentation, Symposium on Document Engineering (DoCEng 2002): Recognizing Records from the Extracted Cells of Microfilm Tables
           (View/Download, 380KB)
Thesis Proposal Presentation: Data-Extraction Ontology Generation by Example
           (View/Download, 574KB)
Thesis Proposal Presentation: Ontology-Based Extraction of RDF Data from the World Wide Web
           (View/Download, 7.4KB)
Thesis Proposal Presentation: Query Rewriting for Extracting Data Behind HTML Forms
           (View/Download, 1.1M)
Workshop Presentation, AAAI Workshop on the Semantic Web and Lexical Resources, with AAAI 2002): Peppering Knowledge Sources with SALT
           (View/Download, 380KB)
Presentation at ER2002: Automatically Extracting Ontologically Specified Data from HTML Tables with Unknown Structure
           (View/Download, 592K)
Presentation at ER2002 Workshop: Extracting Data Behind Web Forms
           (View/Download, 23.3MB)
Thesis Proposal Presentation: Schema Matching and Data Extraction over HTML Tables            (View/Download, 1.4M)
Colloquium '02 Talk: Automating Schema Matching for Data Integration
           (View/Download 1,042K)
Class Presentation: Extracting Information from Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Ontologically Specified Target Views
           (View/Download 558K)
Presentation at the Workshop on Technology for Family History and Genealogical Research, 2002: Efficiently Querying Contradictory and Uncertain Genealogical Data by Lars Olson
           (View/Download, 150KB)

Student Presentations -- Spring Research Conference, 2002:

Extending the Relational Data Model for Disjunctive Genealogical Data by Lars Olson
           (Corel Presentations, 336 K) or (PDF, 275 K)

Scheme Matching and Data Extraction over HTML Tables from Heterogeneous Sources by Cui Tao
           (View/Download, 298K)

Conceptual-Model-Based Web Data Extraction by Example by Joe Zhou
           (View/Download, 575K)

Direct and Indirect Matching of Schema Elements for Data Integration on the Web by Li Xu
           (View/Download, 244K)

Extracting RDF Data from Unstructured Sources Based on an RDF Target Schema by Tim Chartrand
           (View/Download, 288K)

Semiautomatic Generation of Resilient Data Extraction Ontologies by Yihong Ding
           (View/Download, 288K)

2001

Workshop Presentation (DASWIS'01, with ER2001): On the Automatic Extraction of Data from the Hidden Web
           (View/Download, 401KB)
Conference Presentation (ER2001): Recognizing Ontology-Applicable Multiple-Record Web Documents
           (View/Download, 1.42M)
Thesis Defense Presentation: A Binary-Categorization Approach for Classifying Multiple-Record Web Documents Using a Probabilistic Retrieval Model
           (View/Download, 1.42M)
Colloquium Presentation: Computer Science Research for Family History and Genealogy
           (View/Download, 3.5M)
Thesis Proposal Presentation: Semiautomatic Generation of Data Extraction Ontologies
           (View/Download, 277k)
Workshop Presentation (WIIW2001): Multifaceted Exploitation of Metadata for Attribute Match Discovery in Information Integration
           (View/Download, 355K)
Presentations at the Workshop on Technology for Family History and Genealogical Research 2001

Automatically Identifying Record Patterns from the Extracted Data Fields of Genealogical Microfilm by Kenneth Tubbs
           (View/Download, 2.11M)
Toward Automatic Processing and Indexing of Microfilm (slide show) by Kenneth Tubbs, Heath Nielson and Douglas Kennard
           (View/Download, 2.86M)

Student Presentations -- Spring-Research-Conference, 2001:

Semi-Automatically Generating a Data-Extraction Ontology by Yihong Ding
           (View/Download, 142K)
Multifaceted Exploitation of Metadata for Attribute Match Discovery in Information Integration by Li Xu
           (View/Download, 355K)
Automating the Extraction of Data Behind Web Forms by Tony Yau
           (View/Download, 1.4M)
Constraint Violations in Data Storage by Lars Olson
           (Corel Presentations, 190 K) or (PDF, 72 K) or (PowerPoint, 136 K)

Data Extraction from HTML Tables by Cui Tao
           (View/Download, 1.3M)
Automatically Identifying Record Patterns from the Extracted Data Fields of Genealogical Microfilm by Kenneth Tubbs
           (View/Download, 446K)

Thesis Defense Presentation: Identifying Temporal Phrases in Natural Language
           (View/Download)
Colloquium '00 Talk: Extracting and Structuring Web Data
           (View/Download 390K)
Thesis Proposal Presentation: Ontology-Based Binary-Categorization of Multiple-Record Web Documents Using a Probabilistic Retrieval Model
           (View/Download)
Thesis Proposal Presentation: Mapping Target Schemas to Source Schemas Using WordNet Hierarchies
           (View/Download)
Thesis Proposal Presentation: Automating the Extraction of Data Behind Web Forms
           (View, Download 771K)

2000

WebDB2000 Presentation: Record Location and Reconfiguration in Unstructured Multiple-Record Web Documents
           (View, Download 281K)

Student Presentations -- Spring-Research-Conference

March 2000

Sentence Boundary Detection System

Wendy Chen

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99KB

A Demo for Web Data Extraction

Yihong Ding

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220K

Filtering Multiple-Record Web Documents Based on Application Ontologies

Li Xu

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211K

Automatic Extraction of Information Behind Web Forms Based on Application Ontologies

Sai Ho Yau

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1,233K

1999

CIKM'99 Presentation: Automatically Extracting Structure and Data from Business Reports
           (View, Download 175K)
SIGMOD'99 Presentation: Record-Boundary Discovery in Web Documents
           (View, Download 141K)
CIKM'98 Presentation: Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Structuring
           (View, Download 128K)
Colloquium '99 Talk: Extracting and Structuring Web Data
           (View, Download 124K)
Ontos Project -- an informal presentation on some open issues
           (View, Download 49K)
Stephen Jiang's Thesis Presentation: Record-Boundary Discovery in Web Documents
           (View, Download 131K)

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