Title:   Toward Large-Scale Integration: Building a MetaQuerier for the Deep Web
Speaker: Kevin Chang (UIUC)

Abstract:

Over the past few years, the Web has deepened dramatically. Much
information is now hidden on the "deep Web," behind the query
interfaces of numerous searchable databases-- Our 2004 survey
estimated 450,000 online databases and 1,258,000 query interfaces.
To enable effective access to the deep Web, the MetaQuerier project
at UIUC aims at both finding and querying such online databases. In
this talk, I will discuss a few "lessons" learned to date, focusing
on issues and insights in building a large-scale integration system.
In particular, I will argue that, while the deep Web challenges us
for large scale integration, the challenge itself presents a unique
opportunity for shallow, holistic integration approaches-- We thus
propose to tackle the "deep" semantics by exploring "shallow"
syntactic and statistic clues hidden across large scale of sources,
holistically.

Project URL: http://metaquerier.cs.uiuc.edu