Re: festivus for the rest of us (or what/why you ate today) and papers

[Viet Hung Nguyen <hung@asu.edu>]

Happy Deepavali !
According to what Dr Rao described, this festival is somewhat similar to Trung
Thu (mid Autumn) festival in Vietnam. This festival is on August 15th (lunar
calendar) which is around mid September in Gregory's calendar. Trung thu
basically is for children. On that day which is full moon too, they eat two
kinds of cake ( I don't know how to translate the names into English),
prematured rice ("Co^'m") and grapefruit as well as some other fruits.
Thanks for your cakes today :)

About the paper links:
I found two relevant papers that we may like to take a look about NBC.
1. Learning to Map between Ontologies on the semantic Web (A Doan et al)
at http://www-faculty.cs.uiuc.edu/~anhai/papers/www02.pdf

In this paper, the content learner is essentially  BNC. The authors noticed
that this
learner works well on long textual elements but less effective with short,
numeric elements (where as in te Domingos and Pazzani paper, they use Gaussian
distribution to deal with numeric attribute and stil got reasonable result).

2. Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A machine learning Approach
(A doan et al) at
http://www-faculty.cs.uiuc.edu/~anhai/papers/sigmod01.ps

In this paper they dicuss XML learner, which extents the content learner for
hierachical
text data (structured text).

These two papers actually can be seen as two versions of a complex work that
employs NBC and ML techniques in Data Integration.

Regards

Viet Hung

PS: The Muse is my favourite too.

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Subbarao Kambhampati wrote:

> 
> The festival is Deepavali (the "dee" to be pronounced as
> "thee")--which is a very popular a festival of lights in India. It is
> celebrated on a new moon day (which it is today) in late october/early
> november (being a festival celebtrated by lunar calendar, its
> placement on solar calendar varies from year to year).
> 
> In addition to eating a whole lot, and dressing up, the main activity
> on the deepawali day is the evening fireworks.  In the evening all
> houses are decorated with "deep" (or earthen lamps, thus the name),
> and kids of all ages light up country fireworks in front of their
> homes (thus creating the perfect vision of hell for the local fire
> department ;-).  It is one festival that is celebrated pretty much
> across India.  (Its historical importance also includes the fact that
> my son was born on a deepawali night.)
> 
> The stuff you ate are:
> 
>  Laddu (the spherical ones) 
>  Mysorepak (the rectangualar ones)
> 
> Both are made of lentil flour (a specific type of lentils called
> "chana") and sugar. Both sweets are popular in several parts of India
> (with the noted exception of Bengal--my wife would not touch a sweet
> unless it is made with milk).  The salty thing is a generic salty
> cracker--again made with lentil flour.
> 
> My father can make both of them at home. I am quite familiar, in
> general outlines at least, with the theory of how to make them. Have
> no implementation background though.  In this particular case, my only
> "toils" involved waiting over at The Muse with an espresso this
> morning, until the Indian sweet store nearby ("Kohinoor" on the
> intersection of Lemon and Terrace; who make them on the premises)
> opened. 
> 
> 
> Happy Deepawali!
> 
> rao
> [Nov  4, 2002]
> 
> ps: Other references today
>  
> Donald Knuth's request for CS researcher's names in non-latin
> alphabet:
> 
>   http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/help.html
> 
>  
>