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# VLDS 2011
Very Large Data Search

### Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Searching and Integrating New Web Data Sources - Very Large Data Search

### Seattle, WA, USA, September 2, 2011.

Edited by

### Marco Brambilla *
Fabio Casati **
Stefano Ceri *

* Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Milano, Italy
** Universita' di Trento, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Povo (TN), Italy

## Table of Contents

- Preface 1-2
  Marco Brambilla, Fabio Casati, Stefano Ceri

### Session 1: Invited talks

1. Information Seeking: Convergence of Search, Recommendations and Advertising (invited talk) Hector Garcia-Molina
2. Towards an Eco-System of Structured Data on the Web (invited talk) Alon Halevy

### Session 2: Personal and Social Search

3. On Principles of Egocentric Person Search in Social Networks 3-6
   Sara Cohen, Benny Kimelfeld, Georgia Koutrika, Jan Vondrak
4. The Power of Integrated Abstraction for Data-Centric Human/Machine Computations 7-10
   Atsuyuki Morishima, Norihide Shinagawa, Shoji Mochizuki

### Session 3: Data Extraction and Linking

5. Thematic Exploration of Linked Data 11-16
   Silvana Castano, Alfio Ferrara, Stefano Montanelli
6. Generating Linked Data by Inferring the Semantics of Tables 17-22
   Varish Mulwad, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
7. Contextual Data Extraction and Instance-Based Integration 23-29
   Lorenzo Blanco, Valter Crescenzi, Paolo Merialdo, Paolo Papotti
8. Growing Triples on Trees: an XML-RDF Hybrid Model for Annotated Documents 30-33
   Francois Goasdoue, Konstantinos Karanasos, Yannis Katsis, Julien Leblay, Ioana Manolescu, Stamatis Zampetakis

### Session 4: Using Ranking for Selection, Visualization, and Valorization

9. Searching Social Updates for Topic-centric Entities 34-39
   Maria Christoforaki, Ivie Erunse, Cong Yu
10. Enhanced Visualization for Web-Based Summaries 40-45
    Brent Wenerstrom, Mehmed Kantardzic
11. Designing a Revenue Mechanism for Federated Search Engines 46-51
    Laura Ernesta Bonetti, Sofia Ceppi, Nicola Gatti

### Session 5: New and News Applications

12. Dynamic Visualizations for Multi-Domain Search Results 52-57
    Alessandro Bozzon, Luca Cioria, Piero Fraternali, Maristella Matera
13. Search Computing Meets Data Extraction 58-61
    Alessandro Bozzon, Tim Furche, Giorgio Orsi, Chiara Pasini, Luca Tettamanti, Salvatore Vadacca
14. Use of Query Similarity for Improving Presentation of News Verticals 62-67
    Annie Louis, Eric Crestan, Youssef Billawala, Rao Shen, Fernando Diaz, Jean-Francois Crespo

08-Aug-2012: submitted by Marco Brambilla
09-Aug-2012: published on CEUR-WS.org