Artificial Intelligence and Link Analysis

Papers from the 1998 Fall Symposium

David Jensen and Henry Goldberg, Program Cochairs

Technical Report FS-98-01. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California

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Foreword / 1
David Jensen and Henry Goldberg

Hydra: A Database System with Facilities for Link Analysis / 1
Robert Ayres

Coreference as the Foundations for Link Analysis Over Free Text Databases / 8
Breck Baldwin and Amit Bagga

Using Statistical and Relational Methods to Characterize Hyperlink Paths / 14
Mark Craven

Proliferation Import Model / 21
Anthony Ciervo

Towards a Theory for a Sociable Software Architecture / 27
Emmett Davis and Bonnie Holte Bennett

Inductive Inference and Link Analysis / 35
Leona F. Fass

Restructuring Transactional Data for Link Analysis in the FinCEN AI System / 38
Henry G. Goldberg and Raphael W. H. Wong

Restructuring Databases for Knowledge Discovery by Consolidation and Link Formation / 47
Henry G. Goldberg and Ted E. Senator

How to Introduce Artificial Intelligence to Link Analysts / 53
Mike Hunter

Statistical Challenges to Inductive Inference in Linked Data / 59
David Jensen

Automatic Information Extraction From Documents: A Tool for Intelligence and Law Enforcement Analysts / 63
Richard Lee