Bulletin of the Technical Committee on

Data Engineering

December 2005 ... Vol. 28 No. 4 ……………………………………………… IEEE Computer Society

Letters
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief ................................................................................................................ David Lomet    1
Letter from the Special Issue Editor ..............................................................................................Gultekin Özsoyoglu    2

Special Issue on Searching and Mining Literature Digital Libraries Scaling Information Extraction to Large Document Collections .......................................................Eugene Agichtein    3
Fast and Furious Text Mining ...............................................................................................................Joel D. Martin   11
Evaluating Publication Similarity Measures .............................................................................................................
................................................Sulieman Bani-Ahmad, Ali Cakmak, Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, and Abdullah Al-Hamdani   21
Hard Queries can be Addressed with Query Splitting Plus Stepping Stones and Pathways ..........................................
...............................................................................................Xiaoyan Yu, Fernando Das-Neves, and Edward A. Fox   29
Ten-Year Cross-Disciplinary Comparison of the Growth of Open Access and How it Increases Research Citation
       Impact ..........................................................................................Chawki Hajjem, Stevan Harnad, Yves Gingras   39
A System of User-Guided Biological Literature Search Engine ..........................................Meng Hu and Jiong Yang   47

Announcements and Notices
VLDB'06 Conference Call for Papers ..........................................................................................................................   53

ICDE'05 Data Engineering Conference Conference .............................................................................................backcover