Bulletin of the Technical Committee on

Data Engineering

December 2006 ... Vol. 29 No. 4 ……………………………………………… IEEE Computer Society

Letters
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief ................................................................................................................ David Lomet    1
Letter from the Special Issue Editor .............................................................................................................Dan Suciu    2

Special Issue on Web-Scale Data, Systems, and Semantics Data Management Issues in Supporting Large-Scale Web Services ..................................................................
..............................................Philip A. Bernstein, Nishant Dani, Badriddine Khessib, Ramesh Manne, David Shutt     3
Content, Metadata, and Behavioral Information: Directions for Yahoo! Research ...........The Yahoo! Research Team   10
Structured Data Meets the Web: A Few Observations ............................................................................................
...............Jayant Madhavan, Alon Halevy, Shirley Cohen, Xin (Luna) Dong, Shawn R. Jeffery, David Ko, Cong Yu   19
A funny thing happened on the way to a billion .... ...................................................................................Alfredo Alba,
.............Varun Bhagwan, Mike Ching, Alex Cozzi, Raj Desai, Daniel Gruhl, Kevin Haas, Linda Kato, Jeff Kusnitz,
.....Bryan Langston, Ferdy Nagy, Linda Nguyen, Jan Pieper, Savitha Srinivasan, Anthony Stuart and Renjie Tang   27
Web Information Extraction and User Modeling: Towards Closing the Gap ...................................Eugene Agichtein   37
Structured Queries Over Web Text ...................................................Michael J. Cafarella, Oren Etzioni, Dan Suciu   45

Conference and Journal Notices
ICDE 2007 Conference ........................................................................................................backcover