Digital Government:

Project Update - July 2003

• The swapper runs on the user's machine, rather than as a Web Service, allowing use on real data.
  
  
• Scripting capability for extensive studies, for example including multiple rates and all choices of one- and two-attribute swaps.
  
  
• Capability to handle weighted records.

• W. Cohen, P. Ravikumar and S.E. Fienberg "A comparison of string metrics for matching names and records tasks." To appear in KDD 2003 Workshop on Data Cleaning, Record Linkage, and Object Consolidation.
  
  
• M. Bilenko, W. Cohen, S. E. Fienberg, R.J. Mooney, and P. Ravikumar. "Adaptive name-matching in information integration." To appear in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on Information Integration on the Web.
  
  
• W. Cohen, P. Ravikumar, and S.E. Fienberg (2003). "A comparison of string distance metrics for name-matching tasks." IJCAI 2003 Workshop on Information Integration on the Web. Final version available at http://www.isi.edu/info-agents/workshops/ijcai03/proceedings.htm

• Aleksandra Slavkovic, "Making inferences from arbitrary sets of conditionals and marginals for contingency tables," SAMSI Workshop on Stochastic Computation, June 27, 2003
  
  
• Aleksandra Slavkovic, "An Application of Algebraic Geometry in Statistical Disclosure Limitation," International Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra, Raleigh, NC, July 29, 2003