Digital Government:

Project Update - April 2004

• William W. Cohen and Sunita Sarawagi (2004). Exploiting Dictionaries in Named Entity Extraction: Combining SemiMarkov Extraction Processes and Data Integration Methods. Submitted to SIG-KDD 2004.
  
  
• Nicholas Eriksson, Stephen E. Fienberg, Alessandro Rinaldo and Seth Sullivant (2004). On the Nonexistence of Maximum Likelihood Estimates for Hierarchical Log-linear Models. Submitted for publication to Journal of Symbolic Computation.
  
  
• Stephen E. Fienberg and Aleksandra B. Slavkovic Making the Release of Confidential Data from Multi-Way Tables Count. Submitted to Chance.
  
  
• Reiter, J. P. (2004). New approaches to data dissemination: A glimpse into the future (?). Submitted to Chance.
  
  
• Pradeep Ravikumar and William W. Cohen (2004). A Hierarchical Graphical Model for Record Linkage. Submitted to UAI 2004.
  
  
• Aleksandra B. Slavkovic and Seth Sullivant (2004). The Space of Compatible Full Conditionals is a Unimodular Toric Variety. Submitted for publication to Journal of Symbolic Computation.

Stephen E. Fienberg

"Characterizing Probability Distributions Associated With Multi-way Contingency Tables,"
Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University, April 2004

Jerome P. Reiter

"Data Confidentiality, Data Integration, and Secure Computation."
Invited Talk, Electronic Frontier Foundation panel, NISS, April 2004