1. One Platform for Mining Structured and Unstructured Data: Dream or Reality?
Moderator: Dina Bitton, SAP Labs
Panelists:
Laura Haas, IBM
Rahim Yaseen, SAP Labs
Jay Shanmugasudaram - Yahoo Labs
VLDB 2006 – Seoul

2. Analysis of Structured and Unstructured Data
Richer Semantics
Accuracy
Simplicity
Flexibility (fuzzy, wild card..)
Structured Data
QUERY
SEARCH
Unstructured Data

3. Analysis of Structured and Unstructured Data – One Platform?
Query Analyze
SEARCH
Unstructured
Transform unstructured
Into structured
Index and load

4. Initial Questions
How do we integrate structured and unstructured data?
Can we source, transform and analyze structured data alongside with unstructured data?
Can we retain the simplicity of the search interface and yet provide some of the sophistication of structured data analysis?

5. New Questions
What class of applications demand both structured and unstructured data? How will they integrate both? (Laura)
Where do the techniques for transforming unstructured data to structured data fall short? (Yaseen)
Who can best search/query over structured and unstructured data, a DBMS or a search engine? (Jay)