Research

Research Interests

 - Data Cleaning and Data Integration
 - Text Data Management
 - Web Information Retrieval


Projects


Duplicate Detection System for String Data


Linked Movie Data Base

Publications


Refereed Papers:

Current Research:
 - Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates, SIGMOD'2007 (Acceptance Rate: 14.6%)
 - Accuracy of Approximate String Joins Using Grams, QDB'07 (VLDB'07 Workshop)

Previous Work:
 - Language Identification from Text Using HMMs, CSICC'2007 (acceptance rate: 26%)
 - A Hybrid Approach for Refreshing Web Page Repositories, DASFAA'2005
  (With M. Ghodsi, S. Kamali and M. Monemizadeh) (acceptance rate: 28%)
 - Agile Requirements Engineering (in Persian) CSICC'2005 (acceptance rate: 27%)

Theses:
 - Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates, M.Sc. Thesis
 - Refreshing Web Page Repositories, B.Sc. Thesis

Articles:
 - Agile Requirements Engineering (extended version, in Persian)
   Gozaresh Computer Magazine, Issue 163, September 2005
  (Publisher: Informatics Society of Iran - ISI)
 - E-readiness: Measures, Obstacles and Iran's Situation (in Persian)
   Gozaresh Computer Magazine, Issue 164, November 2005
  (Publisher: Informatics Society of Iran - ISI)


Teaching

Fall 2005: CSC467 Compilers and Interpreters Tutorial
Winter 2006: CSCA02 Tutorial
Fall 2006:  CSCA02 Tutorial
Winter 2007:  CSCA02 Tutorial
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Other Activities

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Contact Info

Office Address:
Bahen Center for Information Technology
University of Toronto
40 St. George Street
Toronto ON M5S 2E4

Office: BA7252 (D7)
Lab: BA5160 (D8)
Mailing Address:
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Room 3302
10 King's College Rd.
Toronto ON M5S 3G4
E-mail: oktie <at> cs.toronto.edu