Frederick H. LOCHOVSKY; Professor (PhD, Toronto, 1978)

Professor Lochovsky has been a Professor of Computer Science and Management at the University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada), where he began his academic career. He was also, concurrently, Associate Director of the Computer Systems Research Group, an interdisciplinary group of mainly computer science and electrical engineering faculty formed to conduct research and development into computer systems and their applications. He directed the database and office systems research group at Toronto. At HKUST he has been the Associate Dean of the School of Engineering (1992-93), the Director of Undergraduate Studies (1991-92) and the Director of Postgraduate Studies (1994-97) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He has been a Visiting Scientist at IBM Research Laboratory (San Jose, California, USA) in 1983 and at The Boeing Company (Seattle, Washington, USA) during 1997-98.

Research interests: Hidden web search and data integration; information systems design; database design; knowledge representation.

Selected Publications

Su, W., Wang, J. and Lochovsky, F.H., “Record matching over query results from multiple web databases,” IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2009.
Su, W., Wang, J. and Lochovsky, F.H., “ODE: Ontology-assisted data extraction,” ACM Trans. on Database Systems, 2009.
Hu, J., Wang, G., Lochovsky, F.H., Sun, J.-T. and Chen, Z., “Understanding user’s query intent with Wikipedia,” Proc. 18^th Intl. World Wide Web Conf., 2009.
Su, W., Wang, J., and Lochovsky, F.H., “Automatic hierarchical classification of structured deep web databases,” Proc. 7^th Intl. Conf. on Web Information Systems Engineering, 210-221, 2006.
Su, W., Wang, J. and Lochovsky, F.H., “Holistic schema matching for web query interfaces,” Proc. 10^th Intl. Conf. on Extending Database Technology, 77-94, 2006.
Pun, J.C.C. and Lochovsky, F.H., “Finding high-quality web pages using cohesiveness,” Proc. 10^th Intl. Conf. on Information Quality, 247-261, 2005.
Pun, J.C.C. and Lochovsky, F.H., "Ranking search results by web quality dimensions," J. Web Engineering 3(3&4), 216-235, 2004.
Wang, J., Wen, J. Lochovsky, F.H. and Ma, W. "Instance-based schema matching for web databases by domain-specific query probing," Proc. 30^th Intl. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases, 408-419, 2004.
Wang, J. and Lochovsky, F.H., "Data extraction and label assignment for web databases," Proc. 12^th Intl. World Wide Web Conf., 187-196, 2003.
Wang, J. and Lochovsky, F.H., "Data-rich section extraction from HTML pages," Proc. 3^rd Intl. Conf. on Web Information Systems Engineering, 313-322, 2002.

Editorial Positions

Editorial Board, World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems
Editorial Board, South African Computer Journal
Editorial Advisory Board, Internet Research

Courses

COMP 211 Introduction to Software Engineering (Spring 2009)
COMP 231 Database Management Systems (Summer 1997)

COMP 332 Principles of Database Design (Summer 2009)

COMP 631B Web Information and Knowledge Management (Fall 1999)

Final Year Projects


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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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