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I like to say that I backed into data mining. I come from the database community, although with a dissertation in database support for hypertext (while at Princeton University) I have never really been a “core database” researcher. With years (Bachelor’s and Master’s) at M.I.T., I had also had more machine learning than most. This leads to my first real “data-mining” work (although it was not called that at the time): applying machine learning techniques to a problem in heterogeneous databases. Schema integration, or more specifically schema element matching, has all of the hallmarks we see in good knowledge discovery problems:
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Clifton, C. (2012). Discovering Privacy. In: Gaber, M. (eds) Journeys to Data Mining. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28047-4_5
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