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Opening session Bled, September 7, 2009 ECML PKDD in SecondLife For the first time, ECML PKDD present in a virtual world Opening and Awards ceremony and the invited talk by Rosie Jones broadcast in real time to a virtual conference
For the first time, ECML PKDD present in a virtual world
Opening and Awards ceremony and the invited talk by Rosie Jones broadcast in real time to a virtual conference centre provided by Nature Publishing Group in SecondLife
Everyone invited to join the event, the instructions at http://www.nature.com/secondnature/basics.html and then visit http://slurl.com/secondlife/Elucian%20Islands/214/42/58 thanks to Blaz Novak, J. Stefan Institute
General Chair
Dunja Mladenić, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Program Chairs
Wray Buntine, NICTA, Australia; Helsinki Institute of IT, Finland
Marko Grobelnik, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
John Shawe-Taylor, University College London, UK Local Chair
Tina Anžič, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Workshop Chair
Rayid Ghani, Accenture Technology Labs, USA Tutorial Chair
Cedric Archambeau, University College London, UK Best Papers Chair
Aleksander Kolcz, Microsoft Live Labs, USA Industrial Track Chairs
Marko Grobelnik, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Nataša Milić-Frayling, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Discovery Challenge Chair
Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
Demo Chair
Alejandro Jaimes Larrarte, Telefonica Research, Spain Publicity Chair
David Hardoon, University College London, UK Video Chair
Mitja Jermol, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Steering committee members
Walter Daelemans, Bart Goethals, Katharina Morik, Johannes Fürnkranz, Joost
Mladenić, Tobias Scheffer, Andrzej Skowron, Myra Spiliopoulou
Staff of J. Stefan Institute Center for Knowledge Transfer
Student volunteers mainly members of Slovenian AI society SLAIS
Team of J. Stefan Institute Videolectures.net
Department of Knowledge Technologies at J. Stefan Institute
sample, function patterns, databases kernels, SVM, feature selection prediction, subgroup logic, representation clustering, classification
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by OntoGen.ijs.si
2001 – Freiburg
2002 – Helsinki
2003 – Cavtat-Dubrovnik
2004 – Pisa
2005 – Porto
2006 – Berlin
2007 – Warsaw
2008 – Antwerp
Distinctive keywords for the accepted papers 2007-2009 (linear SVM trained on one year against the other two) 2007 - classifiers, information, sets, training, generally, time, objective, order, case, techniques
2008 - usa, data, metric, mining, computer, models, large, class, called, form
2009 - feature, kernel, inference, graph, technology, searching, algorithms, class, science, pattern
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Early: 227 Regular: 111 Free: 45
Regular Early 125 Student Early 67 Student Early Discount 35 Regular 72 Student Regular 24 Student Regular Discount 15 Free 45
ECML PKDD community portal at Springer http://www.springer.com/ecmlpkdd
ECML PKDD community portal at Springer http://www.springer.com/ecmlpkdd
Supported by:
Area Chairs
Francis Bach, Hendrik Blockeel, Francesco Bonchi, Pavel Brazdil, Toon Calders, Nitesh Chawla, Walter Daelemans, Tijl De Bie, Johannes Fuernkranz, Thomas Gaertner, Joao Gama, Bart Goethals, Eamonn Keogh, Joost Kok, Jure Leskovec, Stan Matwin, Taneli Mielikainen, Dunja Mladenic, Claire Nedellec, Martin Scholz, David Silver, Steffen Staab, Gerd Stumme, Luis Torgo, Michael Witbrock, Stefan Wrobel Programme committee having over 300 members
ECML PKDD 2009 received 679 abstract submissions
Finally 422 papers submitted (and not withdrawn during the reviewing process)
Area chairs provided recommendations and ranking
based on the reviews and discussions among the reviewers
The three Program Chairs made the final decision after merging the opinions of the Area chairs
26 Area chairs each responsible for several related research
topics
Program committee nominated by area chairs consisting of some 300 renowned researchers To reduce the efforts of the reviewers
1.
2.
in the event of an inconsistency between the two assessments a third review was requested
3.
papers receiving two very positive reviews were considered for inclusion in the two special journal issues: `Machine Learning' and `Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery‘
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further review for the candidates for journal
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among the journal papers two best student papers were selected
Our aim was to give Area Chairs control of the process:
They recruit their referees
They bid for papers
They allocate the referees
They lead the resolution of conflicts/discussions
They rank their batch of papers
Aim was to personalise the reviewing process and ensure all papers given attention of area chair
Some teething problems (our apologies!):
Had significant number of papers that did not receive bids from Area Chairs
Meant Area Chairs were handling papers they were not expert in and for which they did not initially have ideal reviewers
Delays in allocation process significantly reduced reviewing time
Despite these difficulties Area Chairs and reviewers did a magnificent job – and we believe that our main goal of more personalised reviewing was achieved.
105 research papers/presentations with posters (Tuesday, Thursday)
12 demo papers/presentations (Tuesday 18:00) with alive demos (Tuesday evening)
5 world-class invited talks (Monday-Friday)
9 Workshops (Monday, Friday)
6 Tutorials (Monday, Friday)
Discovery Challenge (Monday)
Industrial Track (Tuesday)
Project Exhibition (Monday)
Monday
9:00 -17:00 Workshops, Tutorials, Discovery Challenge, Project Exhibition
17:20 Conference Opening and Awards + Invited Talk
20:00 Welcome Reception Tuesday – Thursday
9:00 Invited Talk, Regular Sessions / Banquet (Wed)
Posters (Tue, Thu)/Community Meeting (Thu) Friday
9:00 Invited Talk
Workshops, Tutorials + Farewell
USA Germany China France Japan Britain Spain Holland Singapore Australia Finland Canada Italy Switzerland Hong-Kong Hungary New-Zealand Belgium Portugal Ireland Turkey Austria Norway
New-Zealand Hungary Norway Finland Singapore Turkey Switzerland Holland Germany Hong-Kong USA Australia Ireland Canada Japan Britain Spain Portugal China France Belgium Italy Austria
Europe USA Asia Oceania gmail America Africa&ME
Oceania USA Europe Asia Africa&ME gmail America
Call for two types of demonstrations:
(1) On-site demonstrations, and
(2) Stand-alone web demonstrations. Submissions:
Most were on (1) only.
17 demo submissions, 12 accepted.
3 reviewers shared, looking at “perceived interest” and demo quality.
Monday 18:00-19:00 Rosie Jones, Yahoo!, Inc “Privacy in Web Search Query Log Mining” Tuesday 9:00 – 10:00 Shai Ben-David, University of Waterloo “Theory-Practice Interplay in Machine Learning – Emerging Theoretical Challenges” Wednesday 9:00 – 10:00 Ralf Steinberger, EC JRC “Highly multilingual news analysis applications” Thursday 9:00 – 10:00 Mark Greaves, Vulcan Inc. “The Growing Semantic Web” Friday 9:00 – 10:00 Nello Cristianini, University of Bristol “Are We There Yet?”
Papers receiving positive reviews were suggested by the Area chairs as candidates for journal publication
16 papers were suggested; 8 for ML and 8 for KDD
Additional review for each suggested paper, papers ranked, the top seven from each list were selected for a journal publication
In each list:
the highest ranked paper is awarded the best paper
the highest ranked student paper is awarded the best student paper
Sparse Kernel SVMs via Cutting-Plane Training, Thorsten Joachims, Chun-Nam Yu (Cornell University, USA) SESSION: MULTI-WAY LEARNING & SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES Wednesday 13:20 - 15:50, Room Preseren
RTG: A Recursive Realistic Graph Generator using Random Typing, Leman Akoglu, Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) SESSION: GRAPHS 2 & INFERENCE 1 Wednesday 13:20 - 15:50, Room Concordia - Hotel Golf
Sponsored by the Machine Learning Journal
Combining Instance-Based Learning and Logistic Regression for Multi-Label Classification, Weiwei Cheng, Eyke Huellermeier (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Marburg University, Germany) SESSION: CLASSIFICATION 2 Wednesday 11:00 - 12:40, Room Concordia - Hotel Golf
Sponsored by the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal
Identifying the Components, Matthijs van Leeuwen, Jilles Vreeken, Arno Siebes (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands) SESSION: CLASSIFICATION 3 Thursday 11:00 - 12:40, Room Concordia - Hotel Golf
11:00 – 11:40 Jure Leskovec, Stanford University
11:40 – 12:20 Patrick Moore, Bloomberg
12:20 – 12:50 Andraz Tori, Zemanta
14:00 – 14:45 Evan Sandhouse, NYTimes Research
14:45 – 15:30 Rayid Ghani, Accenture Labs
16:00 – 16:45 Neel Sundaresan, eBay Research
16:45 – 17:30 Ricardo Baeza Yates, Yahoo Research
Learning from Multi-Label Data (afternoon), Grigorios Tsoumakas, Min- Ling Zhang, Zhi-Hua Zhou
Learning and data Mining for Robotics, Einoshin Suzuki, Michele Sebag
Learning from non-IID Data: Theory, Algorithms and Practice, Liva Ralaivola, Amaury Habrard, Massih-Reza Amini, Nicolas Usunier
Learning Monotone Models from Data, Rob Potharst, Ad Feelders
Music and Machine Learning, Rafael Ramirez , Darrell Conklin, Christina Anagnostopoulou, Jose Manuel Iniesta
From Local Patterns to Global Models, Arno Knobbe, Johannes Fürnkranz
Service-oriented Knowledge Discovery (morning), Nada Lavrac, Vid Podpecan, Joost Kok, Jeroen de Bruin
Explorative Analytics of Information Networks, Andreas Nuernberger, Michael Berthold
Preference Learning, Eyke Hüllermeier, Johannes Fürnkranz
Learning from Multi-label Data (morning), Grigorios Tsoumakas, Min Ling Zhang, Zhi-Hua Zhou
Language and Document Analysis: Motivating Latent Variable Models (morning), Wray Buntine
Methods for Large Network Analysis (afternoon), Vladimir Batagelj
Evaluation in Machine Learning (morning), Pádraig Cunningham
Transfer Learning for Reinforcement Learning Domains (afternoon), Alessandro Lazaric, Matthew Taylor
Graphical Models (morning), Tiberio Caetano
Given a user and a resource, recommend up to five tags in the social bookmark system BibSonomy.
Task 1: Content-Based Tag Recommendations
Task 2: Graph-Based Recommendations
Task 3: Online Tag Recommendations 150 get access to training data, 21 result submissions for each of the Tasks 1 & 2, 27 paper submissions - 24 accepted, 10 participants for Task 3 with 14 recommenders. http://www.bibsonomy.org/
Task 1: Content-Based Tag Recommendations Marek Lipczak, Yeming Hu, Yael Kollet and Evangelos Milios
Task 2: Graph-Based Recommendations Steffen Rendle and Lars Schmidt-Thieme
Task 3: Online Tag Recommendations Marek Lipczak et al.
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Five social events:
reception (Bled Castle, departure at 19:30)
(Golf Hotel – Room Jupiter at 20:00)
dinner (Postojna cave & Jamski dvorec, departure at 16:00)
(Grand Hotel Toplice at 20:00)
party (Golf Hotel at 18:30)
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