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Parallel Sessions, Demos and Posters - Newsletter September, 8 2015
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Keynote - 09:00-10:00
YESTERDAY EVENTS
University of Leuven, Leiden University
Research Track Invited Speaker
Room: Arquivo
Talk: Towards declarative, domain-oriented data
analysis
Registration: the start of a great conference
Restaurants, Bars and Cafés suggestions
Majestic
The charming Majestic Café, founded in December
1921, is a meeting place of excellence and one of
the city’s must-see. Located in the heart of Porto
downtown, in the commercial pedestrian street
of Santa Catarina, this emblematic café was the
favorite spot of writers, artists, politicians and other
prominent personalities from Porto. More than
a social café, Majestic was a cultural place where
intellectuals discussed their ideas and shared their
knowledge, and where exhibitions, concerts and
tertulias took place. Several illustrious people,
who include Gago Coutinho, Beatriz Costa, Júlio
Resende, José Régio and Teixeira de Pascoaes, were
regular customers of this café and some people
say that J.K. Rowling spent many hours at Majestic
writing her first Harry Potter book.
Visit Majestic and let yourself be inspired by its
unique and luxurious atmosphere while drinking
an espresso and tasting Portuguese pastries.
Majestic also serves breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Some unknown researchers
The bosses
Address: Rua Santa Catarina, nº 112, 4000-442
Porto
T: +351 22 200 3887
Eager to learn
ECML PKDD 2015 in Numbers
Word cloud generated from all papers accepted
in ECMLPKDD 2015
Abstract:
The need for advanced data analysis now pervades
all areas of science, industry and services. A wide
variety of theory and techniques from statistics,
data mining, and machine learning is available.
Addressing a concrete question or problem in a
particular application domain requires multiple
non-trivial steps: translating the question to a data
analysis problem, selecting a suitable approach
to solve this problem, correctly applying that
approach, and correctly interpreting the results. In
this process, specialist knowledge on data analysis
needs to be combined with domain expertise.
As data analysis becomes ever more advanced,
this becomes increasingly difficult. In an ideal
world, data analysis would be declarative and
domain-oriented: the user should be able to state
the question, rather than describing a solution
procedure, and the software should decide how to
provide an answer. The user then no longer needs
to be, or hire, a specialist in data analysis for every
step of the knowledge discovery process. This
would make data analysis easier, more efficient,
and less error-prone. In this talk, I will discuss
contemporary research that is bringing the state of
the art in data analysis closer to that long-term goal.
This includes research on inductive databases,
constraint-based data mining, probabilistic-logical
modeling, and declarative experimentation.
Bio:
Hendrik Blockeel is a professor at the Computer
Science department of KU Leuven, Belgium,
and part-time associate professor at Leiden
University, The Netherlands. His research interests
lie mostly in machine learning and data mining.
He has made a variety of research contributions
in these fields, including work on decision tree
learning, inductive logic programming, predictive
clustering, probabilistic-logical models, inductive
databases, constraint-based data mining, and
declarative data analysis. He is an action editor
for Machine Learning and serves on the editorial
board of several other journals. He has chaired
or organized multiple conferences, workshops,
and summer schools, including ILP, ECMLPKDD,
IDA and ACAI, and he has been vice-chair, area
chair, or senior PC member for ECAI, IJCAI, ICML,
KDD, ICDM. He was a member of the board of the
European Coordinating Committee for Artificial
Intelligence from 2004 to 2010, and currently
serves as publications chair for the ECMLPKDD
steering committee.
Special Events
Poster session and Demos
Come to these events: socialize, learn and eat
good food.
CHALLENGE OF THE DAY
Places to visit in Porto
D. Luís I Bridge
Hang Li
Sep 08 2015 14:00-15:00
Industrial Keynote
Room: Arquivo
Planned by the engineer Teófilo Seyrig, a disciple
of Eiffel, it was inaugurated in 1886 and it is
composed by two overlapping iron decks. The
bridge has 395 metres long and 8 metres wide,
and its arch is still considered to be the world’s
biggest one in forged iron. Nowadays the upper
deck is used by the Metro of Porto, connecting
the area of Porto’s Cathedral to the Garden of
Morro and to the Avenida da República in Vila
Nova de Gaia.
Talk: AI Research at Huawei Technologies
(site: http://www.visitporto.travel/)
Abstract:
To enable computers to listen, speak, see, and
learn like humans, and even more to build
computers that analyze, infer, predict, and make
decisions better than humans is the ultimate
dream of artificial intelligence. In the near future,
we envision that with advanced AI technologies
each person and each enterprise will have
multiple intelligent computer assistants to
help accomplish various tasks with results that
are as good or even better than if they were
performed by humans. Huawei Technologies,
one of the major telecommunication equipment
and service companies in the world, is also
conducting research toward this noble goal of
AI. In this talk, I will introduce some progresses
which Huawei, and particularly its Noah’ Ark
Lab, have made recently, including a platform
for deep learning research, natural language
processing using deep learning, construction
and utilization of large-scale knowledge base in
telecommunication domain.
Address: Avenida de Vímara Peres, Porto
Bio:
Hang Li is director of the Noah’s Ark Lab of
Huawei Technologies. His research areas include
natural language processing, information
retrieval, statistical machine learning, and data
mining. He graduated from Kyoto University in
1988 and earned his PhD from the University
of Tokyo in 1998. He worked at the NEC lab in
Japan during 1991 and 2001, and Microsoft
Research Asia during 2001 and 2012.
Solution of Previous Challenge
http://regexcrossword.com/
Announcements
Sponsor Session
At Infante room, 18:00-19:00, there will be a sponsors
session where three companies will present their job
opportunities.
These companies are Zalando, Feddzai and Farfetch.
A very good opportunity for those that are searching
for new challenges.
Certificate
For those who need a Certificate of Participation
they should go to the conference registration desk
and give their e-mail address. The certificate will be
send by e-mail.
Internet Information
How to connect to Alfândega Wifi Network
Network Name (SSID): Vodafone
Password: ccalfandega
Twitter Hashtag
#ecmlpkdd2015
Contact
For questions, remarks, or if you made a picture
that you would like to see in tomorrows
edition, please mail to
[email protected]
COMIC
Lello Bookshop
The building where the library is now located
was inaugurated in 1906. Special mention
goes to its beautiful Art Nouveau façade with
neo-Gothic details. On the inside, the library
is decorated in painted plaster imitating
wood and presents a magnificent staircase
linking it to the upper floor - one of the first
reinforced concrete works in Porto. Also
worthy of attention is the huge stained-glass
skylight, bearing the library’s monogram and
motto: ‘Decus in Labore’. In 2008, the English
newspaper The Guardian considered this
library the world’s third most beautiful, as did
the Lonely Planet in its guide “Lonely Planet’s
Best in Travel 2011”, describing it as an ‘Art
Nouveau gem’, and particularly mentioning
its ‘neo-Gothic shelves’ and the ‘lolloping red
staircase’.
Address: Rua das Carmelitas, 144, 4050-161
Porto
Tel.: +351 222002037
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 10:00-19:30 Sat 10:0019:00 Closed at Sundays, except June, July,
August and September 11:00-19:00
(site:http://www.kdnuggets.com/websites/
cartoons.html)