Full Schedule


Thursday 18 September

Invited Talk

Thursday 18 September
09:00 - 10:00
Location: Aula Rector Dhanis

Session chair: Bart Goethals


09:00The Role of Hierarchies in Exploratory Data Mining
Raghu Ramakrishnan - Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara, CA, USA
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Learning and Mining Text and NLP

Thursday 18 September
10:40 - 12:20
Location: R001

Session chair: Antal van den Bosch


10:40A Genetic Algorithm for Text Classification Rule Induction
Adriana Pietramala, Veronica L. Policicchio, Pasquale Rullo, Inderbir Sidhu
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11:00A Joint Topic and Perspective Model for Ideological Discourse
Wei-Hao Lin, Eric Xing, Alexander Hauptmann
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11:20Towards Machine Learning of Grammars and Compilers of Programming Languages
Katsuhiko Nakamura, Keita Imada
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11:40A Joint Segmenting and Labeling Approach for Chinese Lexical Analysis
Xinhao Wang, Jiazhong Nie, Dingsheng Luo, Xihong Wu
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12:00Bootstrapping Information Extraction from Semi-structured Web Pages
Andrew Carlson, Charles Schafer
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Semi Supervised Learning

Thursday 18 September
10:40 - 12:20
Location: R002

Session chair: Dunja Mladenic


10:40Semi-Supervised Boosting for Multi-Class Classification
Hamed Valizadegan, Rong Jin, Anil K. Jain
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11:00Semi-supervised Classification from Discriminative Random Walks
Jerome Callut, Kevin Francoisse, Marco Saerens, Pierre Dupont
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11:20Online Manifold Regularization: A New Learning Setting and Empirical Study
Andrew B. Goldberg, Ming Li, Xiaojin Zhu
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11:40Watch, Listen & Learn: Co-training on Captioned Images and Videos
Sonal Gupta, Joohyun Kim, Kristen Grauman, Raymond Mooney
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12:00Large Margin vs. Large Volume in Transductive
Ran El-Yaniv, Dmitry Pechyony, Vladimir Vapnik
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Similarity Based Methods

Thursday 18 September
10:40 - 12:20
Location: R014

Session chair: Eyke Hüllermeier


10:40Improving k-Nearest Neighbour Classification with Distance Functions based on Receiver Operating Characteristics
Md. Rafiul Hassan, M. Maruf Hossain, James Bailey, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao
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11:00Nearest Neighbour Classification with Monotonicity Constraints
Wouter Duivesteijn, Ad Feelders
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11:20Estimating Sales Opportunity using Similarity-based Methods
Sholom Weiss, Nitin Indurkhya
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11:40A Collaborative Filtering Framework Based on both Local User Similarity and Global User Similarity
Heng Luo, Changyong Niu, Ruimin Shen, Carsten Ullrich
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12:00Metric Learning: A Support Vector Approach
Nam Nguyen, Yunsong Guo
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Reinforcement Learning 2

Thursday 18 September
14:00 - 15:20
Location: R001

Session chair: Shimon Whiteson


14:00State-Dependent Exploration for Policy Gradient Methods
Thomas Rückstiess, Martin Felder, Jürgen Schmidhuber
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14:20A New Natural Policy Gradient by Stationary Distribution Metric
Tetsuro Morimura, Eiji Uchibe, Junichiro Yoshimoto, Kenji Doya
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14:40Fitted Natural Actor-Critic: A New Algorithm for Continuous State-Action MDPs
Francisco S. Melo, Manuel C. Lopes
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15:00Learning MDP Action Models via Discrete Mixture Trees
Michael Wynkoop, Thomas Dietterich
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Clustering 2

Thursday 18 September
14:00 - 15:20
Location: R002

Session chair: Wray Buntine


14:00Large-Scale Clustering through Functional Embedding
Frederic Ratle, Jason Weston, Matthew L. Miller
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14:20Mixed Bregman Clustering with Approximation Guarantees
Richard Nock, Panu Luosto, Jyrki Kivinen
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14:40Clustering Distributed Sensor Data Streams
Pedro Rodrigues-Pereira, João Gama, Luís Lopes
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15:00Data Streaming with Affinity Propagation
Xiangliang Zhang, Cyril Furtlehner, Michele Sebag
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Pattern Mining

Thursday 18 September
14:00 - 15:20
Location: R014

Session chair: Toon Calders


14:00Adequate Condensed Representations of Patterns
Arnaud Soulet, Bruno Cremilleux
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14:20Minimum-Size Bases of Association Rules
José L Balcázar
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14:40Decomposable Families of Itemsets
Nikolaj Tatti, Hannes Heikinheimo
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15:00A Space Efficient Solution to the Frequent String Mining Problem for Many Databases
Adrian Kugel, Enno Ohlebusch
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Social Networks

Thursday 18 September
16:00 - 17:00
Location: R001

Session chair: Myra Spiliopoulou


16:00Hierarchical, Parameter-Free Community Discovery
Spiros Papadimitriou, Jimeng Sun, Philip S. Yu, Christos Faloutsos
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16:20A Fast Algorithm to Find Overlapping Communities in Networks
Steve Gregory
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16:40Effective Visualization of Information Diffusion Process over Complex Networks
Kazumi Saito, Masahiro Kimura, Hiroshi Motoda
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Multi Relational

Thursday 18 September
16:00 - 17:00
Location: R002

Session chair: Stefan Kramer


16:00Parameter Learning in Probabilistic Databases: A Least Squares Approach
Bernd Gutmann, Angelika Kimmig, Kristian Kersting, Luc De Raedt
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16:20A Simple Model for Sequences of Relational State Descriptions
Ingo Thon, Niels Landwehr, Luc De Raedt
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16:40Extracting Semantic Networks from Text via Relational Clustering
Stanley Kok, Pedro Domingos
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Feature Selection

Thursday 18 September
16:00 - 17:00
Location: R014

Session chair: Gerhard Paass


16:00A Novel Scalable and Data Efficient Feature Subset Selection Algorithm
Sergio Rodrigues de Morais, Alex Aussem
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16:20Robust Feature Selection using Ensemble Feature Selection Techniques
Yvan Saeys, Thomas Abeel, Yves Van de Peer
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16:40Scalable Feature Selection for Multi-Class Problems
Boris Chidlovskii, Loïc Lecerf
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Community Meeting

Thursday 18 September
17:00 - 18:40
Location: R001

Poster Reception 2

Thursday 18 September
19:00 - ?
Location: Elzenveld