ICS 279: AI seminar

Schedule

Jan 12

  • Susan Craw, Robin Boswell, Ray Rowe (1997). Knowledge Refinement to Debug and Maintain a Tablet Formulation System Proceedingso f the 9TH IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (TAI'97), Newport Beach, CA.
    presented by Susan Craw

  • Adaptive Web Sites: Automatically Synthesizing Web Pages M. Perkowitz and O. Etzioni. in Proceedings of AAAI98.
    Presented by Michael Pazzani

    Jan 19

  • Improving Text Classification by Shrinkage in a Hierarchy of Classes. Andrew McCallum, Ronald Rosenfeld, Tom Mitchell and Andrew Ng. ICML-98.
    Presented by Chris Cooke

  • Billsus, D. and Pazzani, M. (1999). "A Personal News Agent that Talks, Learns and Explains", UNPUBLISHED DRAFT, accepted for presentation at the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents '99), Seattle, Washington, May 1-5, 1999. PDF
    Presented by Daniel Billsus

    Jan 26

  • M. Sahami, S. Dumais, D. Heckerman, and E. Horvitz (1998). A Bayesian approach to filtering junk e-mail. (Postscript file) AAAI'98 Workshop on Learning for Text Categorization, July 27, 1998, Madison, Wisconsin.
    Presented by Mats Petter Pettersson

  • S. T. Dumais, J. Platt, D. Heckerman and M. Sahami (1998). Inductive learning algorithms and representations for text categorization. (Word file) To appear in: Proceedings of ACM-CIKM98, Nov. 1998.
    Presented by Cathy Blake

    Feb 2

  • R. Bayardo, "Efficiently Mining Long Patterns from Databases", Proc. of the ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, Seattle, Washington, June 1998. PDF format. Abstract.
    Presented by Stephen Bay
  • Dynamic Itemset Counting and Implication Rules for Market Basket Data by Sergey Brin. Rajeev Motwani, Jeffrey D. Ullman and Shalom Tsur.
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, pp. 255-264, Tuscon, Arizona, May 13-15 1997. (html , postscript)
    Presented by Wagner Truppel

    Feb 9

  • Learning to Classify Text from Labeled and Unlabeled Documents. Kamal Nigam, Andrew McCallum, Sebastian Thrun and Tom Mitchell. AAAI-98. (Longer version draft accepted to the Machine Learning Journal.)
    Presented by Daniel Billsus

  • Learning to Extract Symbolic Knowledge from the World Wide Web. M. Craven, D. DiPasquo, D. Freitag, A. McCallum, T. Mitchell, K. Nigam and S. Slattery. Proceedings of the 15th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98).
    Presented by Mats Petter Pettersson

    Feb 16

  • William W. Cohen, Haym Hirsh Joins that Generalize: Text Classification Using WHIRL In KDD-98. Download.

  • William W. Cohen A Web-based Information System that Reasons with Structured Collections of Text In Autonomous Agents '98. Download.
    Presented by Xian-ping Ge

  • Employing EM in Pool-Based Active Learning for Text Classification. Andrew McCallum and Kamal Nigam. ICML-98.
    Presented by Chris Cooke

    Feb 23

  • J. Platt, Fast Training of Support Vector Machines using Sequential Minimal Optimization, in Advances in Kernel Methods - Support Vector Learning,  B. Schölkopf, C. Burges, and A. Smola, eds., MIT Press, to appear, (1998). Available in PDF format (278K) or Compressed PostScript format (111K). This is a peer-reviewed book chapter and has more details than the technical report, below. The chapter does not contain an overview of SVMs or a bibliography, however.
    See also. J. Platt, Sequential Minimal Optimization: A Fast Algorithm for Training Support Vector Machines, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-98-14, (1998). Available in PDF format (88K) or Compressed PostScript format (238 K). An older technical report about SMO --- contains an overview of SVMs.
    Presented by Xian-ping Ge

  • SMI-97-668 L. Ohno-Machado, J.H. Gennari & a cast of thousands. The GuideLine Interchange Format: A Model for Sharing Guidelines. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, v. 5, #4, pp. 357-372, 1998.
    Presented by John Gennari

    Mar 2

  • N. Megiddo, R. Srikant, "Discovering Predictive Association Rules", Proc. of the 4th Int'l Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Data Mining, New York, August 1998. PDF format. Abstract.
    Presented by Wagner Truppel
    Presented by Robin Burke

    Mar 9

  • Susan Craw and Robin Boswell, Proceedings of the British Computer Society Expert Systems Conference, p58-74, Springer, 1998. Also selected for publication in a future volume of the Knowledge Based Systems journal. Knowledge Modelling for a Generic Refinement Framework
    Something Presented by Wanda Pratt

    TBD