AI 2014

AI 2014 Invited Tutorials

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Location: Polytechnique, Lassonde building, room M-1010

9:00 am ‒ 10:30 am

Deep Learning of Representations (Part I)

Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montréal

Session Chair: Marina Sokolova

10:30 am ‒ 11:00 am

Coffee Break

11:00 am ‒ 12:00 pm

Deep Learning of Representations (Part II)

12:00 pm ‒1:30 pm

Lunch (on your own)

1:30 pm ‒3:00 pm

AI Applications in Clinical Monitoring (Part I)

Doina Precup, McGill University

Rescheduled to Friday, May 9, 2:00-3:30pm

3:00 pm ‒ 3:30 pm

Coffee Break

3:30 pm ‒4:30 pm

AI Applications in Clinical Monitoring (Part II)

Rescheduled to Friday, May 9, 2:00-3:30pm

7:00 pm ‒9:00 pm

Welcome Reception

Lorne M. Trottier Atrium

Graduate Student Symposium

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Chair: Shamima Mithun

Location: Polytechnique, Lassonde building, room M-1020

9:00 am ‒ 9:30 am

Invited Talk, Jesse Vincent-Herscovici

9:30 am ‒ 9:50 am

Task Oriented Privacy Technologies, Yasser Jafer

9:50 am ‒ 10:10 am

Graph-Based Domain-Specific Relatedness from Wikipedia, Armin Sajadi

10:10 am ‒ 10:30 am

Semantic Management of Scholarly Literature: A Wiki-based Approach, Bahar Sateli

10:30 am ‒ 11:00 am

Coffee Break

11:00 am ‒ 11:30 am

Invited Talk, Andre Vellino

11:30 am ‒ 11:45 am

Alpha-approximation density-based clustering of multi-valued objects, Zhilin Zhang

Wednesday, May 7, 2014, Morning

Location: Université de Montréal, André-Aisenstadt building, room 1140

8:30 am ‒ 9:00 am

Welcoming session for AI/GI/CRV 2014

Search and Knowledge Representation

Session Chair: Peter van Beek

9:00 am ‒ 9:20 am

Inconsistency versus Accuracy of Heuristics, Hang Dinh

9:20 am ‒ 9:40 am

Partial Satisfaction Planning Under Time Uncertainty with Control on When Objectives Can Be Aborted, Sylvain Labranche and Éric Beaudry

9:40 am ‒ 10:00 am

A Comparison of h² and MMM for Mutex Pair Detection Applied to Pattern Databases, Mehdi Sadeqi, Robert C. Holte, and Sandra Zilles

10:00 am ‒ 10:15 am

Belief Change and Non-Deterministic Actions, Aaron Hunter

10:15 am ‒ 10:30 am

Complete Axiomatization and Complexity of Coalition Logic of Temporal Knowledge for Multi-Agent Systems, Qingliang Chen, Kaile Su, Yong Hu, and Guiwu Hu

10:30 am ‒ 11:00 am

Coffee Break

Geospatial

Session Chair: Ziad Kobti

11:00 am ‒ 11:20 am

Analyzing User Trajectories from Mobile Device Data with Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes, Negar Ghourchian and Doina Precup

11:20 am ‒ 11:40 am

Use of Ontology and Cluster Ensembles for Geospatial Clustering Analysis, Wei Gu, Zhilin Zhang, Baijie Wang, and Xin Wang

11:40 am ‒ 12:00 pm

Learning Latent Factor Models of Travel Data for Travel Prediction and Analysis, Michael Guerzhoy and Aaron Hertzmann

12:00 pm ‒ 12:15 pm

Inferring Road Maps from Sparsely-Sampled GPS Traces, Jia Qiu, Ruisheng Wang, and Xin Wang

12:15 pm ‒ 12:30 pm

Weka-SAT: A Hierarchical Context-based Inference Engine to Enrich Trajectories with Semantics, Bruno Moreno, Amílcar S. Júnior, Valéria Times, Patrícia Tedesco, and Stan Matwin

12:30 pm ‒ 2:00 pm

Lunch (on your own)

Wednesday, May 7, 2014, Afternoon

Location: Université de Montréal, André-Aisenstadt building, room 1140

2:00 pm ‒ 3:30 pm

Invited Speaker

Deploying Secure Multi-party Computation in Practice:

Examples in Health Settings

Khaled El Emam, Privacy Analytics & University of Ottawa

Session Chair: Doina Precup

3:30 pm ‒ 4:00 pm

Coffee Break

Bioinformatics and Medicine

Session Chair: Nathalie Japkowicz

4:00 pm ‒ 4:20 pm

A Novel Particle Swarm-based Approach for 3D Motif Matching and Protein Structure Classification, Hazem Ahmed and Janice Glasgow

4:20 pm ‒ 4:40 pm

Empirical Evaluation of Intelligent Mobile User Interfaces in Healthcare, Reem Alnanih, Olga Ormandjieva, and Thiruvengadam Radhakrishnan

4:40 pm ‒ 5:00 pm

Gene Functional Similarity Analysis by Definition-based Semantic Similarity Measurement of GO Terms, Ahmad Pesaranghader, Ali Pesaranghader, Azadeh Rezaei, and Danoosh Davoodi

5:00 pm ‒ 5:15 pm

Using Ensemble of Bayesian Classifying Algorithms for Medical Systematic Reviews, Abdullah Aref and Thomas Tran

5:15 pm ‒ 5:30 pm

Gene Reduction for Cancer Classification using Cascaded Neural Network with Gene Masking, Raneel Kumar, Krishnil Chand, and Sunil Pranit Lal

5:30 pm ‒ 6:30 pm

CAIAC Annual General Meeting

Thursday, May 8, 2014, Morning

Location: Université de Montréal, André-Aisenstadt building, room 1140

Text

Session Chair: Vlado Keselj

9:00 am ‒ 9:20 am

Rhetorical Figuration as a Metric in Text Summarization, Mohammed Alliheedi and Chrysanne Di Marco

9:20 am ‒ 9:40 am

Text Representation using Multi-level Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Amir H. Razavi and Diana Inkpen

9:40 am ‒ 10:00 am

Combining Textual Pre-Game Reports and Statistical Data for Predicting Success in the National Hockey League, Joshua Weissbock and Diana Inkpen

10:00 am ‒ 10:15 am

The Use of NLP Techniques in Static Code Analysis To Detect Weaknesses and Vulnerabilities, Serguei A. Mokhov, Joey Paquet, and Mourad Debbabi

10:15 am ‒ 10:30 am

Improving Word Embeddings via Combining with Complementary Languages, Changliang Li, Bo Xu, Gaowei Wu, Tao Zhuang, Xiuying Wang, and Wendong Ge

10:30 am ‒ 11:00 am

Coffee Break

11:00 am ‒ 12:30 pm

Invited Speaker

Text Mining: Where do we come from, Where do we go?

Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University

Session Chair: Peter van Beek

12:30 pm ‒ 2:00 pm

Lunch (on your own)

Thursday, May 8, 2014, Afternoon

Location: Université de Montréal, André-Aisenstadt building, room 1140

Applications of AI

Session Chair: Malek Mouhoub

2:00 pm ‒ 2:20 pm

Filtering Personal Queries From Mixed-use Query Logs, Ary Fagundes Bressane Neto, Phillipe Desaulniers, Pablo Duboue, and Alexis Smirnov

2:20 pm ‒ 2:40 pm

VMSP: Efficient Vertical Mining of Maximal Sequential Patterns, Philippe Fournier-Viger, Cheng-Wei Wu, Antonio Gomariz, and Vincent S. Tseng

2:40 pm ‒ 3:00 pm

A Consensus Approach for Annotation Projection in an Advanced Dialog Context, Simon Julien, Philippe Langlais, and Réal Tremblay

3:00 pm ‒ 3:15 pm

Effects of Frequency-Based Inter-frame Dependencies on Automatic Speech Recognition, Ludovic Trottier, Brahim Chaib-Draa, and Philippe Giguère

3:15 pm ‒ 3:30 pm

Towards a Tunable Framework for Recommendation Systems based on Pairwise Preference Mining Algorithms, Sandra de Amo and Cleiane G. Oliveira

3:30 pm ‒ 4:00 pm

Coffee Break

Machine Learning

Session Chair: Cory Butz

4:00 pm ‒ 4:20 pm

Active Learning Strategies for Semi-Supervised DBSCAN, Jundong Li, Jörg Sander, Ricardo Campello, and Arthur Zimek

4:20 pm ‒ 4:40 pm

Learning How Productive and Unproductive Meetings Differ, Gabriel Murray

4:40 pm ‒ 5:00 pm

Ensemble of Multiple Kernel SVM Classifiers, Xiaoguang Wang, Xuan Liu, Nathalie Japkowicz, and Stan Matwin

5:00 pm ‒ 5:15 pm

Heterogenous Multi-Population Cultural Algorithm with a Dynamic Dimension Decomposition Strategy, Mohammad R. Raeesi N. and Ziad Kobti

5:15 pm ‒ 5:30 pm

Polynomial Multivariate Approximation with Genetic Algorithms, Angel Kuri-Morales and Alejandro Cartas-Ayala

7:00 pm ‒ 10:00 pm

Banquet and Awards Presentations, Musée Grévin

Friday, May 9, 2014, Morning

Location: Location: Polytechnique, Lassonde building, room M-1510

9:00 am ‒ 10:30 am

Invited Speaker

PhD Award Winner

Hootan Nakhost

Session Chair: Malek Mouhoub

10:30 am ‒ 11:00 am

Coffee Break

Social Media

Session Chair: Guy Lapalme

11:00 am ‒ 11:20 am

Learning to Measure Influence in a Scientific Social Network, Shane Bergsma, Regan L. Mandryk, and Gordon McCalla

11:20 am ‒ 11:35 am

Robust Features for Detecting Evasive Spammers in Twitter, Muhammad Rezaul Karim and Sandra Zilles

11:35 am ‒ 11:50 am

Toward a Computational Model for Collective Emotion Regulation Based on Emotion Contagion Phenomenon, Ahmad Soleimani and Ziad Kobti

11:50 am ‒ 12:05 pm

Social Media Corporate User Identification Using Text Classification, Zhishen Yang, Jacek Wolkowicz, and Vlado Keselj

12:05 pm ‒ 12:20 pm

Experts and Machines Against Bullies: A Hybrid Approach to Detect Cyberbullies, Maral Dadvar, Dolf Trieschnigg, and Franciska De Jong

12:20 pm ‒ 2:00 pm

Lunch (provided by the conference)

Friday, May 9, 2014, Afternoon

Location: Location: Polytechnique, Lassonde building, room M-1510

2:00 pm ‒ 3:30 pm

Industrial Track

Session Chair: Alain Désilets

Room: M-1510

Poster Session

Lorne M. Trottier Atrium

ABBYY (abbyy.com), Helen Kozlova and Maria Goncharova

Apption (apption.com), Erik Putrycz and Imtiaz Fazal

North Side Inc. (northsideinc.com)

Radialpoint (radialpoint.com)

3:30 pm ‒ 4:00 pm

Coffee Break

Applications of Machine Learning

Session Chair: Diana Inkpen

4:00 pm ‒ 4:20 pm

Analysis of Feature Maps Selection in Supervised Learning Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Joseph Lin Chu and Adam Krzyzak

4:20 pm ‒ 4:40 pm

A Comparison of Multi-label Feature Selection Methods using the Random Forest Paradigm, Ouadie Gharroudi, Haytham Elghazel, and Alex Aussem

4:40 pm ‒ 5:00 pm

Task Oriented Privacy Preserving Data Publishing Using Feature Selection, Yasser Jafer, Stan Matwin, and Marina Sokolova

5:00 pm ‒ 5:15 pm

A Clustering Density-based Sample Reduction Method, Mahdi Mohammadi, Bijan Raahemi, and Ahmad Akbari

5:15 pm ‒ 5:30 pm

Convex Cardinality Restricted Boltzmann Machine and its Application to Pattern Recognition, Mina Yousefi, Adam Krzyzak, and Ching Y. Suen