Reminder, the submission deadline for the Seventh Workshop on
Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence (http://www.starai.org)
at UAI is coming up in two days. See the CFP below:
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Seventh Workshop on Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence
(StaRAI), August 15 2017, Sydney.
Co-located with UAI-17
Workshop Webpage: http://www.starai.org
The purpose of the Statistical Relational AI (StarAI) workshop is to
bring together researchers and practitioners from two fields: logical
(or relational) AI and probabilistic (or statistical) AI. These fields
share many key features and often solve similar problems and tasks.
Until recently, however, research in them has progressed independently
with little interaction. The fields often use different terminology for
the same concepts and, as a result, keeping-up and understanding the
results in the other field is cumbersome, thus slowing down research.
Our long term goal is to change this by achieving a synergy between
logical and statistical AI. As a stepping stone towards realizing this
big picture view on AI, we are organizing the Seventh International
Workshop on Statistical Relational AI at the Conference on Uncertainty
in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) in Sydney, on August 15th 2017.
PRACTICAL:
StarAI will be a one day workshop with around 50 attendees, paper
presentations and poster spotlights, a poster session, and three invited
speakers. Authors should submit either a full paper reporting on novel
technical contributions or work in progress (AAAI style, up to 6 pages
excluding references), a short position paper (AAAI style, up to 2 pages
excluding references), or an already published work (verbatim, no page
limit, citing original work) in PDF format via EasyChair.
Key Dates:
* Papers due: June 22, 2017
* Notification: July 1, 2017
* Camera-ready due: August 1, 2017
* Day of Workshop: August 15, 2017
Submission site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=starai2017
All submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by multiple
reviewers and low-quality or off-topic papers will be rejected. Papers
will be selected either for a short oral presentation or a poster
presentation.
For more information, please see the workshop website:
http://www.starai.org/
INVITED SPEAKERS (tentative):
- Lise Getoor (University of California, Santa Cruz)
- Maximilian Nickel (MIT)
TOPICS:
StarAI is currently provoking a lot of new research and has tremendous
theoretical and practical implications. Theoretically, combining logic
and probability in a unified representation and building general-purpose
reasoning tools for it has been the dream of AI, dating back to the late
1980s. Practically, successful StarAI tools will enable new applications
in several large, complex real-world domains including those involving
big data, social networks, natural language processing, bioinformatics,
the web, robotics and computer vision. Such domains are often
characterized by rich relational structure and large amounts of
uncertainty. Logic helps to effectively handle the former while
probability helps effectively manage the
latter. We seek to invite researchers in all subfields of AI to attend
the workshop and to explore together how to reach the goals imagined by
the early AI pioneers.
The focus of the workshop will be on general-purpose representation,
reasoning and learning tools for StarAI as well as practical
applications. Specifically, the workshop will encourage active
participation from researchers in the following communities:
satisfiability (SAT), knowledge representation (KR), constraint
satisfaction and programming (CP), (inductive) logic programming (LP and
ILP), graphical models and probabilistic reasoning (UAI), statistical
learning (NIPS and ICML), graph mining (KDD and ECML PKDD) and
probabilistic databases (VLDB and SIGMOD). It will also actively involve
researchers from more applied communities, such as natural language
processing (ACL and EMNLP), information retrieval (SIGIR, WWW and WSDM),
vision (CVPR and ICCV), semantic web (ISWC and ESWC) and robotics (RSS
and ICRA).
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Angelika Kimmig (Cardiff University and KU Leuven)
David Poole (University of British Columbia)
Jay Pujara (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Tim Rocktaeschel (University of Oxford)
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