Full Schedule

Thursday 18 September

Invited Talk

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

Session chair: Bart Goethals

09:00

The 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

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

Semi Supervised Learning

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

Session chair: Dunja Mladenic

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

Similarity Based Methods

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

Session chair: Eyke Hüllermeier

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

Reinforcement Learning 2

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

Session chair: Shimon Whiteson

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

Clustering 2

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

Session chair: Wray Buntine

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

Pattern Mining

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

Session chair: Toon Calders

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

Social Networks

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

Session chair: Myra Spiliopoulou

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

Multi Relational

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

Session chair: Stefan Kramer

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

Feature Selection

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

Session chair: Gerhard Paass

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

Community Meeting

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

Poster Reception 2

Thursday 18 September
19:00 - ?
Location: Elzenveld

ECML PKDD 2008

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