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Statistical Relational AI

Greetings, and welcome to 590AI, Autumn 2003. The seminar this quarter is held jointly with the CSE/Statistics seminar on data mining and statistical learning, and is on the topic of statistical relational AI. This a hot area whose goal is to apply probabilistic reasoning and statistical learning to powerful representations like relational databases, first-order logic, and object-oriented languages. Its applications include link-based Web search, information extraction, recommender systems, social network modeling, viral marketing, natural language processing, bioinformatics, information integration, counter-terrorism, ubiquitous computing, and many others. UW is an active center of research in this area; check out this paper for an overview.

If you're interested in AI, then be sure to sign up for this seminar!

Sign Up to Present a Paper

Every week we will present and discuss a paper from this summer's conferences. See the schedule so far and a list of suggested papers below. Sign up to present a paper by emailing Pedro (pedrod@cs.washington.edu). You can present a paper from the suggested list or propose another one. Send questions, comments and suggestions to Pedro.

Mailing List

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Meeting Time and Place

Wednesdays 4:30-5:20 in EE1 045.

Schedule

Day Paper/Topic Presenter
Oct 1 Introduction and motivation (see also this paper) Pedro Domingos
Oct 8 Review of background Matt Richardson
Oct 15 Kubica, Moore, Cohn & Schneider, Finding underlying connections: A fast graph-based method for link analysis and collaboration queries, ICML-03 Mike Cafarella
Oct 22 Kempe, Kleinberg & Tardos, Maximizing the spread of influence through a social network, KDD-03 David Kempe
Oct 29 McCallum, Efficiently inducing features of conditional random fields, UAI-03 Jeff Bilmes
Nov 5 Guestrin, Koller, Gearhart & Kanodia, Generalizing plans to new environments in relational MDPs, IJCAI-03 Mausam
Nov 12 Pasula, Marthi, Milch, Russell & Shpitser, Identity uncertainty and citation matching, NIPS-02. (See also this follow-up paper.) Lin Liao
Nov 19 Popescul & Ungar, Structural logistic regression for link analysis, KDD-03 MRDM Wkshp Deepak Verma
Nov 26 No seminar (Thanksgiving) -
Dec 3 McCallum & Wellner, Toward conditional models of identity uncertainty with application to proper noun coreference, IJCAI-03 IIW Wkshp
McCallum & Jensen, A note on the unification of information extraction and data mining using conditional-probability, relational models, IJCAI-03 SRL Wkshp
Parag
Dec 10 Hofmann, Collaborative filtering via Gaussian probabilistic latent semantic analysis, SIGIR-03 Daniel Lowd

Suggested Papers


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