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The 2019 Artificial Intelligence for Data Discovery and Reuse conference , supported by the National Science Foundation , was held in Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburg, PA, between May 13 and May 15, 2019. It is called a conference, but it is more like a workshop. There are only plenary meetings (and a small session of posters) and the presentations are not all about frontiers of research. Many of them are research reviews and the speakers are trying to connect them with "data reuse". The presenters are in various domains, from text mining to computer vision, from medical imaging to self-driving cars, etc. Another difference from regular CS conferences in that the accepted presenter list is made only based on the abstracts they submitted. The full papers are submitted later.  Because CiteSeerX collects a lot of data from the Web, our group does a lot of work on information extraction, classification, and reuses a lot of data for training AI models, Dr. Lee Giles re

The  33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence , the 31st  Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, and the  9th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence were held  at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii. I have one paper accepted by IAAI 2019 on Cleaning Noisy and Heterogeneous Metadata for Record Linking across Scholarly Big Datasets, coauthored with Athar Sefid (my student at PSU), Jing Zhao (my mentee at PSU), Lu Liu (a graduate student who published a Nature Letter),  Cornelia Caragea (my collaborator at UIC),  Prasenjit Mitra , and  C. Lee Giles .  This year, AAAI receives the greatest number of submissions -- 7095 which doubles the submission in 2018. There are 18191 reviews collected and over 95% papers have 3 reviews. There are 1147 papers accepted, which takes 16.2% of all submissions. This is the lowest acceptance rate in history. There are in total 122 technical sessions, 460 oral presentations (15 min talk) and

The IEEE Big Data 2018 was held in the Westin Seattle Hotel between December 10 and December 13, 2018. There are more than 1100 people registered. The accepting rates vary between 13% to 24%, with an average rate of 19%. I have a poster accepted titled “CiteSeerX-2018: A Cleansed Multidisciplinary Scholarly Big Dataset”, co-authored with C. Lee Giles , two of his graduate students ( Bharath and Shaurya ), as well as an undergraduate student who produced preliminary results ( Jianyu Mao ). I attended the conference on Day 2 and Day 3 and left the conference hotel after the keynote on Day 3. Insights from Personal Meetings The most important thing to attend conferences is to meet with old friends and know new friends. Old friends I met include Kyle Williams (Microsoft Bing), Mu Qiao (IBM, chair of I&G track), Yang Song (Google AI, co-chair of I&G track), Manlin Li (Google Cloud), and Madian Khabsa (Apple Siri).  Kyle introduced the recent project on recomme

Mat Kelly reports on his recent trip to Washington, DC for the CNI Fall 2018 meeting                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           ⓖⓞⓖⓐⓣⓞⓡⓢ I ( Mat Kelly, @machawk1 ) attended my first CNI ( #cni18f ) meeting on December 10-11, 2018, an atypical venue for a PhD student, and am reporting my trip experience (also see previous trip reports from Fall 2017 , Spring 2017 , Spring 2016 , Fall 2015 , and Fall 2009 ). Dr. Nelson ( @phonedude_mln ) and I left Norfolk, VA for DC, previously questioning whether the roads would be clear from unseasonably significant snow storm the night before (they were): The roads are clear but snowy as @phonedude_mln and I make our way to DC