Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

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

On January 18, 2019, the Web Science and Digital Libraries Group hosted Prof. Ed Fox from Va Tech for the colloquium " Integrating Research and Education Regarding Global Event and Trend Archiving ".  After the colloquium we had a working lunch where three of our PhD students briefed Dr. Fox on their current status.  Photos and links are included in the Twitter thread below. --Michael . @WebSciDL was honored to host @edwardafox of @VT_CS for a @oducs colloquium "Integrating Research and Education Regarding Global Event and Trend Archiving" pic.twitter.com/nxWQLF4TdF — Michael L. Nelson (@phonedude_mln) January 19, 2019 Our distinguished speaker today at CS colloquium, Prof. Ed Fox  from Virginia Tech @VT_CS @WebSciDL @oducs pic.twitter.com/cpercRJCgf — Sampath Jayarathna (@OpenMaze) January 18, 2019 We had a working lunch afterwards where four @WebSciDL PhD students briefed Prof. Fox on their research status. pic.twitter.com/qMiLgUWZNq

We had a great #jcdl2018 / #wadl2018 / @jcdl2018 ! Here is the 2018 @WebSciDL reunion photo, but we're getting so large we weren't all there at once! Not pictured: Incoming fac (Fall 2018): @OpenMaze @fanchyna Alum: @johnaberlin See you June 2-6, 2019 @iSchoolUI @JCDLConf pic.twitter.com/GmKpqKg0Zs — Michael L. Nelson (@phonedude_mln) June 7, 2018 Morning commute @ODU @WebSciDL #BombCyclone pic.twitter.com/4VXFDq8xvj — Alexander C. Nwala (@acnwala) January 4, 2018 The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group had a strong year, with the most significant event being our expansion from two professors to four.  Beginning in Fall 2018, we added two new assistant professors: Dr. Sampath Jayarathna ( @OpenMaze ) joined us from the CSDL of Texas A&M and  most recently from California State Polytechnic University (Cal Poly Pomona).  Dr. Jian Wu ( @fanchyna ) joined us from the CiteSeerX group at  Penn State University.  We're very l