CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Machine Learning (SML 2016) @IJCAI 2016 - due Apr 18

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3rd International Workshop on Semantic Machine Learning (SML 2016)
July 9-15, 2016
New York, USA
http://datam.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/sml16/
Co-located with IJCAI 2016
=====> Submissions due: Apr 18, 2016
Aim and Scope
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Learning is an important attribute of an AI system that enables it to adapt to new circumstances and to detect and extrapolate patterns. Machine Learning (ML) has seen a tremendous growth during the last few years due in part to the successful commercial deployments in products developed by major companies such as Google, Apple and Facebook. The interest has also being fuelled by the recent research breakthroughs brought about by deep learning. ML is however not a silver bullet as it is made out to be, and currently has several limitations in complex real-life situations. Some of these limitations include: i) many ML algorithms require large number of training data that are often too expensive to obtain in real-life, ii) significant effort is often required to do feature engineering to achieve high performance, iii) many ML methods are limited in their ability to exploit background knowledge, and iv) lack of a seamless way to integrate and use heterogeneous data.
Approaches that formalize data, functional and domain semantics, can tremendously aid addressing some of these limitations. The so-called semantic approaches have been increasingly investigated by various research communities and applied at different layers of ML, e.g. modeling representational semantics in vector space using deep learning architectures, and modeling domain semantics in ontology-based ML. This is complemented by the significant body of technologies and standards put together by the Semantic Web community that not only can facilitate greater industry adoption but can also enable incorporation of reasoning and inference in ML.
This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners from all these communities working on different aspects of semantic ML, to share their experiences, exchange new ideas as well as to identify key emerging topics and define future directions.
Topics
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Research papers are invited on all aspects of Semantic Machine Learning, including but not limited to the following:
 Semantic Modelling for Machine Learning
 Semantics and Deep Learning
 Ontology-based Machine Learning
 Using Linked Open Data and other Semantic Graphs for Machine Learning
 Design, Development & Reuse of Semantic Resources for ML
 Semantic Reasoning and Inference in Machine Learning
 Semantic Feature Engineering
 Representational Semantics in ML
 Semantics and Transfer Learning
 Scalability in Semantic ML
 Theory and Analysis of Semantic ML
 Demos and Case Studies
 Applications to Web, Social Media, Mobile, NLP, Vision, Healthcare, etc.
Work-in-progress, industry applications/experiences and position papers are also welcome. Please submit your paper using the SML 2016 EasyChair site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sml2016
Author Instructions
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Manuscripts should be prepared according to the IJCAI Author Guidelines (Go Here for Formatting Guidelines, LaText Styles and Word Template). Submissions must be in English and provided as a PDF file. The length of manuscripts can be upto 6 pages. Work-in-process, Demo or Position papers may be shorter in length (2-4 pages) but, if accepted, are required to be expanded to 6 pages based on reviews.
For more details: http://datam.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/sml16/
Each manuscript will be judged on its originality, significance, technical quality, relevance, and presentation. Authors are required to certify that their paper represents original work and is previously unpublished.
Submitting a paper to SML 2016 workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will register and attend the conference to present the paper.
Prospective authors are strongly encouraged to get in touch with the chairs and express their interest and seek clarifications on their queries early.
Important Dates
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Paper Submission: Apr 18, 2016
Author Notification: May 20, 2016
Camera ready: June 7, 2016
Workshop Date: July 2016
(All deadlines are 11:59PM Hawaii time.)
Workshop Organisation
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Chairs
 Rajaraman Kanagasabai, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore
 Ahsan Morshed, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Advisory Committee
 Prof Amit Sheth, Wright State University, USA
 Prof. Jane Hunter, University of Queensland, Australia
 Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
 Prof. Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Australia
Programme Committee (Under Construction)
 Armando Stellato, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
 Md.Sumon Shahriar, CSIRO, Australia
 Heiko Mueller, New York University, USA
 Flora Salim, RMIT University, Australia
 Robert Trypuz, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
 Kim Jung Jae, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
 Prem Jayaraman, RMIT University, Australia
 Dr. Sherif Sakr, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia
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