#IJCAI2019 last days in tweets

August 16, 2019

#IJCAI2019 ended today. Besides talks, panel discussions, and presentations; the winners of this year’s prestigious IJCAI awards shared their opinions about relevant future directions in the field.

Then, the closing ceremony took place and the winners of the best demo and video awards have been announced. Congratulations to the researchers!

Here are the best tweets of the last two days of IJCAI 2019.

Talks yesterday

Excellent invited talk at #ijcai2019 by Giuseppe De Giacomo on queryable self-deliberating #AI systems. pic.twitter.com/ce64c0QZd3

— CLAIRE (@vision_claire) August 15, 2019

Paper presentations

.@wang_wenwu presenting our paper "Single-Channel Signal Separation and Deconvolution with Generative Adversarial Networks" w @QiuqiangK, Yong Xu, @drphilipjackson in session ML|DL Deep Learning 7 16:30-18:00 (L) #IJCAI2019 #IJCAI19 https://t.co/0TZ6GorQ5B pic.twitter.com/VG5Hwizn53

— Mark Plumbley (@markplumbley) August 15, 2019

There are many cases which don't require complex #ML models.
Roni Stern providing a good overview about heuristic search algorithms at #IJCAI #IJCAI2019 pic.twitter.com/x26fGvKr32

— Tobias Daudert @ IJCAI2019 🇲🇴 (@TobiasDaudert) August 15, 2019

Eoin Kenny presenting Kenny & Keane’s paper “Twin systems to explain artificial neural networks using case-based reasoning” in the Explainable Machine Learning session at #IJCAI2019 @ijcaiconf in #Macao @keanema @insight_centre @vistamilk pic.twitter.com/2ADjioa1KC

— Ruth MJ Byrne (@ruthmjbyrne) August 15, 2019

Although risk prediction from textual information is one of the main applications in financial #NLProc current research still depends heavily on dictionaries!
For this task @cktheil #PRoFET uses a combination of earnings call transcripts and financial data #IJCAI #IJCAI2019 pic.twitter.com/a3B30AdK8c

— Tobias Daudert @ IJCAI2019 🇲🇴 (@TobiasDaudert) August 15, 2019

@aldlatour explains us how to have as many people as possible buying our ice-cream at #IJCAI2019 pic.twitter.com/SG2W1YknDz

— MIA Anastacio (@_MIA_An_) August 15, 2019

Talks today

Automation of scientific discovery – possibly the most impactful use of #AI. Fascinating talk by Hiroaki Kitano at #ijcai2019. pic.twitter.com/E9d19ITkMQ

— Holger Hoos (@HolgerHoos) August 16, 2019

Final stages of Nobel Turing Test by @HKitano at #ijcai19 pic.twitter.com/ayT8G1ESF4

— Mikhail Burtsev (@MikhailBurtsev) August 16, 2019

Presentations

Our paper (https://t.co/Igg4nkqd9i) will be presented at #IJCAI19, Friday 16, 11:00 -12:30 in the ML|LPR session@AlexGaoYang, @UKPLab

Reward Learning for Efficient Reinforcement Learning in Extractive Document Summarisation

— Mohsen Mesgar (@MohsenMes) August 15, 2019

The interesting presentation about online learning to rank in the nonstationary environment is coming in Room 2704. Come and check! #ijcai2019 #ijcai19

— Chang (@ChangLi_CL) August 16, 2019

Employing a joint model to automatically extract opinion targets and detect their sentiments sounds like a "two birds one stone" approach. I'd still like to see a comparison with two separate models when it comes to the error for margin & computing time #IJCAI #IJCAI2019 #NLProc pic.twitter.com/6RU0W1bUBr

— Tobias Daudert @ IJCAI2019 🇲🇴 (@TobiasDaudert) August 16, 2019

Career Talks

Shirin Sohrabi of @IBMResearch @IBM presenting applications of automated planning in the industry in her #IJCAI2019 Early Career Spotlight talk @IJCAIconf. Best of #AI planning. ✊ pic.twitter.com/BxjkmPMKXe

— Tathagata (@tchakra2) August 15, 2019

Award-winning talks

Quite remarkable that all 3 awarded speakers at @IJCAIconf (Guy van den Broeck, Pedro Domingos and Yoav Shoham) focused their talks on bridging NNs with Logic/KR. #ijcai2019 pic.twitter.com/ufTDAN5VLK

— Daniel Loureiro (@danielbloureiro) August 16, 2019

#ijcai2019 #day7 Last session on Award Talks
– Computers & Thought Award: Guy van den Broeck (UCLA) “Logic-Learning Continuum에서 새로운 기회를!”
– J. McCarthy Award: Pedro Domingos (UW)
– Research Excellence Award: Yoav https://t.co/MaNEe4zGw3

— Woontack Woo (우운택) (@wwoo_ct) August 16, 2019

Congratulations! The winner of #IJCAI19 John McCarthy Award is Pedro @pmddomingos, @UW Prof. Domingos is recognized for contributions to machine learning & data science, & to unifying logic and probability. Also a M&C author of Markov Logic https://t.co/tICZ8lYrE1 pic.twitter.com/X2Btdt3iba

— Morgan & Claypool (@MorganClaypool) August 15, 2019

DTAI alumnus @guyvdb accepting the Computers & Thought award at #ijcai2019. Congratulations Guy for this prestigious award! pic.twitter.com/PqXKlTu7SC

— DTAI (@DTAI_KULeuven) August 16, 2019

The winner of #IJCAI19 Award for Research Excellence is Yoav Shoham @yshoham . Prof. Shoham is recognized for contributions to knowledge representation, multi-agent systems, & t economic foundations of AI. He is also author of Essentials of Game Theory. https://t.co/hD2hG4SaRn pic.twitter.com/tsjW4GtHD4

— Morgan & Claypool (@MorganClaypool) August 15, 2019

Best video and demo awards

Our #ijcai19 demo paper, "VEST: A System for Vulnerability Exploit Scoring & Timing" has been awarded Demonstration Innovation Award runner-up. Excellent work from @ruiliu310 ! Congrats! @IJCAIconf @vssubrah @ISTS_Dartmouth @NoseongPark pic.twitter.com/o8wfZW82TJ

— Haipeng Chen @Dartmouth (@HaipengChen2) August 16, 2019

Happy to announce that our Demo,"DISPUTOOL: a tool for argumentative analysis of political debates" got nominated for the "Application Impact reward" and got the second place at #IJCAI2019 @IJCAIconf @ShohrehHd @serena_villata @ECabrio @uni_lu @uca_research @Laboratoire_I3S

— Serena Villata (@serena_villata) August 16, 2019

#IJCAI2019 demo and video awards @IJCAIconf @aihuborg pic.twitter.com/xOO0ChYDBQ

— Nedjma Ousidhoum (@nedjmaou) August 16, 2019

#IJCAI2019 final numbers and closing ceremony

More than 3,000 AI scholars and industry leaders gathered at @IJCAIconf in Macau to discuss the status quo and future of artificial intelligence. Here is a report from IceKredit, Inc. https://t.co/e6VWYZkHz7 pic.twitter.com/sXdgk5KVRU

— IJCAIconf (@IJCAIconf) August 16, 2019

The #IJCAI main track submissions from 2007 until 2019, a considerable increase!

2007: 1365
2009: 1291(-5 %)
2011: 1325 (+3 %)
2013: 1473 (+11 %)
2015: 1996 (+36 %)
2016: 2296 (+15 %)
2017: 2540 (+11 %)
2018: 3470 (+37 %)
2019: 4752 (+37 %)#IJCAI2019 @IJCAIconf

— Tobias Daudert @ IJCAI2019 🇲🇴 (@TobiasDaudert) August 16, 2019