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Like yesterday, we bring you the best tweets covering major talks and events at IJCAI 2019.

Talks

Plenary talk by @MichelaMilano1 at @IJCAIconf on merging #DataDriven & #ModelBased #MachineLearning. #ijcai2019 #ijcai19 #EmpiricalModeling (@ Cotai Expo 金光會展 in Taipa, Macau SAR) https://t.co/4PkARooGso pic.twitter.com/BBUUmYqCu5

— William H. Hsu (@banazir) August 14, 2019

Follow the invited talk by @MichelaMilano1
at @IJCAIconf "Empirical Model Learning: merging knowledge-based and data-driven decision models through machine learning" https://t.co/FA7gR0105H pic.twitter.com/oqZLBfftZC

— IJCAIconf (@IJCAIconf) August 14, 2019

Interesting idea to use deep forest ensembles as alternative to deep neural networks. Professor Zhi-Hua Zhou during his talk about #gcForest at #IJCAI #IJCAI2019 pic.twitter.com/JpmK9LfD5W

— Tobias Daudert @ IJCAI2019 (@TobiasDaudert) August 14, 2019

Paper and Poster Presentations

Introducing the #AIglassbox: @RecklessCoding presents our paper at #ijcai2019. @bandadmoebius @frankdignum @umeauniversitet @ijcai_2019 pic.twitter.com/YiDO0giPCO

— Virginia Dignum (@vdignum) August 14, 2019

This takes place in 10 minutes! #IJCAI2019 https://t.co/P74tft80Um

— Andreas Theodorou #IJCAI2019 (@RecklessCoding) August 14, 2019

At #IJCAI2019 in Macao to attend my first conference, glad to have presented my poster "Toward Explainable Neural-Symbolic Reasoning" during NeSy19 with @NataliaDiazRodr @raja_chatila and Jean-Luc Laurent pic.twitter.com/cvvOOvhHBC

— Adrien Bennetot (@BennetotA) August 14, 2019

Today (Wednesday) at 16:30 in Macau (4:30am EDT) #IJCAI2019 https://t.co/XELxdXStEP

— Mark . Riedl (@mark_riedl) August 14, 2019

I am presenting our demo system :"DISPUTOOl: a tool for argumentative analysis in political debates" at @IJCAIconf , #IJCAI2019
Please come to our demo booth tomorrow if you are interested.
15 August, 9:30-18:00 , Hall A ,
#11044 @serena_villata@ECabrio pic.twitter.com/4y422JQf6h

— Shohreh (@ShohrehHd) August 14, 2019

Demos

Tobias Mayer from Université Côte d'Azur @uca_research is presenting a demo system on: "ACTA : a Tool for Argumentative Clinical Analysis" @IJCAIconf
Demo booth, 15 August 9:30-18:00
#11031 #argumentation #argmining #IJCAI2019 @serena_villata @ECabrio pic.twitter.com/JC57vSFnfh

— Shohreh (@ShohrehHd) August 14, 2019

50 years old IJCAI panel discussion

Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI:

"The performance of a neural network depends on the quality of its learning materials and not just on quantity. [Furthermore,] you cannot do w/ statistics, neural networks, and deep learning alone."#IJCAI2019 panel "50 years of IJCAI"#AI @IJCAIconf

— Dagmar Monett (@dmonett) August 14, 2019

Most cited papers of the first #IJCAI:#AI #IJCAI2019 @IJCAIconf pic.twitter.com/6lfs0yjvIH

— Dagmar Monett (@dmonett) August 14, 2019

Start of industry days

Plenary session and awards: @IJCAIconf #IndustryDays. #IndustrialAI #automation #MachineLearning #DataScience #AppliedAI #NLP #AI #ijcai2019 (@ Cotai Expo 金光會展 in Taipa, Macau SAR) https://t.co/JtJgv6kbVk pic.twitter.com/PMl7Hzd34a

— William H. Hsu (@banazir) August 14, 2019

Women’s Lunch

Thanks to Maria Gini ⁦@gini50883560⁩ for organizing informative sessions and the nice gathering for women in AI ⁦@IJCAIconf⁩. pic.twitter.com/SkuhyDQUuO

— Parisa Kordjamshidi (@Kordjamshidi) August 14, 2019

 
Stay tuned as I’ll be covering the conference as an AIhub ambassador.

The main IJCAI2019 conference started on August 13th. The organizers gave the opening remarks and statistics, and announced the award winners for this year.

The Opening Ceremony

#ijcai2019 opening https://t.co/ybQI1tijLS pic.twitter.com/hPTWVco1ZS

— tamura (@y7amura) August 13, 2019

Let the fun begin. #ijcai2019 @IJCAIconf pic.twitter.com/jma4pojQiG

— Rui Maranhao (@rmaranhao) August 13, 2019

It’s the start of #ijcai2019 in Macau. I was last here 22 years ago, and it’s nice to be back. Over the next 2-3 days I’m hoping to post a few links and descriptions of the exciting search work my students and colleagues will be presenting here. pic.twitter.com/BITqFR9hiM

— Nathan Sturtevant (@nathansttt) August 13, 2019

#ijcai2019 starts with a great tiger dance! pic.twitter.com/A894dolK0n

— Ashish Kulkarni (@kulashish) August 13, 2019

#IJCAI2019 has started off with a bang pic.twitter.com/7m3hVVMwEj

— Tathagata (@tchakra2) August 13, 2019

IJCAI2019 numbers

#ijcai2019 @IJCAIconf #ijcai numbers pic.twitter.com/7iQ576aRTe

— Oktie H. (@oktie) August 13, 2019

Special track

Proud of @_JSchaeffer for organizing and chairing #ijcai2019 Special Track on the #AI for Improving Human Wellbeing – critically essential research area for #humanity https://t.co/Uy7LT9DYEm #Canadian #innovation #leadership #cdnpse

— JGSchaeffer (@JGSchaeffer) August 13, 2019

Some of the IJCAI2019 Awards

Congratulations @frossi_t for winning the IJCAI Distinguished Service Award! https://t.co/R82K8IJK6T

— Marie desJardins (@mariedj17) July 26, 2019

Amedeo Cesta @cesta_rome awarded by @BarryOSullivan with #EurAI fellowship in Macau during @IJCAIconf great honour for a great researcher @StampaCnr @cnr_istc @AI_x_IA pic.twitter.com/EhLCLOeoTJ

— PST@ISTC-CNR (@CNRPst) August 13, 2019

Super proud that our paper got distinguished paper honorable mention today @IJCAIconf #ijcai2019 . Link to the paper – https://t.co/Pt7dploKl7 pic.twitter.com/nnKR8YLOsy

— Sri Krishna (@skrish_13) August 13, 2019

Talks
“Doing for robots what Evolution did for us” by Leslie Kaelbling.

Official opening session of #IJCAI2019 is over.

1000+ people listening to Leslie Kaelbling, MIT, now: keynote: "Doing for our robots what evolution did for us"

There is no single strategy for designing a general-purpose #robot but more & from different fields#AI @IJCAIconf pic.twitter.com/h1dCciWHvj

— Dagmar Monett (@dmonett) August 13, 2019

“Human-level intelligence or animal-like abilities” by Adnan Darwiche.

#ijcai2019 #day4 invited talk on ‘Reasoning about the Behavior of AI Systems' by Adnan Darwiche (UCLA) – Ijcai2019 at Cotai Expo in the Venetian Macau에서 https://t.co/fuUNU5lGqx

— Woontack Woo (우운택) (@wwoo_ct) August 13, 2019

Now live from the @IJCAIconf on #artificialintelligence "Reasoning About the Behavior of AI Systems", a talk given by Adnan Darwich. https://t.co/CIQ2MLsb6X pic.twitter.com/PZFzIxovXg

— IJCAIconf (@IJCAIconf) August 13, 2019

In his 2019 IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize talk, Matti Järvisalo nicely emphasises the enormous impact of automated reasoning in #AI and beyond and shines a bright light on one of #AI's largest intellectual and commercial successes to date. pic.twitter.com/3RehpA9HCM

— Holger Hoos (@HolgerHoos) August 13, 2019

Diversity in AI panel discussion

Thanks to panelists Edith Elkind, @pascalefung, @frossi_t, @siminyu_kat, and @TobyWalsh for a lively and stimulating panel on #diversity in #AI #ijcai2019. Lots of great ideas for ways to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion of many underrepresented groups! pic.twitter.com/cnxJxZeP46

— Marie desJardins (@mariedj17) August 13, 2019

What can be done to CHANGE the current unfortunate issues of #diversity (not only but especially) in #AI?

A lot!! #IJCAI2019 @IJCAIconf pic.twitter.com/BtVBSwSsHW

— Dagmar Monett (@dmonett) August 13, 2019

Demos and booths
Demos and booths of different companies took place next to different poster sessions.

@Sony is the main sponsor of #IJCAI2019. We are preparing our booth now. pic.twitter.com/fQYLltw56U

— Naoya Takahashi (@zuNaoya) August 12, 2019

Our fearless leaders @casey_dugan @dinahtravels Jim and Shirin in full force at the @IBMResearch booth at #IJCAI2019
https://t.co/Sm9BNbZHLQ pic.twitter.com/Z4RXoy5R5R

— Tathagata (@tchakra2) August 13, 2019

Paper presentation sessions were happening at the same time in other venues.

Robot challenge

Why buying a #robot when you can #doityourself !#robotchallenge @ #ijcai2019 pic.twitter.com/3ml3S6UsyI

— Daniele Di Mitri (@dimstudi0) August 13, 2019

 

Stay tuned as I’ll be covering the conference as an AIhub ambassador.

Here’s our daily update in tweets, live from IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) in Macau. Like yesterday, we’ll be covering tutorials and workshops.

Tutorials

Now attending the #tutorial "Argumentation and Machine Learning: When the Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts" by @CeruttiFederico, & learning about #ML mechanisms that create, annotate, analyze & evaluate arguments expressed in natural language.#AI #IJCAI2019 @IJCAIconf pic.twitter.com/XGW0msJ9xX

— Dagmar Monett (@dmonett) August 12, 2019

Getting dirty hands on the new @TensorFlow 2.0 in the Deep Learning Tutorial at #IJCAI2019 by @random_forests using Google Colab #deeplearning #machinelearning #tensorflow pic.twitter.com/dVeFiuz2PE

— Daniele Di Mitri (@dimstudi0) August 12, 2019

Workshops

Bridging2019

Now: "Dialogues with Socially Aware Robot Agents – Knowledge & Reasoning using Natural Language," an invited #IJCAI2019 talk by Prof. Kristiina Jokinen

Her start: "The quality of #intelligence possessed by humans and #AI is fundamentally different."#Bridging2019 @IJCAIconf pic.twitter.com/rBBxFpg9Tj

— Dagmar Monett (@dmonett) August 12, 2019

At the #Bridging2019 #IJCAI2019 workshop now.

The second talk by Rodolfo A. Fiorini: "New Approach to Computational Cognition and Predicative Competence."

On his second slide: #AGI "needs fresh methods with cognitive architectures and philosophy of mind."#AI @IJCAIconf pic.twitter.com/4sRnelDnSZ

— Dagmar Monett (@dmonett) August 12, 2019

HAI19

#HAI19 is now over! Amazing day with lots of great discussions, talks, poster sessions and so on!
Congratulations to Shane and Sharmila for winning the best paper and best lightning talk award!
Thank you everyone, and see you again next year! @IJCAIconf pic.twitter.com/f5tQHgseIV

— Puneet Agrawal (@puneet1622) August 12, 2019

#HAI19 is half done! Great keynotes from Rui Yan and @danmcduff – you guys gave nice insights! Very interesting Lightning Talks followed! After lunch, a poster session is lined up followed by more invited talks from @vdignum @rafal_rzepka and Pascale Fung. @IJCAIconf pic.twitter.com/XpDd5KHBQ8

— Puneet Agrawal (@puneet1622) August 12, 2019

 
SCAI Workshop

#SCAI_Workshop poster session is happening in the Hall A. Here is an approximate map on how to get there from the workshop room (2501): go behind the escalator and turn right. pic.twitter.com/mgCkUprIWp

— SCAI Workshop (@scai_workshop) August 12, 2019

Looking forward for an exciting program tomorrow at #SCAI_Workshop @IJCAIconf ! Great speakers from academia and industry! Full schedule is available at https://t.co/EyrDcGjqLN

See you all in the room 2501, right next to the escalators (detailed map available in tho Whova app).

— SCAI Workshop (@scai_workshop) August 11, 2019

Xiaoxue Zang from @GoogleAI presenting the work on multi-domain conversations #SCAI_Workshop @IJCAIconf #ijcai2019 pic.twitter.com/1Ys4Ew0fW0

— SCAI Workshop (@scai_workshop) August 12, 2019

Done with the presentation in SocialNLP 2019 @ IJCAI-2019, Macau, China.#SocialNLP @IJCAIconf #ijcai2019 @PurdueCS

Presentation Slide: https://t.co/HveK1IMgYQ

Paper link: https://t.co/43VGQllCdP pic.twitter.com/5qlHs9BaEw

— Tunazzina Islam (@Tunaz_Islam) August 12, 2019

Line: yet another messager most people in the West don't know about. 200M users and the right expertise to build a conversational system w/ Naver #SCAI_Workshop #ijcai2019 pic.twitter.com/JBMpc5tRws

— Aleksandr Chuklin (@varphi) August 12, 2019

AI4SocialGood

Tomorrow is our #IJCAI2019 workshop on #AIforSocialGood! Invited talks by @5harad, Lilian Tang, and @ermonste. https://t.co/5Vxedbh06x. Co-organized with @erichorvitz @RecklessCoding @ezinne_nwa @nhaghtal. @MilindTambe_AI @HCRCS

— Bryan Wilder (@brwilder) August 11, 2019

Thanks to @5harad a great invited talk on the difficulty of formalizing fairness! #AIforSocialGood at #IJCAI2019 pic.twitter.com/Vie7aEsk1p

— Bryan Wilder (@brwilder) August 12, 2019

#ijcai2019 #day3 workshop on ‘AI for social good’ Invited talk on ‘The Measure and Mismeasure of Fairness: A Critical Review of Fair Machine Learning’ by Sharad Goel(Stanford)
알고리듬에 따른 결정이 공정 할까요? 공정성을 확보하기 위해 주로 https://t.co/oL5Y5mYBB7

— Woontack Woo (우운택) (@wwoo_ct) August 12, 2019

Liz Bondi on game theory for conservation at the #IJCAI2019 workshop on #AIforSocialGood. @MilindTambe_AI @BDilkina @fangf07 pic.twitter.com/vZ2Q9dqVpE

— Bryan Wilder (@brwilder) August 12, 2019

Talk on fairness and efficiency in ridesharing by Xiaohui Bei at #IJCAI2019 workshop on #AIforSocialGood pic.twitter.com/xvlcAWKcYQ

— Bryan Wilder (@brwilder) August 12, 2019

. @frankdignum in the #AI4SocialGood WS #ijcai2019 talking about #AI in #healthcare. pic.twitter.com/hzcimS1Mug

— Andreas Theodorou #IJCAI2019 (@RecklessCoding) August 12, 2019

AI Safety

The Human side of AI safety: presentation by @raja_chatila at #AIsafety2019 #ijcai2019 @IJCAI_2019 pic.twitter.com/rJwq2l3tIN

— Virginia Dignum (@vdignum) August 12, 2019

DeLBP

Accepted paper 1. Implicitly Learning to Reason in First-Order Logic. Vaishak Belle and Brendan Juba #DeLBP #ijcai2019 pic.twitter.com/wNAfdCPzU7

— Guo, Quan (@guoquan_) August 12, 2019

 

Accepted paper 7. Query-driven PAC-learning for reasoning. Brendan Juba #DeLBP #ijcai2019 pic.twitter.com/t6uvCpcWUY

— Guo, Quan (@guoquan_) August 12, 2019

Semdeep5

The #semdeep5 workshop is happening right now at @IJCAIconf #ijcai2019! Proceedings are now online at the ACL Anthology website (@read_papers)! Regular papers + WiC submissions @CamachoCollados @tpilehvar @Dagmar_G @ThierryDeclerck https://t.co/vcXQVxa3vK

— Luis (@luisanke) August 12, 2019

Stay tuned as I’ll be covering the conference as an AIhub ambassador.

The first two days at IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) in Macau were focussed on workshops and tutorials. Here’s an overview in tweets.

Welcome

First demo at #ijcai2019: grad students are still superior to robots at reception desks pic.twitter.com/49beH9qBcl

— Emmanuel Hebrard (@EmmanuelHebrard) August 10, 2019

Papers

#ijcai2019 proceedings are now indexed by #dblp – https://t.co/wpB1UDDdJn

— dblp (@dblp_org) August 8, 2019

Workshops

AI Multimodal Analytics for Education

Starting off the workshop AI Multimodal Analytics 4 Education #AIMA4Edu @ #IJCAI2019 pic.twitter.com/OpxznIq6Jh

— Daniele Di Mitri (@dimstudi0) August 11, 2019

SDGs&AI

First talk of SDGs&AI workshop at #IJCAI2019 Takayoki Ito pic.twitter.com/DjfACOoayY

— Serge Stinckwich (@SergeStinckwich) August 11, 2019

AI Safety

Yang Liu "Last year Europe implementated GDPR. And we want to follow it. China and America implementated stricter privacy rules due to it." @AISafetyWS #IJCAI2019 pic.twitter.com/lh0sqJdIoH

— Andreas Theodorou #IJCAI2019 (@RecklessCoding) August 11, 2019

EduAI

@cynthiabreazeal speaks about ai education projects in MIT – I known a little belgian researcher Who would love to meet all the concerned research teams #eduai2019 #ijcai2019 pic.twitter.com/4PwMXIJOZ3

— Julie Henry (@HenryJulie) August 11, 2019

Tutorials
The AI Universe of “Actions”: Agency, Causality, Commonsense and Deception

#ijcai2019 #day2 Tutorial on ‘The AI Universe of “Actions”: Agency, Causality, Commonsense and Deception’ by Chitta Baral (ASU) and Tran Cao Son (NMSU)
끊임없이 변하는 Actions을 이해하는 것은 상황 인식, 계획, 상식, 인과 추론 등 AI 전분야에서 핵심적인 https://t.co/qQIzqLaLkW

— Woontack Woo (우운택) (@wwoo_ct) August 11, 2019

An Introduction to Formal Argumentation

Martin Caminada explaining the "preferred discussion game" at @IJCAIconf tutorial "an introduction to formal argumentation"#ijcai2019 #argumentation pic.twitter.com/2eSeKoZdbQ

— Shohreh (@ShohrehHd) August 11, 2019

AI Ethics

Lots of applications rise #ethical concerns, @razzrboy show and comment some of them.#AI #AIEthics #IJCAI_2019 @IJCAIconf pic.twitter.com/OOr2EUUsBE

— Dagmar Monett (@dmonett) August 11, 2019

Interesting tutorial about #AIEthics at #IJCAI2019 pic.twitter.com/GnjDuj6OFN

— Nedjma Ousidhoum (@nedjmaou) August 11, 2019

Last Q&A part running now.

"As #AI has a growing impact on society, important #ethical issues arise, [but they] are tricky, lack of right methodological tools."

"Speculation about the future of #AI is fun, but not very productive." @razzrboy#AIEthics @IJCAIconf #IJCAI2019 pic.twitter.com/IYAImvWFG6

— Dagmar Monett (@dmonett) August 11, 2019

 
Congratulations to the authors of the announced best workshop papers!

Surprised and happy to receive the *best paper award* at the AIMA4EDU workshop at #IJCAI2019 today in Macao. Thanks to @zpardos and @kpthaiphd for hosting and to @SuperHeroBooth @marcuspecht and @HDrachsler for the support!#Multimodal #Pipeline wins again :-) pic.twitter.com/KahgrDsLZ0

— Daniele Di Mitri (@dimstudi0) August 11, 2019

 

Congratulations @aloreggia #NickMattei @frossi_t #KBrentVenable! Well-deserved! @CSERCambridge @AAIP_York @IJCAIconf #ijcai2019 #aiethics #AIFATES #aies #AIandSociety https://t.co/v0WU9tP2lp

— William H. Hsu (@banazir) August 11, 2019

 

Stay tuned as I’ll be covering the conference as an AIhub ambassador.