The Cognitive Information Analytics and Health Informatics Departments at IBM Research - Haifa cordially invite you to a full-day seminar on machine learning, to be held on Monday, November 7th, 2016. The seminar will take place in the auditorium of IBM Research – Haifa on the University of Haifa campus, from 09:30 to 18:00.
Lunch and light refreshments will be served. Participation is free but registration is required.
The seminar will be collocated with the IBM Research Cognitive Computing colloquium on Computer Vision and Video Technologies to be held on November 6th, 2016.
Seminar Organizers
Posters Chair
Local Arrangements
Program
09:15 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 10:15 Opening Remarks
Dr. Michal Rosen-Zvi, Director, Health Informatics, IBM Research – Haifa
10:15 – 10:45 Collective Entity Resolution with Multi-Focal Attention
Prof. Amir Globerson, Tel Aviv University
10:45 – 11:45 Keynote: Marrying Deep Learning with Graphical Models
Prof. Max Welling, University of Amsterdam, UC Irvine and CIFAR
11:45 – 12:00 Break
12:00 – 12:30 Natural Language Programming (NLPRO): Models for translating natural language text into executable code
Dr. Reut Tsarfaty, The Open University
12:30 – 13:00 Fine-grained Analysis of Sentence Embeddings Using Auxiliary Prediction Tasks
Dr. Einat Kermany, IBM Research – Haifa
13:00 – 13:30 Automatic enrichment of a Knowledge Base with descriptive texts using Ontological Constraints
Dr. Einat Minkov, Haifa University
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:00 Software Geology for Malware Detection
Dr. Eitan Menahem, IBM Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, Beer-Sheva
15:00 – 15:30 "For Your Eyes Only": Content Popularity vs. Facebook Share-ability in Click Prediction Modeling
Dr. Roy Sasson, Outbrain
15:30 – 16:00 ALOOF: Leave-One-Out Tree Splitting Criteria for Predictive Modeling
Prof. Saharon Rosset, Tel Aviv University and Final
16:00 – 16:15 Closing Remarks
Dr. Aya Soffer, Director, Big Data and Cognitive Analytics, IBM Research – Haifa
16:15 – 17:30 Poster Session
Call for Posters
Authors who wish to present a poster are invited to submit an abstract of their work for review. Submissions of academic research, work in progress, technical work, and industrial pitches are accepted.
Submission guidelines: Please send a one-page PDF or Word document with a title and description (abstract) to ORENSR@il.ibm.com, by October 25th, 2016.
Important Dates
Poster submission deadline
October 25th, 2016
Registration deadline
October 31st, 2016
Seminar
November 7th, 2016
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