Some interesting conferences you may explore for papers to present:

• ACL/HLT (Association of Computational Linguistics/Human Language Technologies
• AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) and JAMIA
• ACM SIGIR (Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval)
• AIRS - Asian Information Retrieval
• ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning)
• ICWSM (AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media)
• ACM KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining)
• WWW (World Wide Web Conference)
• WSDM (ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining)
• TREC Proceedings
• arXiV

Goal: To study current papers from journals and conference proceedings in text retrieval and text mining. Examples of problems include topic models, web retrieval and web mining, ranking strategies, ambiguity resolution, knowledge discovery, web phenomenon including social networks, information extraction and text classification. The reading group is lead by Professor Padmini Srinivasan. Interested students (from beginning to advanced students) and faculty are invited to participate in the reading group. Participation format is informal with individuals taking turns to present an overview of the selected paper and lead the discussion. This forum has resulted in collaborative projects and published papers.

1. August 24: (Warm up meeting) UCC-2520C-Conf
• Tell the group about the one best paper you read over the summer holidays.
2. August 31: Huyen Le, UCC-2520C-Conf
• He et al., The Tower of Babel.jpg: Diversity of Visual Encyclopedic Knowledge Across Wikipedia Language Editions, ICWSM, 2018
3. September 7: Hoeyun Kwon, UCC-2520C-Conf
• Cordts, M., Omran, M., Ramos, S., Rehfeld, T., Enzweiler, M., Benenson, R., ... & Schiele, B. (2016). The cityscapes dataset for semantic urban scene understanding. In Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition (pp. 3213-3223).
4. September 14: Momina Tabish - UCC-2520C-Conf
• Miotto, R., Li, L., Kidd, B. A., & Dudley, J. T. (2016). Deep patient: an unsupervised representation to predict the future of patients from the electronic health records. Scientific reports, 6, 26094.
5. September 21: Jonathan Russert - UCC-2520B-Conf
• Barbieri, F., Espinosa-Anke, L., Ballesteros, M., & Saggion, H. (2017). Towards the understanding of gaming audiences by modeling Twitch emotes. In Third Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2017); 2017 Sep 7; Copenhagen, Denmark. Stroudsburg (PA): ACL; 2017. p. 11-20.. ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics).
6. September 28: Dat Hong - 341-Hist IA River Rm
• Chakraborty, Abhijnan et al. "Who Makes Trends? Understanding Demographic Biases in Crowdsourced Recommendations." ICWSM (2017).
7. October 5: Osama Khalid - UCC-2520B-Conf
• Conneau, A., Lample, G., Ranzato, M. A., Denoyer, L., & Jégou, H. (2017). Word translation without parallel data. arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.04087.
8. October 12: Dr. Ahmed Abbasi - W107 PBB (9:30-11:00 AM) (a part of the UI3 Seminar Series)
• Finding Needles in a Haystack: Deep Learning for Rare Adverse Event Detection
9. October 19: Ingroj Shrestha - 337 Schaeffer Hall
• Tran, T., & Kavuluru, R. (2017). Predicting mental conditions based on "history of present illness" in psychiatric notes with deep neural networks. Journal of biomedical informatics, 75, S138-S148.
10. October 26: Asad Mahmood UCC-2520C-Conf
• Guo, J., Lu, S., Cai, H., Zhang, W., Yu, Y., & Wang, J. (2017). Long text generation via adversarial training with leaked information. arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.08624.
11. November 2: Jonathan Rusert - UCC-2520B-Conf
• Su, J., Shukla, A., Goel, S., & Narayanan, A. (2017, April). De-anonymizing web browsing data with social networks. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web (pp. 1261-1269). International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee.
12. November 9: Dat Hong - UCC-2520B-Conf
• Seo, M., Kembhavi, A., Farhadi, A., & Hajishirzi, H. (2016). Bidirectional attention flow for machine comprehension. arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.01603.
13. November 16: Ingroj Shrestha - UCC-2520B-Conf
• Sahu, S. K., & Anand, A. (2018). Drug-drug interaction extraction from biomedical texts using long short-term memory network. Journal of biomedical informatics, 86, 15-24.
14. November 23: THANKSGIVING
15. November 30: Asad Mahmood - UCC-2520B-Conf
• Li, J., Ji, S., Du, T., Li, B., & Wang, T. TEXTBUGGER: Generating Adversarial Text Against Real-world Applications.
16. December 7: Jonathan Rusert - UCC-2520B-Conf
• Ghosh, A., & Veale, T. (2018). IronyMagnet at SemEval-2018 Task 3: A Siamese network for Irony detection in Social media. In Proceedings of The 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (pp. 570-575).