AIDR2019: Artificial Intelligence for Data Discovery and Reuse Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, United States, May 13-15, 2019 |
Conference website | https://events.library.cmu.edu/aidr2019/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aidr2019 |
Submission deadline | February 22, 2019 |
Supported by the NSF scientific data reuse initiative, AIDR (Artificial Intelligence for Data Discovery and Reuse) 2019 is a conference aiming to find innovative solutions to accelerate the dissemination and reuse of scientific data in the data revolution. The explosion in the volume of scientific data have made it increasingly challenging to find data scattered across various platforms. At the same time, increasing numbers of new data formats, greater data complexity, lack of consistent data standards across disciplines, metadata or links between data and publications makes it even more challenging to evaluate data quality, reproduce results, and reuse data for new discoveries. AIDR 2019 provides a platform for AI/ML researchers, data professionals, and scientists to come together and benefit from mutual expertise to address these data challenges and to facilitate the next breakthroughs in science and technology using the power of AI and scientific data.
Important Dates
(All deadlines are 11:59pm EST)
Submission deadline: February 1, 2019 February 22, 2019
Author notification: February 28, 2019 March 8, 2019
Early bird registration deadline: March 15, 2019 March 22, 2019
Conference: May 13-15, 2019
Submission Guidelines
The conference program committee invites submissions for presentations and panels that address applications of AI/ML to challenges related to the discovery, reuse and management of data across disciplinary domains. Innovative algorithms, tools and platforms, and successful use cases, especially those related to biomedical data, are of great interest. Quality submissions from academia, industry and other communities are all welcomed.
Abstracts for the followings format are accepted:
- Long Talks: Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present at one of the plenary sessions. The content of the talk should focus on original research and finished work. Talks will range in length from 30-45 min.
- Short Talks: Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present at one of the lighting talk sessions. Submission of relevant work in progress is encouraged for short talks. Talks will range in length from 10-20 min.
- Posters: Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present during a poster session.
- Panel Discussions: Submissions for panel discussions should include background and significance of the topic being discussed, and a (preliminary) list of panelists. Panel Discussions should focus on topics that engage different communities and stimulate discussions on emerging topics, technical trends, and pressing issues.
Abstracts for long talks, short talks and posters should not exceed 400 words and include a title and abstract. Abstracts for panel discussions should not exceed 500 words.
Student Competitions: All talks and posters for which an undergraduate or graduate student is a lead author will be included in competitions for the best long talk, best short talk, and best poster awards, evaluated by reviewers identified by the program committee.
List of Topics
Topics that the conference will address include but are not limited to:
- Automating data discovery: Going beyond simple search, how can AI help to find data that are described in different ways, languages, and formats?
- Automating data curation and metadata generation: How can AI provide more robust and more precise tools for provenance, data-driven metadata, (machine-readable) documentation, and curation?
- Measuring and improving data quality: How can AI help to assess data quality, provide recommendations for increasing data quality and tools for doing so, and quantify data quality for consideration as it is being reused?
- Integrating datasets: As relevant data are discovered, how can AI help with their fusion, including factors such as ontology, format, units, and language?
- Enabling interpretability: How can AI contribute to representation of information that is both machine readable and human readable?
- Measuring data metrics and citation: How are data citations tracked and linked to publications? How is the impact of research data evaluated?
- Data privacy, security and algorithmic bias: what are their ethical implications and how can they be avoided?
- Collaborating across disciplinary and expertise domains: How do professionals from different domains work together?
Areas with great potential of addressing these challenges include but are not limited to:
- Natural language processing to aid in the discovery of data and its interpretation, information-extraction, and generation of ontology, taxonomy and knowledge base
- Inference of data types and where they fit into ontologies, and automatically creating more precise, machine-readable metadata from that information
- Measuring, reporting, and improving data quality through identification and potential cleaning of missing or possibly erroneous values
- Inference-based conversion of formats, ranging from simple cases such as unit conversions to more complex cases such as working with data represented using different geographical frames
- Tools for visually representing data quickly and intuitively, to help with understanding unfamiliar datasets and the results of analytics
- Human-in-the-loop methods applied to all the above for semi-supervised training, potentially leading to greater degrees of autonomy
Review Process
Abstracts and proposals will be reviewed by the program committee, which consists of experts in the areas of AI, scientific computing, computational biology, research data management, and information science and technology. Contributions will be selected based on quality and relevance. Notification of acceptance will be made by February 28, 2019 March 8, 2019.
Authors of selected accepted abstracts will be invited (but not mandatory) to submit a full article for peer-reviewed conference proceedings after the conference. Please do not submit papers with the initial submission of your abstract. The submitted articles will be reviewed by expert reviewers who will be selected by the program committee. The decision of acceptance is made by the program committee based on the common academic standards as novelty and scientific quality.
Committee Members
General Chair:
Huajin Wang, Carnegie Mellon University
Program Co-chairs:
Keith Webster, Carnegie Mellon University
Nick Nystrom, Pittsburgh Super Computing Center
Huajin Wang, Carnegie Mellon University
Program Committee:
Paola Buitrago, Pittsburgh Super Computing Center
Sayeed Choudhury, Jonhs Hopkins University
Sean Davis, National Cancer Institute
Fei Fang, Carnegie Mellon University
Andreas Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University
Organizing Committee:
Neelam Bharti, Carnegie Mellon University
Michelle Delvin, Pittsburgh Super Computing Center
Ann Marie Mesco, Carnegie Mellon University
Sarah Young, Carnegie Mellon University
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to huajinw@cmu.edu or aidr2019@andrew.cmu.edu