#CIKM2023
The PhD Consortium at (#CIKM2023 (@cikm2023.bsky.social) was great with amazing students!
Haiming Liu and me - who co-chaired the symposium - published a report and some takeaway messages for the future: sigir.org/wp-content/u...
Thanks to everyone involved, particularly the students!
January 17, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Last week, we had an intense full day at the
@cikm2023.bsky.social PhD Symposium with fruitful discussions.
Great job by all students! 👍
Thank you to all mentors for their valuable insights. I heard tremendously positive feedback. 🙏🙂

Shout out to my co-chair Haiming Liu - great collaboration. 💪
October 28, 2023 at 11:58 AM
In #CIKM2023 Day 3, @ifromm.bsky.social welcomes the crowd and Frank Hopfgartner welcomes Steffen Staab as the keynote. Frank cites Steffen as one of the most cite computer scientists and a thought-leader in the field of web science.

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steffen...
October 25, 2023 at 8:53 AM
Welcome to Day #3 of #CIKM2023! @ifromm.bsky.social gives a run-down of the final day of the conference with a keynote by Steffen Staab, the CIKM business meeting for reflection and the future of the conf, more sessions, and a conference closing.
October 25, 2023 at 8:42 AM
Jiaqi describes their distributed attention mechanism for propagation in identify social media anomalies. #CIKM2023
October 24, 2023 at 11:20 AM
Jiaqi Zhu (from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) describes their work to identify anomalous actors in social media networks by modeling nodes & neighbors using hidden states. Their model encodes both updating and propagation of interaction information. #CIKM2023
October 24, 2023 at 11:20 AM
Yulan He discusses calculating epistemic uncertainty in her #CIKM2023 keynote and describes the PLM Classifier Uncertainty Explanation (CUE) framework.
October 24, 2023 at 10:02 AM
The HINT model can split sentences with mixed sentiment. Yulan He discusses her model that is fine-tuned for classification. #CIKM2023
October 24, 2023 at 10:01 AM
Yulan He overviews what they will cover in today's #CIKM2023 keynote: a classifier w/ interpretability, pre-training/fine-tuning, in-context learning, and leveraging the models for explainable recommendation.
October 24, 2023 at 9:59 AM
In the #CIKM2023 Day 2 keynote, Yulan He begins by providing a summary of language model pre-training and fine-tuning.
October 24, 2023 at 9:58 AM
The Calm Before the Crowd: bracing for the start of #CIKM2023 Day 2 and the keynote by Yulan He.
October 24, 2023 at 9:56 AM
@ifromm.bsky.social opens #CIKM2023 Day Two with a preview of the conference banquet tonight at Aston Villa Football Club.
October 24, 2023 at 9:55 AM
That wraps up the presentations for #CIKM2023 Day 1. Join us in Affinity 1 for the posters and demos!
October 23, 2023 at 5:23 PM
Time for another #CIKM2023 coffee break! Join us back at 4:30 pm for the final sessions of the day on Knowledge Discovery and Retrieval, Users & Behaviour, Transfer Learning, Computer Vision, User Modelling, Knowledge Representation, Sequence Modelling, & Recommendation.
October 23, 2023 at 5:22 PM
#CIKM2023 attendees will now split into 8 concurrent sessions for the first (10:30-12:30) presentation slot. See uobevents.eventsair.com/cikm2023/pro... to choose your session and a summary of each respective set of presentations.
October 23, 2023 at 5:22 PM
And now for a coffee break following the completion of Chirag Shah's #CIKM2023 keynote.
October 23, 2023 at 5:22 PM
In his #CIKM2023 keynoteChirag Shah (UWashington) shows when using ChatGPT, it lack of confidence in answering when the system is questioned. "If I don't have the literacy to question the answer, I may not realize this is all wrong."
October 23, 2023 at 9:41 AM
Brisk (41°F) morning for the second day of the #CIKM2023 pre-conference (workshops & industry day) in Birmingham, UK but it's finally not raining, so I'll take it!
October 22, 2023 at 7:44 AM
Kislay Raj is presenting their PhD research, "A neuro-symbolic approach to enhance Interpretability of Graph neural network through the integration of external knowledge" at the #CIKM2023 PhD Symposium.
October 21, 2023 at 1:36 PM
And the fifth ongoing #CIKM2023 tutorial is Reasoning beyond Triples: Recent Advances in Knowledge Graph Embeddings

Site: kg-beyond-triple.github.io
October 21, 2023 at 10:34 AM
The fourth ongoing tutorial at #CIKM2023 is on Leveraging Graph Neural Networks for User Profiling: Recent Advances and Open Challenges

Site: beyondaccuracy-userprofiling.github.io/tutorial-cik...
GitHub: github.com/beyondaccuracy
October 21, 2023 at 10:33 AM
Also ongoing, the tutorial Data Augmentation for Conversational AI tutorial at #CIKM2023

Site: dataug-convai.github.io
Write-up: dataug-convai.github.io/src/DAConvAI...
October 21, 2023 at 10:32 AM
Another ongoing #CIKM2023 Tutorial: Some Useful Things to Know When Combining IR and NLP: the Easy, the Hard and the Ugly

GitHub with slides, write-up, and more: github.com/kwchurch/CIK...
October 21, 2023 at 10:31 AM
Ongoing #CIKM2023 Tutorial: Proactive Streaming Analytics at Scale: A Journey from the State-of-the-art to a Production Platform

Site: softnet.tuc.gr/en/research/... Summary: softnet.tuc.gr/fileadmin/user
October 21, 2023 at 10:30 AM
Ready for the first day of #cikm2023 pre-conference at University of Birmingham with a plethora of tutorials ranging from IR+NLP to AI and Knowledge Graphs and much more!

uobevents.eventsair.com/cikm2023/pre...
October 21, 2023 at 8:21 AM