Programme

The conference will be held in the St laurence’s church Grangegorman Campus, Dublin Institute of Technology.

Schedule - Thursday 7th December

9:30	Welcome
09:30 - 10:30	Keynote Speaker
	Dr. Vincent Lonij, IBM Research - Expect the Unexpected, AI in the Real World.
10:30-12:00	Session 1
	10:30 — Approaches and Techniques for analysing WiFi location data  Clement Roux, John McAuley and James Little. 10:50 —  Assessing the Usefulness of Different Feature Sets for Predicting the Comprehension Difficulty of Text   Brian Mac Namee, John D. Kelleher and Noel Fitzpatrick. 11:10 — Finding Niche Topics using Semi-Supervised Topic Modeling via Word Embeddings   Gerald Conheady and Derek Greene. 11:30 — Running with Cases: A CBR Approach to Running Your Best Marathon   Pádraig Cunningham and Barry Smyth
12:00-12:30	Coffee Break
12:30-14:00	Session 2
	12:30 — A comparison on the classification of short-text documents using Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Formal Concept Analysis   Noel Rogers and Luca Longo. 12:50 — Synthetic Dataset Generation for Online Topic Modeling   Mark Belford, Brian Mac Namee and Derek Greene. 13:10 — Extending Jensen Shannon Divergence to Compare Multiple Corpora   Jinghui Lu, Maeve Henchion and Brian Mac Namee. 13:30 — Pinyin as Subword Unit for Chinese-Sourced Neural Machine Translation   Jinhua Du and Andy Way.
14:00-15:00	Lunch Break
15:00-15:40	Session 3
	15:00 — How short is a piece of string? : The Impact of Text Length and Text Augmentation on Short-text Classification   Austin Mccartney, Svetlana Hensman and Luca Longo. 15:20 — Semi-Supervised Overlapping Community Finding with Pairwise Constraints   Elham Alghamdi and Derek Greene.
15:40-16:10	Coffee Break
16:10-16:50	Session 4
	16:10 — How Do Distance Runners Experience Inner Speech? An Empirical Investigation   Brendan Duggan. 16:30 — A Cognitive Learning Model that Combines Feature Formation and Event Prediction   Eman Awad and Fintan Costello.
16:50	Wrap Up
19:00	Conference Dinner (The Alex, O'Callaghan Hotels)

Schedule - Friday 8th December

09:15-10:00	Session 5
	09:15 Welcome 09:20 — Personalised Recommendations for Modes of Transport: A Sequence-based Approach   Gunjan Kumar, Houssem Jerbi and Michael O'Mahony. 09:40 — Inferring Destination from Mobility Data   Ali Naeem and Kenneth Brown.
10:00 - 10:45	Invited Speaker
	Dr. Diarmuid OSeaghdha - Invited speaker: NLP/ Dialogue Research manager at Apple.
10:45-11:45	Coffee Break & Poster Session
11:45-13:30	Session 6
	11:45 — Inferring Waypoints in the Absence of Knowledge of Driving Style   Daniel A. Desmond and Ken Brown. 12:05 — On the relationship between sampling rate and Hidden Markov Models Accuracy in Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring   Steven Lynch and Luca Longo. 12:25 — Multi-Resolution Forecast Aggregation for Time Series in Agri Datasets   Fouad Bahrpeyma, Mark Roantree and Andrew McCarren. 12:45 — Multi-level Attention-Based Neural Networks for Distant Supervised Relation Extraction   Linyi Yang, Tin Lok James Ng, Catherine Mooney and Ruihai Dong. 13:05 — Evaluation of Data Mining Techniques for Two Child-related Social Problems   James Little, Andy Rixon and Hayder Abdulabbas Waheed.
	Closing Remarks
13:30-14:30	AIAI Community Meeting