DeLBP 2016 - First International Workshop on Declarative Learning Based Programming (DeLBP 2016)

First International Workshop on Declarative Learning Based Programming (DeLBP 2016)
In conjunction with Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2016)
February 12?13, 2016, Phoenix, Arizona USA.
Website: http://delbp.github.io
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AIM AND SCOPE
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The main goal of Declarative Learning Based Programming (DeLBP) workshop is to investigate the issues that arise when designing and using programming languages that support learning from data and knowledge. DeLBP aims at facilitating and simplifying the design and development of intelligent real world applications that use machine learning and reasoning by addressing the following commonly observed challenges: Interaction with messy, naturally occurring data; Specifying the requirements of the application at a high abstraction level; Dealing with uncertainty in data and knowledge in various layers of the application program; Using representations that support flexible relational feature engineering; Using representations that support flexible reasoning and structure learning; Integrating a range of learning and inference algorithms; and finally addressing the above mentioned issues in one unified programming environment. Conventional programming languages offer no help to application programmers that attempt to design and develop applications that make use of real world data, and reason about it in a way that involves learning interdependent concepts from data, incorporating existing models, and reasoning about existing and trained models and their parametrization. Over the last few years the research community has tried to address these problems from multiple perspectives, most notably various approaches based on Probabilistic programming, Logical Programming and the integrated paradigms. The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss the current related research and the way various challenges have been addressed. We aim at motivating the need for further research toward a unified framework in this area based on the key existing paradigms: Probabilistic Programming (PP), Logic Programming (LP), Probabilistic Logical Programming (PLP), First-order query languages and database management systems (DBMS) and deductive databases (DDB), Statistical relational learning and related languages (SRL), and connect these to the ideas of Learning Based Programming. We aim to discuss and investigate the required type of languages and representations that facilitate modeling probabilistic or non-probabilistic complex learning models, and provide the ability to combine, chain and perform flexible inference with existing models and by exploiting first-order background knowledge.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Data modeling (Relational data modeling or Graph based)
First-order Knowledge Representation
Relational feature engineering
Design and Representation of complex Learning and Inference Models
Probabilistic Programming
Probabilistic Logical Learning and Reasoning
Declarative Languages
Automation of Hyper-Parameter Tuning
Applications in Natural language processing, Computer vision and Bioinformatics
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline: October 23, 2015
Notification: November 23, 2015
Workshop Days: February 12-13, 2016
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SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCESS
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We encourage contributions in any of these areas with either a technical paper (AAAI style, 6 pages without references), a position statement (AAAI style, 2 pages maximum) or an abstract of a published work.
AAAI Style files available here.
Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=delbp2016
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Parisa Kordjamshidi
Dan Roth
Avi Pfeffer
Guy Van den Broeck
Sameer Singh
Vivek Srikumar
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz
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CONTACT
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delbp-workshop-organizers-AT-googlegroups.com (Organization Committee)
kordjam-AT-illinois.edu (Parisa Kordjamshidi)