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Workshop on Link Analysis and Group Detection (LinkKDD2004)

August 22, 2004

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To be held at KDD-2004, The Tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Seattle, WA, USA, 22-25 August 2004

Call for papers (expired) on the following topics was open until May 31, 2004. ----------------------------------------

Link Analysis and Link Discovery has been developed over the past 20 years in various fields including Discrete Mathematics (Graph Theory), Social Sciences (Social Network Analysis) and Computer Science (graph as a data structure). Recently this area has attracted a wider attention for its applicability in law enforcement investigations (e.g., terrorism), fraud detection (e.g., insurance, banking), WWW analysis (e.g., search engines, marketing), telecommunications (e.g., routers, traffic, connectivity), and similar. ----------------------------------------

Topics of interest

Particular topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to:


Workshop papers

The workshop consists of invited talk, presentation of refereed papers, and discussions.
We hope that the program will stimulate future collaboration among researchers.

SESSION I
 
8:30 - 8:45
Introductory Remarks
8:45 - 9:05
Compressing Network Graphs
Anna C. Gilbert and Kirill Levchenko
9:05 - 9:25
Measuring Confidence Intervals in Link Discovery: A Bootstrap Approach
Jafar Adibi, Clayton M. Morrison and Paul R. Cohen
9:25 - 9:55
Semisupervised Learning on Small Worlds
Rosie Jones
10:00 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 10:50
An Exploration of Entity Models, Collective Classification and Relation Description
Hema Raghavan, James Allan and Andrew McCallum
10:50 - 11:10
Graph-based Data Mining on Social Networks
Maitrayee Mukherjee, and Lawrence B. Holder
11:10 - 11:30
Extracting Social Networks from Instant Messaging Populations
John Resig, Santosh Dawara, Christopher M. Homan, and Ankur Teredesai
11:30 - 11:50
Issues of Verification for Unsupervised Discovery Systems
Shou-de Lin and Hans Chalupsky
SESSION II
1:15 - 2:00
Keynote Speaker
Christos Falotsous , CMU
2:10 - 2:30
Deduplication and Group Detection using Links
Indrajit Bhattacharya and Lise Getoor
2:30 - 2:50
Multi-Hypothesis Abductive Reasoning for Link Discovery
Nicholas J. Pioch, Daniel Hunter, James V. White, Amy Kao, Daniel Bostwick and Eric K. Jones
3:00 - 3:30
Break
3:30 - 3:50
Learning Sub-structures of Document Semantic Graphs for Document Summarization
Jure Leskovec, Marko Grobelnik, Natasa Milic-Frayling
3:50 - 4:10
Path Analysis for Refining Verb Relations
Timothy Chklovski and Patrick Pantel
4:10 - 4:30
Discovering links between lexical and surface features in questions and answers
Soumen Chakrabarti
4:30 - 4:45
Conclusion Remarks
 
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Attendance

Attendance is not limited to the paper authors. We strongly encourage interested researchers from related areas to attend the workshop. The workshop should be of interest to researchers and practitioners conducting research or building applications that involve various data analysis and rich data and knowledge representations, in particular, those from: Academic Data Mining (analytical aspects of dealing with link structures), Commercial Data Mining (new application areas), Social Networks Analysis (algorithmic aspects of dealing with large network structures), Relational Data Mining/Association Rules (alternative representations and dealing with the data), Natural Language Processing/Text Mining (representational aspects). We expect that the workshop topics will attract attention of regular KDD attendees who are interested in Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing but also potentially encourage the attendance of KDD by participants interested in Social Network Analysis who would otherwise not choose to come to the conference. ----------------------------------------

Organization

Program Chairs

Jafar Adibi
Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, 4676 Admiralty Way Suit 1001, Marina del Rey, CA 90292

Hans Chalupsky
Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, 4676 Admiralty Way Suit 1001, Marina del Rey, CA 90292

Marko Grobelnik
J.Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Natasa Milic-Frayling
Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FB, United Kingdom

Dunja Mladenic
J.Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Program Committee

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Past events

We feel that the continuity of meeting and exchanging ideas is essential for effective promotion and development of this research area.

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