Bridging Machine Learning Theory and Practice a" What we have learned from participating ACM KDD CUP
Shou-de Lin (National Taiwan University)
NICTA SML SEMINAR Machine Learning Research Group SeminarDATE: 2013-04-18
TIME: 11:15:00 - 11:45:00
LOCATION: NICTA - 7 London Circuit
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ABSTRACT:
While it is possible to learn a variety of machine learning and data mining theories from lectures or books, applying them effectively and efficiently to the real-world data is a completely different story. Very often data miners have to suffer a painful process of trial and error in applying machine learning tools due to lack of experience. Dealing with the practical issues on data is rather an art than science. Nevertheless, in this talk Iall share some of the experiences we have learned from participating ACM KDDCup for the past several years. Instead of theoretical machine learning techniques, this talk will be focused more on the practical issues and tricks that are important to train an effective and efficient classifier, based on several case studies about medical data mining, telcom user behaviour mining, educational data mining, and music recommendation.
BIO:
Shou-de Lin is currently an associate professor in the CSIE department of National Taiwan University. He holds a BS in EE department from National Taiwan University, an MS-EE from the University of Michigan, and an MS in Computational Linguistics and PhD in Computer Science both from the University of Southern California. He joined National Taiwan University in 2007. He leads the Machine Discovery and Social Network Mining Lab in NTU. Before joining NTU, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Los Alamos National Lab. Prof. Linas research includes the areas of knowledge discovery and data mining, social network analysis, natural language processing and machine learning. His international recognition includes the best paper award in IEEE Web Intelligent conference 2003, Google Research Award in 2007, Microsoft research award in 2008, merit paper award in TAAI 2010, and best paper award in ASONAM 2011. He is the all-time winners in ACM KDD Cup, leading or co-leading the NTU team to win championships in 2008 (co-champion with IBM Research), 2010 (student team champion and overall team champion), 2011 (dual champions in both tracks), and 2012 (Champion in track 2), ranked 2nd in 2003 and 3rd in 2009. He is currently the associate editor for International Journal on Social Network Mining and was the secretary general for Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence.
