Professional Activities (not up-to-date)
- Chair, SIGKDD - ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2013 - 2017.
- Steering Committee Member: International ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2013 - 2017.
- Editorial Board
- Guest editor (with Soumen Chakrabarti): IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
- Guest editor (with Kevin C. Chang): SIGKDD Explorations - newsletter of ACM SIGKDD
- Guest editor (with Chengqi Zhang and Qiang Yang): IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
- Web Content Mining tutorial at WWW-05 and WISE-05.
- NSF panels: March 2003 and June 2003.
- Council Member
- Program Committee Chairs
- Program Co-Chair: KDD-2008 - The 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Aug 24-27, 2008, Las Vegas, USA.
- Program Co-Chair: ICDM-2010 - The 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Sydney, Australia, December 13-17, 2010.
- Program Co-Chair: WSDM-2010 - The 3rd ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, New York City, USA - February 2010.
- Program Chair: SDM-07 - SIAM Conference on Data Mining, April 26-28, 2007. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Program Chair: CIKM-06 - ACM 15th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Nov 6-11, 2006, Arilington, VA, USA.
- Program Co-chair: PAKDD-2002- Pacific Asia International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. May, 2002, Taiwan.
- Conference General Chairs
- General Co-Chair: SDM-2010 - SIAM Data Mining Conference, 2010.
- Program Vice Chairs, Area Chairs, and Senior Porgram Committee Members
- IJCAI-ECAI-2018 (Senior PC): 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 13-19, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden.
- KDD 2018 (Senior PC): The Annual ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2018), 19 - 23 August 2018, London, United Kingdom.
- AAAI-2018 (Senior PC): Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), February 2–7, 2018 at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, Lousiana, USA.
- WSDM-2018 (Senior PC): The 11th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2018.
- EMNLP-2017 (Area chair - sentiment analysis and opinion mining): Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-2017), Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2-6, 2017.
- AAAI-2017 (Senior PC): Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17), February 4–9 at the Hilton San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
- WSDM-2017 (Senior PC): The 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Cambridge, England from Feb 6-10, 2017.
- EMNLP-2016 (Area chair - sentiment analysis and opinion mining): Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-2016), November 1-5, 2016, Austin, TX, USA.
- WWW-2015 (Track Chair - content analysis track): The International World Wide Web conference, April 14-18, 2015 in Florence, Italy.
- COLING-2014 (Area chair - sentiment analysis and opinion mining): The 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Aug. 23-29, 2014, Dublin, Ireland.
- ICWSM-2014 (Senior PC): The 8th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, June 2-4, 2014, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
- WSDM-2014 (Senior PC)
, The 7th ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Feb. 24-28, 2014.
- EMNLP-2013 (Area chair - sentiment analysis and opinion mining): Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-2013),
October 18-21 2013, Seattle, USA
- WWW-2013 (Area Chair - Web data mining track): The 22th International World Wide Web conference, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, May 13-17, 2013.
- EMNLP-CoNLL-2012 (Area chair - sentiment analysis and opinion mining): Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-2012), July 12.14, 2012, Jeju, Korea.
- AAAI-2012 (Senior PC): Twenty-Sixth Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Sheraton Centre Toronto, from July 22.26, 2012
- CIKM-2012 (Senior PC): Twenty-First ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Maui, Howaii, Oct. 29 - Nov 2, 2012.
- EACL-2012 (Area chair - sentiment analysis and opinion mining): 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, April 23-27, 2012, Avignon, France.
- ECML-PKDD-2012 (Area chair): The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), Bristol, UK, September 24-28, 2012.
- ICDM-2011 (Vice chair): The 11th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Vancouver, Canada, Dec. 11-14, 2011.
- AAAI-2011 (Senior PC): Twenty-Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco, California at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, from August 7.11, 2011
- WWW-2010 (Area Chair - data mining and machine learning track): The 19th International World Wide Web conference, Raleigh, NC, USA, April 26-30, 2010.
- KDD-2009 (Senior PC): The 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, June 28-July 1, 2009, Paris.
- KDD-2007 (Senior PC): the Thirteenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, San Jose, California, USA, August 12-15, 2007.
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WWW-2005 Deputy Vice Chair - data mining track): The 14th International World Wide Web conference,
May 10-14, 2005, in Chiba, Japan.
- ICDM-2002 (Vice Chair): The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Maebashi City, Japan, December 9 - 12, 2002.
- Workshop Chairs
- Chair: NAACL-2015 - North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2015 conference, May 31 - June 5, 2015 Denver, Colorado.
- Chair: KDD Cup and Workshop 2007, to be held at KDD-2007, Aug 12-15, San Jose, California, 2007.
- Co-organiser: CRM-2005 - International Workshop on Customer Relationship Management: data mining meets marketing. New York University, Nov 18-19 2005, New York City.
- Workshop Co-Chair: SDM-05 - Fifth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Newport Beach, April 20-23, 2005
- Co-Chair: DMKD-04 - 9th ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Research
Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Maison de la Chimie,
Paris, France. 13, June, 2004.
- Co-Chair: SIGKDD-04 Workshop on Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis, August 22, 2004, Seattle, Washington.
- Workshop Co-Chair: PAKDD-04 - Pacific Asia International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Sydney, Australia, May 2004.
- Co-chair -
The Fifth WEBKDD Workshop (WEBKDD-03): Web Mining as a Premise to Effective and Intelligent Web Applications, to be held with KDD-03, August 24-27, 2003 - Washington, DC, USA.
- Chair: PRICAI-98 Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data mining (Nov 27-31, 1998)
- Chair: Asian'96 Post-Conference Workshop on Constraints and Constraint Programming
- Program Committee Members
- IJCNLP-2013, Oct. 14-18, 2013, Nagoya, Japan.
- ACL-2013, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 4-9, 2013.
- WWW-2012 (Web mining track): The 21th International World Web Conference, April 16 - 20, 2012, Lyon, France.
- WWW-2012 (tutorial): The 21th International World Web Conference, April 16 - 20, 2012, Lyon, France.
- ACL-2012, Jeju, Korea, July 8 - July 14, 2012.
- WSDM-2012: Fifth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Seattle, Washington,
February 8-12, 2012.
- WWW-2011: The 20th International World Web Conference, March 28 - April 1, 2011, Hyderabad, India.
- ACL-2011, Portland, Oregon, USA, June 19-24, 2011.
- IJCNLP-2011, November 8-13, 2011, Chiang Mai, Thailand
- KDD-2011: The 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Aug 21-24, 2011, San Diego, CA, USA.
- WWW-2010: The 19th International World Web Conference, April 26-30, Raleigh, NC, USA.
- KDD-2010: The 16th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, July 25-28, 2010, Washington, DC, USA.
- ACL-2010, Uppsala, Sweden, July 11.16, 2010.
- EMNLP-2009: The 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing, Aug 6-7, 2009, Singapore.
- ACL-2009: Aug 2-7, Singapore.
- WWW-2009: The 18th International World Web Conference, April 20-24, Madrid. Spain.
- WSDM-2009: Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Barcelona, Spain - February 9-12, 2009
- COLING-2008, August 18-22, 2008, Manchester, U.K.
- ACL-2008, June 15-20, 2008, Columbus, Ohio.
- WSDM-2008: First ACM International
Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, February 11-12, 2008, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
- WWW-2008: 17th International World Wide Web Conference, April 21-25, 2008, Beijing, China.
- ICDE-2008: The 24th International Conference on Data Engineering, April 7-12, 2008, Canccun, Mexico.
- EMNLP-2007: 2007 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Prague, Czech, June 28-30, 2006.
- AAAI-2007 (Nectar): Twenty-Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
July 22.26, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- AAAI-2007
(AI & the Web Track): Twenty-Second National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, July 22.26, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- WWW-2007: The 16th International
World Wide Web conference (Data Mining Track), May 8-12, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
- WWW-2007: The 16th International
World Wide Web conference (Workshop and tutorial program), May 8-12, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
- ICDE-2007: The 23th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, 2007.
- EMNLP-2006: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Sydney, Australia, 22-23 July 2006, 2006.
- COLING/ACL-06, Sydney, Australia, 17-21 July 2006, 2006.
- HLT-NAACL-06: Joint Human Language Technology Conference/Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, New York, June 4-9, 2006.
- AAAI-2006 Nectar: Twenty-First National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, July 16-20, 2006, Boston, Massachusetts.
- ECML-PKDD 2006: European Conference on Machine Learning / European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases , September 18th to 22nd in Berlin, Germany.
- KDD-2006: the
Twelfth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Philadelphia, USA, August 23-26, 2006.
- WWW-2006: The 15th International
World Wide Web conference, May 22-26, 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland.
- IIWEB-2006: WWW-06 Workshop on Information Integration on the Web, May 23 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland.
- PAKDD-2006: The
Tenth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,
9-12 April, 2004, Singapore.
- SDM-2006: SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, April 20-22, 2006, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
- ICML-2005: The
22nd International Conference on Machine Learning, Bonn, Germany,
August 7-11, 2005.
- KDD-2005: Eleventh
ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
, Chicago, Illinois, August 21-24, 2005.
- WWW-2005: The 14th International
World Wide Web conference, May 10-14, 2005, in Chiba, Japan.
(also as deputy vice chair of Data Mining Track)
- VLDB-2005: International Conference
on Very Large Databases, August 30 - Sept 2, 2005, Trondheim,
Norway.
- WI-2005: The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence, September 19-22, 2005, Compiegne University of Technology, France.
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AAAI-2005: Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
, July 24-28, 2005 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
- ICDM-2005: The
2005 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, November 26-30,
2005, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
- SAC'2005:
The 20th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing -- (Track: Web Technologies
and Applications), Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 13 -17, 2005
- PAKDD-2005: The
Ninth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,
18-20 May, 2004, Hanoi, Vietnam.
- KDD-2004: the Tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Seattle, Washington on August 22-25, 2004.
- WWW-2004: Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference, May 17-22, 2004, New York, USA (Data Mining Track).
- AAAI-2004 Workshop on Semantic Web Personalization, July 25-26, 2004, San Jose, California, USA.
- ECML-2004 Workshop on Web mining, ECML/PKDD 2004, Sept 20-24, Pisa, Italy.
- ER-2004 Workshop on Conceptual Model-directed Web Information
Integration and Mining (CoMWIM), held at the 23rd International
Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2004).
- ICDM-2004: The
2004 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, November 01 - 04,
2004, Brighton, UK.
- ICDE-2004: The 20th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, March 30 - April 2, 2004, Boston, USA.
- WI-2004: 2004
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Sept 20-24,
Beijing, China.
- IJCNLP-2004: The First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, March 22-24, 2004, Hainan, China.
- APWeb'04: The Sixth Asia Pacific Web Conference, Hangzhou, China, 14-17 April, 2004
- SAC'2004: ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (Track: Web
Technologies and Applications), Cyprus in March, 2004.
- PAKDD-2004: Eighth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and
Data Mining, 26-28 May, 2004, Calton Crest Hotel, Sydney, Australia.
- DASFAA-2004: International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Jeju island, Korea, from Febuary 24 to Febuary 27, 2004.
- ICML-03 Workshop: The Continuum from Labeled to Unlabeled Data in Machine Learning & Data Mining, Washington, DC, August 21-24 2003 (ICML-03).
- WWW-2003 (poster program): The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, 20-24 May 2003, Budapest, HUNGARY.
- AM-03: Second International Workshop on Active Mining, October 28, 2003
Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan.
- WWW/Internet-03: IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2003, Algarve, Portugal, 5-8 Nov 2003
- DMKD-2003: SIGMOD-2003 Workshop on Research Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 13th June 2003, San Diego, California, 2003.
- ICDM-2003: The
2003 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, November 19 - 22, 2003,
in Melbourne, Florida, USA.
- DaWaK-2003: International Conference on Data Warehousing and knowledge discovery, Praha (Czech Republic), September 1-5, 2003
- PAKDD-2003: Seventh Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and
Data Mining, Seoul, Korea, April 30-May 2, 2003.
- WI-2003: IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence, October 13-17 in Beijing, China.
- IDEAL-2003: Third International Conference on Intelligent
Data Engineering and Automated Learning, 21-23, March 2003, Hong Kong.
- DASFAA-2003: 8th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Kyoto, Japan, 26-28 March, 2003.
- IDA-2003: Fifth International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, Aug 26-29, 2003, Berlin, Germany.
- SDM-2003: SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, May 1-3, 2003, Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- CIKM-2002: 11th International Conference on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Nov. 4-9, 2002 in McClean, Virginia.
- KDD-2002: The Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining, July 23-26th, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
- MEWS-2002: First International Workshop on Mining for Enhanced Web Search, Singapore Dec. 12th, 2002. (In conjunction with WISE-2002).
- SDM-2002: The Second SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, April 11-13, 2002, Hyatt Regency, Crystal City, Arlington, VA, USA.
- ICDE-2002: The 18th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, February 26-March 1, 2002, San Jose, California.
- WECWIS-2002: The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems, June 2002, Newport Beach,
California, USA.
- DS2002: The Fifth
International Conference on Discovery Science, November 24-26, 2002,
Luebeck, Germany.
- DaWaK-2002: International Conference on Data Warehousing and
Knowledge discovery, Aix-en-Province, France
(near Marseille), September 2-6, 2002
- MICAI-2002: The Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Yucatan, Mexico, April 22 - April 26, 2002.
- ICIIT-02: International Conference on Intelligent Information
Technology, September 22-25, 2002, Beijing, China
- RBDM-01: The first international workshop on rule based data
mining, Oct 20-22, 2001, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
- KDD-2001: The Seventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, San Francisco, CA; Aug 26-29, 2001.
- DMKD-2001: SIGMOD-2001 Workshop on Research Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Santa Barbara, California, May 20, 2001.
- SDM-2001: The First SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, April 5-6, 2001, Chicago, USA.
- ICDM-2001: 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, November 29 - December 2,
2001, Silicon Valley, California.
- ICII-2001: International Conferences on Info-tech & Info-net, Beijing, China, Oct.29 - Nov.1, 2001
- IDA-2001: Fourth International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, Sept 13th - 15th, 2001, Lisbon, Portugal
- IJCAI-2001: (Review committee for Search, Scheduling and Constraint Satisfaction) International Joint Conference on Artificial Intellgience, August 4th - 10th, 2001, Seattle, Washington, USA.
- DaWaK-2001,
International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, September 3-7, 2001, Munich, Germany.
- PAKDD-2001: Pacific-Asia
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Hong Kong, 2001.
- WI-2001: First Asia
Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence, Maebashi City, Japan, October
23-26, 2001.
- Asian Computing Science Conference, 2000.
- The 10th International Conference on Computing and Information, 2000.
- PAKDD-2000: Pacific Asia International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2000, Kyoto, Japan.
- RSFDGrC'99: The Seventh International Workshop on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular-Soft Computing (RSFDGrC'99), 1999, Yamaguchi, Japan.
- IDA-99: International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, 1999, Amstemdan, Holland.
- PAKDD-99: Pacific Asia International Conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, 1999, Beijing, China.
- PAKDD-98: Pacific Asia International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 1998, Singapore.
- Invited Talks
- For recent talks, see my homepage
- Invited Speaker: Mining and Summarizing Opinions on the Web. Invited talk at ACL-06 Workshop on Sentiment and Subjectivity in Text. July 22, 2006, Sydney, Australia.
- Invited Speaker: Searching Opinions in User-Generated Contents. Invited talk at the Sixth Annual Emerging Information Technology Conference (EITC-06), Aug 10-12, 2006, Dallas, Texas.
- Invited Participant:
Dagstuhl Seminar 04292: Data Mining: The Next Generation, July 11-16, 2004,
Organized by: R. Agrawal (IBM Almaden Center, US), J. C. Freytag (HU Berlin, DE), R. Ramakrishnan (Univ. Wisconsin - Madison, US)
- Invited Lecturer: University of Siena, Italy, Mar 23-27, 2004.
- Introduction to data mining
- Invited Speaker: VLDB summer school in Delhi and Bangalore, India,
June 3- 9, 2004
- Classification: from full supervision to partial supervision
- Intorduction to data mining
- Guest Editors (Wynne Hsu and Bing Liu): Computer-Aided Design
Journal
- Special Issue on Conceptual design: Issues and Challenges, Vol 32, No
14, December 2000.
- Invited speaker: DIMACS Workshop on Data Quality, Data Cleaning and Treatment of Noisy Data November 3 - 4, 2003 DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.
- Invited Keynote Speaker and Participant: Dagstuhl Seminar 00331: Intelligent Data Analysis, Aug 13-18, 2000, SCHLOSS DAGSTUHL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND RESEARCH CENTER FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE, Germany.
Organized by M. Berthold (Berkeley), R. Kruse (Magdeburg),
X. Liu (London), H. Szczerbicka (Bremen).
I will give the following two talks (tentative titles):
- General talk: Mining and using association rules
- Research talk: Post-processing of mining results: mining after mining
- Invited Speaker and Participant: Workshop on Mining Scientific Datasets, July 20-21 2000, Army High Performance Computing Research Centre, University of Minnesota, organized by
Robert Grossman, Chandrika Kamath, Vipin Kumar and Raju Namburu.
- Invited Panelist: "Data mining and web information systems"
- Invited Speaker: Database Marketing Conference, 8-9 January 2001, Singapore.
- Talk: Database marketing using data mining techniques
- Invited Speaker: Applications of Fuzzy Sets (July 22, 1999)
- Third Country Training Programme in "Intelligent Systems for Management Information Systems Managers" (TCTP'99).
- Invited Speaker: Data Mining for Marketing (June 29, 1999)
- Invited Speaker: Data Management Conference, Oct 2-3 2002, Singapore.
- Talk: Data and Web Mining.
- Invited Speaker: Mining useful knowledge from databases (June 26, 2001).
- Technology talk to general public in Singapore
- WWW-2005 Tutorial on Web Content Mining, May 10-14, Chiba, Japan, 2005.
- PRICAI-98 Tutorial on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Nov 27-31, 1998)
- Research Visit (joint research): Visisted IBM T. J Watson Research Center, Yorktown Height, New York, Jan 28-Mar 30, 2000.
- Research Visit (joint research): Visisted IBM T. J Watson Research Center, Yorktown Height, New York, Mar 25-May 4, 2001.
- Research Visit (joint research): Visisted IBM T. J Watson Research Center, Yorktown Height, New York, June 9 - June 30, 2003.