Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

Writing a research paper (3) – the abstract

Posted on 2018-07-07 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will continue the discussion of how to write research papers.  I will discuss the importance of writing a good abstract for research papers, common errors, and give some tips. Why the abstract is important? The abstract is often overlooked but it is one … Continue reading →

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IEA AIE 2018 conference (a brief report)

Posted on 2018-06-30 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week, I am attending the IEA AIE 2018 conference ( 31st International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems) in Montreal, Canada. About the conference The IEA AIE conference is an international conference on artificial intelligence and related topics. Conference opening On Tuesday morning, it was the conference opening. This year,  146 papers … Continue reading →

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Writing a research paper (2) – choosing a good title

Posted on 2018-06-30 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will continue my series of blog posts about how to write research papers.  I will discuss the importance of choosing a good title for research papers, some common errors, and give some tips. Why the title is important? The title and abstract are some … Continue reading →

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Writing a research paper (1) – keeping it simple

Posted on 2018-06-25 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will give some advice about how to write research papers.  This will be the first post of a series of posts on this topic. In this post, I will focus on one aspect, which is to use simple structures and expressions to present the … Continue reading →

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Why attending academic conferences is important?

Posted on 2018-06-06 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will talk about the importance of attending academic conferences for researchers. I will answer two important questions: Why it is important to attend conference?  and What one should do at an academic conference to get the most benefits? Academic conferences Academic conferences are meetings attended by researchers mostly from academia,. … Continue reading →

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PAKDD 2018 Conference (a brief report)

Posted on 2018-06-01 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will discuss the PAKDD 2018 conference (Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), in Melbourne Australia, from the 3rd June to the 6th June 2018. About the PAKDD conference PAKDD is an important conference in the data science / data mining research community, mainly attended by researchers from … Continue reading →

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China International BigData Industry Expo 2018 (a brief report)

Posted on 2018-05-28 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week I have attended the China International Big Data Industry Expo 2018 in Guiyang, China. I will describe this event and some of the key things that I have observed so far. What is the China International Big Data Industry Expo? It is an international event targeted toward the industry and focused on big data, which is aimed … Continue reading →

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The Semantic Web and why it failed.

Posted on 2018-05-13 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will talk about the vision of the Semantic Web that was proposed in the years 2000s, and why it failed. Then, I will talk about how it has been replaced today by the use of data mining and machine learning techniques. What is the Semantic Web? … Continue reading →

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How to run SPMF without installing Java?

Posted on 2018-04-02 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

The SPMF data mining software is a popular open-source software for discovering patterns in data and for performing other data mining tasks. Typically, to run SPMF, Java must have been installed on a computer. However, it is possible to run SPMF on a computer that does not have Java installed. For example, … Continue reading →

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How to compare two LaTeX documents? (using LatexDiff)

Posted on 2018-02-26 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Many researchers are using Latex to write research papers instead of using Microsoft Word. I previously wrote a blog post about the reasons for using Latex to write research papers. Today, I will go in more details about Latex and talk about a nice tool for comparing two Latex files to see the differences. The goal … Continue reading →

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