The DEEM workshop will be held on Sunday, June 20th, in conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS 2021. The workshop will be held online. DEEM brings together researchers and practitioners at the intersection of applied machine learning, data management and systems research, with the goal to discuss the arising data management issues in ML application scenarios.
The workshop solicits regular research papers describing preliminary and ongoing research results. In addition, the workshop encourages the submission of industrial experience reports of end-to-end ML deployments. Submissions can be short papers (4 pages) or long papers (up to 10 pages, plus unlimited references) following the ACM proceedings format (last update 11/2020).
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DEEM 2021 Proceedings: ACM DL Link
Abstract: Subjective data refers to data that contains opinions and experiences. Such data is ubiquitous in product reviews, tweets, and discussion forums on social media. We present an abstractive opinion summarization framework, which does not rely on gold-standard summaries for training. The opinion summarizer extracts opinion phrases from reviews and trains a Transformer model to reconstruct the original reviews from these extractions. Automatic evaluation on Yelp data shows that our summarizer outperforms competitive baselines. Human studies on two corpora verify that our opinion summarizer produces informative summaries and shows promising customization capabilities. We show how the idea of reconstructing summaries from extracted opinions also allows us to generate explanations for the generated summaries. This is joint work with Yoshihiko Suhara, Xiaolan Wang, and Stefanos Angelidis, Zhengjie Miao, and Yuliang Li
Applying Machine Learning (ML) in real-world scenarios is a challenging task. In recent years, the main focus of the database community has been on creating systems and abstractions for the efficient training of ML models on large datasets. However, model training is only one of many steps in an end-to-end ML application, and a number of orthogonal data management problems arise from the large-scale use of ML, which require the attention of the data management community.
For example, data preprocessing and feature extraction workloads may be complicated and require simultaneous execution of relational and linear algebraic operations. Next, model selection may involve searching many combinations of model architectures, features, and hyperparameters to find the best-performing model. After model training, the resulting model may have to be deployed and integrated into business workflows and require lifecycle management using metadata and lineage. As a further complication, the resulting system may have to take into account a heterogeneous audience, ranging from domain experts without programming skills to data engineers and statisticians who develop custom algorithms.
Additionally, the importance of incorporating ethics and legal compliance into machine-assisted decision-making is being broadly recognized. Critical opportunities for improving data quality and representativeness, controlling for bias, and allowing humans to oversee and impact computational processes are missed if we do not consider the lifecycle stages upstream from model training and deployment. DEEM welcomes research on providing system-level support to data scientists who wish to develop and deploy responsible machine learning methods.
DEEM aims to bring together researchers and practitioners at the intersection of applied machine learning, data management and systems research, with the goal to discuss the arising data management issues in ML application scenarios. The workshop solicits regular research papers describing preliminary and ongoing research results. In addition, the workshop encourages the submission of industrial experience reports of end-to-end ML deployments.
Submissions can be short papers (4 pages) or long papers (up to 10 pages, plus unlimited references). Authors are requested to prepare submissions following the ACM proceedings format. Please use the latest ACM paper format (last update 11/2020). DEEM is a single-blind workshop, authors must include their names and affiliations on the manuscript cover page.
Submission Website: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/DEEM2021
Inclusion and Diversity in Writing: http://2021.sigmod.org/calls_papers_inclusion_and_diversity.shtml
Matthias Boehm
Julia Stoyanovich
Steven Whang