VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Sarah C. Emerson
dblp:195/8180
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2017
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Environmental and earth informatics · 87% Computational social science and digital humanities · 13% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Data mining · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Environmental and earth informatics
ecological modeling |
0.3 | 1 | 2017 | Species Distribution Modeling of Citizen Science Data as a Classification Problem with Class-Conditional Noise · AAAI 2017 |
Environmental and earth informatics › ecological modeling
species distribution modeling |
0.3 | 1 | 2017 | Species Distribution Modeling of Citizen Science Data as a Classification Problem with Class-Conditional Noise · AAAI 2017 |
Data mining › predictive modeling › classification › noisy label learning
noisy label classification |
0.3 | 1 | 2017 | Species Distribution Modeling of Citizen Science Data as a Classification Problem with Class-Conditional Noise · AAAI 2017 |
Computational social science and digital humanities
citizen science data |
0.1 | 1 | 2017 | Species Distribution Modeling of Citizen Science Data as a Classification Problem with Class-Conditional Noise · AAAI 2017 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
classification · 0.6class-conditional noise model · 0.6
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Species Distribution Modeling of Citizen Science Data as a Classification Problem with Class-Conditional NoiseabstractSpecies distribution models relate the geographic occurrence pattern of a species to environmental features and are used for a variety of scientific and management purposes. One source of data for building species distribution models is citizen science, in which volunteers report locations where they observed (or did not observe) sets of species. Since volunteers have variable levels of expertise, citizen science data may contain both false positives and false negatives in the location labels (present vs. absent) they provide, but many common modeling approaches for this task do not address these sources of noise explicitly. In this paper, we propose to formulate the species distribution modeling task as a classification problem with class-conditional noise. Our approach builds on other applications of class-conditional noise models to crowdsourced data, but we focus on leveraging features of the noise processes that are distinct from the class features. We describe the conditions under which the parameters of our proposed model are identifiable and apply it to simulated data and data from the eBird citizen science project. Rebecca A. Hutchinson, Liqiang He, Sarah C. Emerson |
AAAI | 3 |