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Nathan Moore, Kevin Molloy, William Lovo, Sven Mayer, Pawel W. Wozniak, Michael Stewart
POST: A Machine Learning Based Paper Organization and Scheduling Tool
Companion of the 2020 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP'20), ACM, 2020-01-06 (bib)

Organizing and assigning sessions within a large confer- ence is a formidable challenge. Some conference organiz- ers, who are typically volunteers, have utilized event plan- ning software to ensure simple constraints, such as two people can not be scheduled to talk at the same time. In this work, we proposed utilizing natural language process- ing to find the topics within a corpus of conference submis- sions and then cluster them together into sessions. As a preliminary evaluation of this technique, we compare ses- sion assignments from previous conferences to ones gener- ated with our proposed techniques.