Last year we submitted the paper as a demo paper, and it was rejected, probably because the reviewers were confused about what the demo was about. This year we submitted it as a research paper and it got three “accept” with high confidence.

I am very excited about it! My background is in pure machine learning, conferences like ICML and NIPS were the natural venue for our papers. But when you are working for industry, it is a complete different story. The best place to publish your work depends on what the topic you are working on. Just at my current company, we have published papers at ACL, VLDB workshops, KBP, and now GIS! Talking about the broadening of one’s horizon!

Another lesson learned–sometimes if the work is more on research topics, even though we are from the industry, and our work is more about the application, it is still more appropriate to submit them to a research conference or the research track of a conference!