I'm glad to announce ICML-99 workshop on
Machine Learning in Text Data Analysis
(paper submissions due to March 31, 1999)
http://www-ai.ijs.si/DunjaMladenic/ICML99/
I'd also like to announce that my PhD thesis on
"Machine learning on large, non-homogeneous text data"
is available at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~TextLearning/pww/PhD.html
Regards,
Dunja Mladenic
<http://www-ai.ijs.si/DunjaMladenic>
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Call for Papers
ICML-99 Workshop: Machine Learning in Text Data Analysis
to be held at the 16th International Conference on Machine Learning
(ICML-99)
Hotel Park, Bled, Slovenia, June 30, 1999
The growing importance of electronic media for storing and exchanging
text documents has led to a growing interest in tools that can help
finding and sorting information included in the text documents.
Additionally to well-organized and maintained databases, one of the
important sources of textual information is the Web, that is getting
more data and more users on a daily basis. Methods developed for
learning
on structured datasets as well as research in machine learning on
automatic
document categorization and text mining contribute to the analysis of
text
data. Most of the developed approaches assume that the text data is
given
in the English language even though many of them that are based on
statistics
do not strongly dependend on the underlying natural language. An
interesting
question is the scalability of the developed approaches, for example, to
domains containing non-English documents or to domains having very short
or
very long documents.
The aim of this workshop is to contribute to exchange of the recent
results
and encourage research on learning and analysis of text data with a
special
emphasis on non-English texts and multilingual approaches. The workshop
includes development of techniques for text classification, learning on
text
data and automated text analysis, study of domain characteristic
influence
as well as practical usage on different problems involving learning and
analysis
of text data. By addressing different state-of-the-art methodologies
used in
learning and analysis of text data and successful applications of this
work
we hope to encourage interaction between reseachers and contribute to
development of this area.
Particular topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not
limited to:
text representation, feature subset selection, domain characteristics
influence
and domain tailored text learning, scalability of developed approaches,
text mining and text classification methods, natural language processing
for
automated text analysis, extensions of the developed methods for
handling
different natural languages, result evaluation measures, text learning
on the Web,
inovative applications of text learning and analysis.
The workshop will consists of an invited talk, a number of refereed
contributions
and discussion. We also hope to stimulate researchers from Europe to
cooperate
on text analysis that would include specificities of different natural
languages.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions should be sent by March 31, 1999,
preferably in electronic form as a PostScript file to
Dunja.Mladenic@ijs.si, Subject: ICML-99 workshop submission.
The length and formating of the submissions should follow
the ICML-99 recommendations. Submitted papers will be reviewed by
independent referees from the Program Committee.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
The authors will be notified about the acceptance or rejection by
April 30, 1999. Camera-ready versions are due May 15, 1999.
ATTENDANCE
Attendance is not limited to the paper authors. We also encourage
interested researches from related areas to attend the workshop.
We encourage registration of interest starting now to
Dunja.Mladenic@ijs.si, Subject: Interest in ICML-99 workshop.
One of the objectives of the workshop is to encourage interaction
between reseachers and contribute to development of this area.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Registration of interest: starting now
Submission Deadline: March 31, 1999
Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 1999
Camera-ready Copies: May 15, 1999
Workshop Date: 30 June, 1999
ORGANISERS
Dunja Mladenic and Marko Grobelnik
J.Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dunja.Mladenic@ijs.si, Marko.Grobelnik@ijs.si
http://www-ai.ijs.si/DunjaMladenic
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Helena Ahonen,University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
James Cussens, The University of York, UK
William Cohen, AT\&T Labs Research, Florham Park, NJ
Walter Daelemans, Tilburg University, Tilburg; The Netherlands
Tomaz Erjavec, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dayne Freitag, Just Research, Pittsburgh, PA
Marko Grobelnik, J.Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Thorsten Joachims, Universitaet Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Yves Kodratoff, Universite Paris Sud, Paris, France
Donato Malerba, Universita' di Bari, Bari, Italy
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Microsoft Research Ltd, Cambridge, UK
Dunja Mladenic, J.Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Isabelle Moulinier, West Group, Eagan, MN
Sean Slattery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Prasad Tadepalli, Oregon State University, Cornvallis, OR
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