Machine Learning List: Vol. 17, No. 1 Sunday, February 27, 2005
Contents Calls for Papers/Participation 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2005) ICML-2005 Workshop Overview ICML-2005 Workshop on Meta-learning ICML-2005 Workshop on Partially Classified Training Data ICML-2005 Workshop on Inductive Programming ICML-2005 Workshop on Rich Representations for Reinforcement Learning UM05 Workshop on Privacy-Enhanced Personalization IJCAI-05 Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning Discovery Science 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2005 Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) The Second Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) KDD-2005 JMLR Special Topic Workshop proposals: Third Intl Conference on Knowledge Capture Special Session on Data Mining for Business Intelligence Workshop on Parameter Setting in Genetic and Evolutionary Career Opportunities Research position at the Insitute for NLP, Stuttgart The Machine Learning List is moderated. 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The ML List moderator reserves the right to omit/edit submissions to meet these criteria. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ina Lauth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:31:42 +0100 Subject: 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2005) Last Call for Papers 22nd International Conference On Machine Learning (ICML-2005) Submission deadline: Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 23:59:59 Central European Time The 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2005) will be held in Bonn (Germany), 7-11 August 2005. The conference will bring together researchers to exchange ideas and report recent progress in the field of machine learning. ICML-2005 will be co-located with ILP 2005 (August 11-13) and will take place directly after IJCAI 2005, which will take place in Edinburgh (Scotland, July 30 - August 5). The conference Web site is http://icml.ais.fraunhofer.de/ ICML-2005 invites submissions on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research on all aspects of machine learning research, including applications, techniques, theories, and connections to related fields of inquiry. ICML especially encourages submissions that report on 1. novel and challenging applications and the lessons drawn for the field of machine learning, 2. exploratory research that describes novel learning tasks and goes beyond the current paradigms, 3. interdisciplinary research results, in which machine learning plays a central role. The conference will include three and a half days of technical presentations along with one day of tutorials and one day of workshops. The conference will also feature poster sessions and informal gatherings designed to foster discussion of research in machine learning. The deadline for paper submission to ICML-2005 is Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 23:59:59 Central European Time. The submission process will be entirely electronic. Authors should submit papers using the same format and length as will be required for the final proceedings version. Detailed instructions, as well as templates for LaTeX and Word, will be available at http://icml.ais.fraunhofer.de/papers/format. To submit your paper, go to http://icml.ais.fraunhofer.de/papers/submit. ICML-2005 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review or has already been accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during ICML's review period. Papers submitted to ICML-2005 will normally be reviewed by three (but at least two) referees. Authors will be given the opportunity to provide a short feedback to the reviews before the final decision is made. We will also continue the policy of conditionally accepting papers that are not publishable in their initial form, but that the reviewers feel can be improved enough in time to appear in the proceedings. If a paper is conditionally accepted, the requirements for acceptance will be explicitly listed on the review form. Papers that have been conditionally accepted will be reviewed again after re-submission. Note that reviewing for ICML-2005 will be blind to the identities of the authors. See http://icml.ais.fraunhofer.de/papers/format for instructions. Important Dates Submissions due: Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 23:59:59 CET Author notifications sent: Monday, 9 May 2005 Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due: Wednesday, 1 June 2005 Authors of conditionally accepted papers notified: Wednesday, 15 June 2005 General Chair Saso Dzeroski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Jozef Stefan Institute Programme Chairs Luc De Raedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), University of Freiburg Stefan Wrobel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), University of Bonn Tutorial and Workshop Chair Hendrik Blockeel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), KU Leuven Local Chairs Ina Lauth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Fraunhofer AIS Michael May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Fraunhofer AIS ------------------------------ From: Hendrik Blockeel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ICML-2005 workshop overview Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:25:33 +0100 (MET) ICML-2005 workshops will be held on August 7 and August 11, just before and after the main conference, in Bonn, Germany. The paper submission deadline for all workshops is April 1. See http://icml2005.kdnet.org/workshops.php for more information. ------------------------------ From: Christophe Giraud-Carrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ICML-2005 Workshop on Meta-learning Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 06:34:03 -0700 Call for Papers ICML-2005 Workshop on Meta-Learning The field of meta-learning has as its primary goal the understanding of the interaction between the mechanism of learning and the concrete contexts in which that mechanism is applicable. Meta-learning differs from base-learning in the scope of the level of adaptation. Whereas learning at the base level focuses on accumulating experience on a specific learning task (e.g., credit rating, medical diagnosis, mine-rock discrimination, fraud detection, etc.), learning at the meta-level is concerned with accumulating experience on the behavior of multiple applications of a learning system. The aim of this workshop is to offer the international community a forum to assess the state-of-the-art, exchange experience, knowledge and perspectives in meta-learning, and provide impetus to the field. Deadline for submission: April 1, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 22, 2005 Final camera-ready paper: May 13, 2005 ------------------------------ From: Emanuel Kitzelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ICML-2005 Workshop on Inductive Programming Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:42:35 +0100 Call for Paper: ICML-2005 - Workshop on Approaches and Applications of Inductive Programming (AAIP) A workshop on inductive programming will be held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning in Bonn, Germany, on August 7th, 2005. Workshop page: http://www.cogsys.wiai.uni-bamberg.de/aaip/ The workshop will bring together researchers from all the different fields of machine learning that study induction of general programs that contain control structures such as recursion or loops. To submit your paper, please follow the ICML-2005 formatting guide and e-mail the pdf file to [EMAIL PROTECTED], together with an indication whether the paper is a work in progress report or a full paper. Important dates April 1, 2005 Deadline for paper submissions April 22, 2005 Notification of acceptance to submitters May 13, 2005 WS final paper deadline May 20, 2005 Workshop notes due (on-line) More information about the workshop and the program committee can be found at the workshop Web site. ------------------------------ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ICML-2005 Workshop on Partially Classified Training Data Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:57:05 +0100 Call for Position Papers and Participation Workshop on Learning with Partially Classified Training Data during ICML-2005 August 7, 2005. Bonn, Germany Many real-life applications may involve huge datasets in which exhaustive sample-labeling requires expensive human resources and is often unrealistic. For example, in bioinformatics or many information retrieval tasks, labeling data is a time consuming and a difficult task. For other problems, such as remote sensing or medical imaging, labeling data may require very expensive tests so that only a small set of labeled data may be available. In some other domains, like targeted marketing, only a few positive samples are available while unlabeled examples are plentiful. In all these cases, we need to find ways of relieving the users of the annotation burden. Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 22, 2005 Final camera ready submissions: May 13, 2005 Workshop Web page: http://www-connex.lip6.fr/~amini/lpctd_icml05.html ------------------------------ From: Kurt Driessens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ICML-2005 Workshop on Rich Representations for Reinforcement Learning Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:49:34 +1300 Call for Papers Workshop on Rich Representations for Reinforcement Learning Bonn, Germany, August 7th, 2005 in conjunction with ICML-2005 Web Site: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~kurtd/rrfrl/ Reinforcement learning has developed into a primary approach to learning control strategies for autonomous agents. The majority of work has focused on propositional or attribute-value representations of states and actions, simple temporal models of action, and memoryless policy representations. Many problem domains, however, are not easily represented under these assumptions. Given the co-location of ICML with ILP this year, we expect attendees from both conferences to participate in the workshop as the topic intersects with interests of both, in particular the incorporation of relational and logical representations into reinforcement learning. Important Dates: April 1 Paper submission deadline April 22 Notification of acceptance May 13 Final paper deadline August 7 Workshop date ------------------------------ From: Alfred Kobsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: UM05 Workshop on Privacy-Enhanced Personalization Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:33:42 -0800 PEP05: UM05 WORKSHOP ON PRIVACY-ENHANCED PERSONALIZATION Personalizing people's interaction with computer systems entails gathering considerable amounts of data about them. As numerous recent surveys have consistently demonstrated, computer users are very concerned about their privacy. Moreover, the collection of personal data is also subject to legal regulations in many countries and states. The one-day workshop will be held during the Tenth International Conference on User Modeling in Edinburgh, Scotland (http://gate.ac.uk/conferences/um2005/um05.html). It is intended for researchers and practitioners both in the domain of personalization systems and in the area of privacy and security who will make active contributions to the workshop. Papers should follow the UM05 Instructions for Authors specified at www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html and be mailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] by March 7, 2005. Each paper and position statement will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Accepted contributions will be published in the workshop proceedings and will be available on the Web before the workshop. Depending on the quality of the accepted papers, there may also be a post-conference book publication. Workshop Web site: http://www.isr.uci.edu/pep05/ ------------------------------ From: Pascal Hitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: IJCAI-05 Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:16:30 +0100 Call for Papers Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy'05) on August 1st, 2005 in Edinburgh, Scotland in conjunction with with IJCAI-05 Artificial Intelligence researchers continue to face huge challenges in their quest to develop truly intelligent systems. The recent developments in the field of neural-symbolic integration bring an opportunity to integrate well-founded symbolic artificial intelligence with robust neural computing machinery to help tackle some of these challenges. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers that have not been submitted for review or published elsewhere. Submitted papers must be written in English and should not exceed 8 pages in the case of research and experience papers, and 4 pages in the case of position papers (including figures, bibliography and appendices). All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality, relevance, originality, significance, and soundness. Papers must be submitted directly by email in PDF format to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Important Dates Deadline for submission: 4th of March, 2005 Notification of acceptance: 18th of April, 2005 Camera-ready paper due: 16th of May, 2005 General questions should be addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Workshop Web site: http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy05/ ------------------------------ From: Tobias Scheffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Discovery Science 2005 Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:50:51 +0100 Eighth International Conference on Discovery Science October 8-11, 2005, Singapore Call for Papers The 8th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS'05) will be held in Singapore, Marina Mandarin Hotel, from 8-11 of October 2005. DS'05 will be collocated with ALT'05, the 16th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory. The two conferences will be held in parallel, and they will share their invited talks. The proceedings of DS'05 will appear in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence by Springer-Verlag. DS'05 provides an open forum for intensive discussions and interchange of new information among researchers working in the area of Discovery Science. The scope of the conference includes the analysis and development of methods for intelligent data analysis, knowledge discovery and machine learning, as well as their application to scientific knowledge discovery. DS 2005 features a new mentoring program. Students who are first authors of papers are invited to submit a paper draft on or before the mentoring deadline. They will receive a comments from a PC member that will help them to prepare the final submission. Conference Web site: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~achim/DS05/. Important Dates Mentoring deadline: March 4 Submission deadline: May 20 Notifications of acceptance: June 26 Camera-ready copy due: July 20 Conference: October 8-11 ------------------------------ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2005 Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:27:50 +0900 CALL FOR PAPERS 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'05) September 19-22, 2005 Compiegne University of Technology, France http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT05/ http://www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05/ Sponsored By IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - Paper submission due: April 3, 2005 - Submission websites: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT05/ http://www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05/ Important Dates Electronic submission of full papers: ** April 3, 2005 ** Notification of paper acceptance: June 9, 2005 Workshop and tutorial proposals: June 9, 2005 Camera-ready of accepted papers: July 4, 2005 Workshops/Tutorials: September 19, 2005 Conference: September 20-22, 2005 More detailed instructions and the on-line submission form can be found from the IAT'05 home pages. A selected number of IAT'05 papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and in Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics (http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html) ------------------------------ From: Daniel Gildea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:56:05 -0500 Call for Papers CoNLL-2005: Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning Organized at ACL 2005, Ann Arbor, MI June 29-30, 2005 CoNLL is an international conference for discussion and presentation of research on natural language learning. We invite submission of papers about natural language learning topics. See http://cnts.uia.ac.be/signll/ and http://cnts.uia.ac.be/signll/conll.html for more information about SIGNLL and CoNLL. A paper submitted to CoNLL-2005 must describe original, unpublished work. Submit a full paper of no more than 8 pages in PDF format by April 4, 2005 electronically through the web form at http://www.softconf.com/start/CoNLL05/submit.html. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. The submitted paper should be in two column format and follow the ACL style. Since reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations, and there should be no self-references that reveal the authors' identity. In the submission form, you will be asked for the following information: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses, contact author's email address, a list of keywords, abstract, and an indication of whether the paper has been submitted to other conferences (and, if so, which conferences). The contact author of an accepted paper under multiple submissions should inform the program co-chairs immediately whether he or she intends the accepted paper to appear in CoNLL-2005. A paper that appears in CoNLL-2005 must be withdrawn from other conferences. Release of data for the shared task on semantic role labeling is scheduled for January 28, 2005. More information will be available from the shared task Web page at http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~srlconll/. Important Dates Deadline for main session paper submission: April 4, 2005 Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2005 Deadline for camera-ready papers: May 17, 2005 Conference: June 29-30, 2005 Conference Web site: http://cnts.uia.ac.be/conll2005/ ------------------------------ From: Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: The Second Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:18:06 -0800 Preliminary Call for Papers The Second Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) July 21-22, 2005 (Thurs/Fri) Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA http://www.ceas.cc The Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) invites the submission of papers for its second meeting. Papers are invited on all aspects of email, instant messaging, cell phone text messaging, and voice over internet protocol (VoIP). This includes spam, spit (spam over internet telephony), spim (spam over instant messenger), phishing and identity theft via messaging, viruses, spyware, etc. including research papers, industry reports, and law and policy papers. KEY DATES: Paper Submission Deadline: March 15 Notification of acceptance: May 16 Final camera-ready version of papers: June 16 Conference: July 21 and 22 Suggestions for panel discussions are also welcome, and should be sent to the program chairs at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ From: David Duling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: KDD-2005 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:16:32 -0500 (EST) KDD-2005 The Eleventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining August 21-24, 2005 Chicago, IL, USA http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2005 Important Dates: Submission Deadlines: Electronic Abstract Submission: Feb. 18, 2005 *at noon CST* Electronic Paper Submission: Feb. 28, 2005 *at noon CST* Submission Format: Camera-Ready (no more than 10 pages), electronic submissions *in PDF format only* Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 20, 2005 Camera-ready papers due: June 3, 2005 Tutorial proposals due March 14, 2005 Notification of acceptance/rejection April 1, 2005 Camera-ready copy of tutorial notes due June 1, 2005 * KDD-2004: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2004/program/tutorials/ * KDD-2003: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2003/tutorials.html * KDD-2002: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2002/tutorials.html * KDD-2001: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2001/Tutorials/tutorials.html Workshop proposals due: March 7, 2005 Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 28, 2005 ------------------------------ From: Emanuel Kitzelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: JMLR Special Topic Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 13:09:52 +0100 Call for Papers Journal of Machine Learning Research, http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/ Special Topic on Approaches and Applications of Inductive Programming Guest Editors: Ute Schmid, http://www.cogsys.wiai.uni-bamberg.de/schmid Roland Olsson, http://www-ia.hiof.no/~rolando http://www.cogsys.wiai.uni-bamberg.de/jmlrST/jmlrcfp.html Submission procedure: Follow JMLR's standard submission procedure as described at http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/author-info.html. For submission you need to register to the JMLR electronic submission management system: http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/manudb/. Please include a note stating that your submission is for the special topic on Approaches and Applications of Inductive Programming. Important Dates: * Submission due: July 1st, 2005 * Decision: October 1st, 2005 * Final version due: December 1st, 2005 ------------------------------ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Workshop proposals: Third Intl Conference on Knowledge Capture Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:32:59 -0800 K-CAP 2005 Call for Workshop Proposals The K-CAP 2005 Program Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program for K-CAP 2005, to be held October 2-5 in Banff, Canada. Workshops will be held on Sunday, October 2, immediately before the main conference starts. K-CAP workshops will provide an informal setting where workshop participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Our aim for the workshop program is to promote and collect multidisciplinary research directions and potentially interesting technologies for efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources. Members from all research areas related to knowledge capture are invited to submit workshop proposals. Important Dates for Workshops * April 7, 2005: Proposal submission deadline * April 28, 2005: Acceptance notification * May 12, 2005: Publications of Call for Participation * August 22, 2005: Publication of K-CAP 2003 workshop program * September 12, 2005: Deadline for camera-ready workshop notes * October 2, 2005: K-CAP 2003 workshops Please send your proposals and any inquiries to: Marie desJardins, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 410-455-3967 Conference home page: http://www.kcap05.org ------------------------------ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Special Session on Data Mining for Business Intelligence Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:18:34 +0100 CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session on Data Mining for Business Intelligence http://www.neural-forecasting.com/conferences/DMIN05/cfp_dmin05.htm at the 2005 International Conference on Data Mining Part of the 2005 World Congress in Applied Computing Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA June 20-23, 2005 Paper Submission Please submit draft papers to: Robert Stahlbock, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Important Dates March 14th, 2005 - Draft papers due March 30, 2005 - Notification of acceptance ------------------------------ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Workshop on Parameter Setting in Genetic and Evolutionary Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:12:46 +0000 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION PSGEA-2005 Parameter Setting in Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms Part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Washington, D.C., June 25-29, 2005 www.isgec.org/GECCO-2005 For more detailed submission guidelines and recent updates, see the workshop pages at http://w3.ualg.pt/~flobo/psgea-2005/index.html Important Dates (subject to change) Paper submission deadline: 14 March, 2005 Decisions will be mailed by: 8 April, 2005 Submissions of camera-ready papers: 22 April, 2005 Workshop day: 25 June, 2005 Further information will be posted on the workshop web pages at http://w3.ualg.pt/~flobo/psgea-2005/index.html. ------------------------------ From: Hinrich Schuetze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Research position at the Insitute for NLP, Stuttgart Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 11:34:56 -0800 The Institute for Natural Language Processing at the University of Stuttgart (Institut fuer Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Lehrstuhl Theoretische Computerlinguistik) is seeking applicants for a postdoctoral position in NLP Information Retrieval Computer scientists and computational linguists in any related area are encouraged to apply, but preference will be given to candidates who specialize in one or more of the following areas: * machine-learning approaches to NLP/IR question-answering intelligent * information retrieval data-driven approaches to computational * linguistics information extraction text and data mining theory, * methods and applications of machine learning We offer an excellent computing environment and the prospect to work on cutting-edge research projects in a dynamic and international research team. Applicants are expected to contribute to research projects at the institute and to teach classes. The position is available immediately. Initial funding is for two years. The position is at the rank of Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter. The salary is about 40.000 Euro (salary and benefits) per year. The exact amount depends on age and marital status. Applications should include a CV, a statement of research experience and interests, and the names/addresses of three references by mail or email to: Sabine Dieterle Institut fuer Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung Universitaet Stuttgart Azenbergstr. 12 D-70174 Stuttgart Germany sabine (at) ims.uni-stuttgart.de Applicants should submit their applications by March 15, 2005, but the search will continue until the position is filled. The University of Stuttgart is committed to increasing the proportion of women in research and teaching. Qualified women are encouraged to apply. ------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 17, No. 1 ************************************