Call for papers: one day workshop (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- "LEARNING IN WEB SEARCH" http://cosco.hiit.fi/search/learninginsearch05/ August 7, 2005 to be held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2005), Bonn, Germany http://icml2005.ais.fraunhofer.de/ August 7-11, 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Description ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview: The emerging world of search we see is one which makes increasing use of information extraction, gradually blends in semantic web technology and peer to peer systems, and uses grid computing as part of resources for information extraction and learning. This workshop explores the theory and application of machine learning in this context for the internet, intranets, the emerging semantic web, and peer to peer search. The workshop also aims to advertise and promote suitable software and data infrastructure to support the research, and community platforms, open source solutions, and grid tools for large scale experiments. Areas: There are many exciting opportunities here both in applications for machine learning and in new fundamental research problems for the community: Some search areas we are interested in include (but are not limited to): * identifying named-entities, and keywords from minimal examples; * learning mappings between query words and document words for question answering; * identifying per-site boilerplate and template; * distributing indexes and routing queries in a peer to peer search engine; * optimising query ranking formula using clickthrough data; * the language modelling approach to web retrieval; * personalisation of search; * text summarization and results summarization or clustering; * information extraction from text for semantic indexing and automatic knowledge markup; * domain specific clustering and categorization, useful in domain specific search engines lacking good ontologies; and * semi-automatic support in ontology development and maintenance (ontology learning, evolution) In addition, we have an interest in means of supporting machine learning via software platforms and tools suitable databases, content or logs (note TREC, MUC etc.). Position papers regarding the relevant application and theory of machine learning are also encouraged. Format: The workshop will take place over the full day of Sunday, 7th August 2005. It will be open format though attendance will be limited by space. There will be invited talks by Soumen Chakrabarti, Thomas Hofmann and Andrew McCallum. The afternoon panel will be drawn from the program committee and will include speakers positions as well as audience participation. The workshop proceedings will be available on-line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Talks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Soumen Chakrabarti Thomas Hofmann Andrew McCallum ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit papers on the topics outlined above or on other related issues. Submissions should not exceed 8 pages, and should be in line with the ICML formatting guidelines on their website. Some places will be reserved for work focusing on the demonstration of systems (and electronic submission for these can be shorter). Electronic submissions, in PDF format, should be emailed to Wray Buntine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] If email submissions are not possible, please post two copies of your submission (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, P.O. Box 9800, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland) to arrive on the deadline. This is discouraged since authors <are expected to produce PDF for the proceedings. Timetable: * Submission deadline: April 1, 2005 * Notification date: April 22, 2005 * Final date for camera-ready copies to organizers: May 13, 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephan Bloehdorn, Intitute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe Wray Buntine, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Buitelaar, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Soumen Chakrabarti, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield David Cohn, Google Eric Gaussier, XEROX Research Centre Europe Siegfried Handschuh, FZI, University of Karlsruhe and Ontoprise GmbH Thomas Hofmann, Brown University Yaoyong Li, University of Sheffield Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst Dunja Mladenic, J. Stefan Institute Mehran Sahami, Google and Stanford University Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz Henry Tirri, Nokia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsors ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ALVIS KnowledgeWeb OpenSourceSearch PASCAL SEKT SmartWeb _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
