Corpora: final CFP: IJCAI workshop, Text Learning: Beyond Supervision

[Lillian Lee]

FINAL CFP
Text Learning: Beyond Supervision
Workshop at IJCAI 2001
August 6, 2001
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mccallum/textbeyond/

* By IJCAI regulations, registration is by invitation only; please
  email the organizing committee if you would like an invitation *

The program consists of paper and poster presentations, plus invited
talks by Tommi Jaakkola and David Yarowsky (see below).  Please see the above
website for further information.




                      Schedule of the IJCAI-01 Workshop on
                        Text Learning: Beyond Supervision

                                August 6th, 2001
                               Seattle, Washington

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     8:30 Welcome

     8:40 Invited talk
          Title: TBA
          Tommi Jaakkola

     9:40 Short Presentations (10 min. per paper):

          Selective Sampling + Semi-supervised Learning =
          Robust Multi-View Learning
          Ion Muslea, Steven Minton, and Craig A. Knoblock

          Acquisition of a knowledge dictionary for a text mining system
          using an inductive learning method
          Shigeaki Sakurai, Yumi Ichimura, Akihiro Suyama, and Ryohei Orihara

          Unsupervised Acquisition of Usage Classes
          Scott A. Waterman

          Detection of errors in training data by using a decision list
          and Adaboost
          Hiroyuki Shinnou

          Feature Set Reduction for Document Classification Problems
          Karel Fuka and Rudolf Hanka

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    10:30 Break and poster presentations

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    11:00 Long Presentations (25 min. per paper):

          Multivariate Information Bottleneck
          Nir Friedman, Ori Mosenzon, Noam Slonim, and Naftali Tishby

          Improving Text Classification with LSI Using Background Knowledge
          Sarah Zelikovitz and Haym Hirsh

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    11:50 Lunch

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    13:35 Invited talk
          Title: TBA
          David Yarowsky

    14:35 Long Presentations (25 min. per paper):

          Induction of Part of Speech Class Labels Using
          Only Language Universals
          Patrick Schone and Daniel Jurafsky

          Ontology-based Text Clustering
          A. Hotho, S. Staab, and A. Maedche

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    15:25 Break and poster presentations

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    15:55 Long Presentations (25 min. per paper):

          Probabilistic Models of Text and Link Structure
          for Hypertext Classification
          Lise Getoor, Eran Segal, Ben Taskar, and Daphne Koller

          Semi-Supervised Learning Using Prior Probabilities and EM
          Rebecca Bruce

    16:45 Discussion and Wrap-up

    17:00 Official end

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Organizing Committee

Andrew McCallum
  WhizBang Labs - Research, 4616 Henry Street, Pittsburgh, PA  15218
  mccallum at whizbang.com
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mccallum

Kamal Nigam
  School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
  knigam at cs.cmu.edu
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~knigam

Tony Jebara
  MIT, Media Laboratory - 20 Ames Street, E15-390, Cambridge, MA 02138
  jebara at media.mit.edu
  http://www.media.mit.edu/~jebara

Lillian Lee
  Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
  llee at cs.cornell.edu
  http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee