<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Apologies to those of you who receive this more than once.<br><br><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> 18th Annual</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> (Benelearn 09)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Call for Participation</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> 18 and 19 May 2009</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Tilburg University</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> Early registration deadline: May 10, 2009</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://benelearn09.uvt.nl/">http://benelearn09.uvt.nl/</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div>Scope<br><br>Benelearn is the annual machine learning conference of Belgium and The<br>Netherlands. It serves as a forum for researchers to exchange ideas,<br>present recent work, and foster collaboration in the broad field of<br>Machine Learning and its applications.<br><br>Benelearn 09 will be organised by the Tilburg centre for Creative<br>Computing of Tilburg University. The conference will take place on 18<br>and 19 May 2009 at Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands.<br><br><div><br></div><div>Keynotes </div><div><br></div><div>Khalil Sima'an - University of Amsterdam</div><div>Steffen Pauws - Philips Research Europe</div><div><br><br></div><div>Conference Programme</div><div>The conference programme can be found at: <a href="http://benelearn09.uvt.nl/Programme.html">http://benelearn09.uvt.nl/Programme.html</a><br><br></div><div><br>Important dates<br><br>10 May, 2009 - Deadline early registration at <a href="http://benelearn09.uvt.nl/Registration.html">http://benelearn09.uvt.nl/Registration.html</a><br>18 and 19 May, 2009 - Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning<br><br><br><br>Programme Committee<br><br>Hendrik Blockeel, K.U. Leuven <br>Gianluca Bontempi, U.L. Bruxelles <br>Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University <br>Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp<br>Pierre Dupont, U.C. Louvain <br>Damien Ernst, University of Liège <br>Marieke van Erp, Tilburg University <br>Ad Feelders, Universiteit Utrecht <br>Bart Goethals, Antwerp University <br>Tom Heskes, Radboud University Nijmegen <br>Bernard Manderick, Vrije Universiteit Brussel <br>Raphaël Marée, University of Liège </div><div>Bart de Moor, K.U. Leuven <br>Martijn van Otterlo, K.U. Leuven <br>Justus Piater, University of Liège<br>Luc De Raedt, K.U. Leuven <br>Jan Ramon, K.U. Leuven <br>Yvan Saeys, Ghent University <br>Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Liège<br>Evgueni Smirnov, Maastricht University <br>Maarten van Someren, Universiteit van Amsterdam <br>Kristel Van Steen, University of Liège <br>Herman Stehouwer, Tilburg University <br>Johan Suykens, K.U. Leuven <br>Koenraad VanHoof, Universiteit Hasselt <br>Michel Verleysen, U.C. Louvain <br>Paul Vitanyi, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica <br>Louis Wehenkel, University of Liège <br>Menno van Zaanen, Tilburg University <br><br><br><br>Organizing Committee<br><br>Marieke van Erp M.G.J.vanErp (at) uvt.nl<br>Herman Stehouwer J.H.Stehouwer (at) uvt.nl<br>Menno van Zaanen mvzaanen (at) uvt.nl<br><br>Tilburg centre for Creative Computing<br>Department of Communication and Information Sciences<br>Tilburg University<br>The Netherlands<br><br><br><br>Contact<br><br>Menno van Zaanen<br>Tilburg centre for Creative Computing<br>Department of Communication and Information Sciences<br>Tilburg University<br>The Netherlands<br>mvzaanen (at) uvt.nl<br><br><br><br>Workshop website<br><br><a href="http://benelearn09.uvt.nl/">http://benelearn09.uvt.nl/</a><br><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>