9.1791, Calls: Language and gender, Information Filtering
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LINGUIST List: Vol-9-1791. Wed Dec 16 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.
Subject: 9.1791, Calls: Language and gender, Information Filtering
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:31:37 -0500 (EST)
From: "Treffers-Daller, Jeanine" <Jeanine.Treffers-Daller at uwe.ac.uk>
Subject: Language and gender
2)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:01:29 +0100
From: Thorsten Joachims <thorsten at kimo.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: "Machine Learning for Information Filtering" Workshop at IJCAI99
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:31:37 -0500 (EST)
From: "Treffers-Daller, Jeanine" <Jeanine.Treffers-Daller at uwe.ac.uk>
Subject: Language and gender
ASSOCIATION FOR FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDIES
IN CONJUNCTION WITH
THE CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES, UWE, BRISTOL
Discours masculins, discours feminins
Saturday, 6 February 1999
Room 4C23, Faculty of Languages and European Studies
Frenchay Campus, UWE, Bristol
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee and Registration outside of 4C23
11.00 - 11.30 Kate Beeching (UWE, Bristol).Welcome and Overview.
11.30 - 12.30 MARINA YAGUELLO (Universit de Paris 7 -Denis
Diderot)
12:30 - 1:00 Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck, University of London)
p
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch Room 4D05
2.00 - 2.30 Ccile Bauvois (Universit de Mons-Hainault)
2.30 - 3.00 Nigel Armstrong (University of Newcastle)
3.00 - 3.30 Tea Room 4D05
3.30 - 4.00 Jacques-Philippe Saint-Grand (Universit
Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand II)
4.00 - 4.30 Tim Pooley (London Guildhall University)
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Please complete by Friday 22 January and return to:
Mrs Jessa Karki
Research Secretary
Faculty of Languages and European Studies
UWE, Bristol, Frenchay Campus
Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY
Telephone: 0117 976 3842, ext 2724
Fax: 0117 976 2626
E-mail: Jessa.Karki at uwe.ac.uk
Please indicate your choice by checking a box below:
Workshop Fee (including Lunch, Coffee, and Tea) 25.00
Undergraduate Student Fee (no catering included) 5.00
Please make cheques payable to UWE, Bristol.
Vegetarian: NO/YES (delete as appropriate)
Name: Occupation:
Institution: Address:
Postal Code:
Telephone: Fax:
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Treffers-Daller, Jeanine
Email: Jeanine.Treffers-Daller at uwe.ac.uk
"University of the West of England"
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:01:29 +0100
From: Thorsten Joachims <thorsten at kimo.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: "Machine Learning for Information Filtering" Workshop at IJCAI99
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Call for Participation
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Workshop on
"Machine Learning for Information Filtering"
at the International Joint Conference
on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 99
August 1st, 1998
Stockholm, Sweden
http://www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de/EVENTS/IJCAI99-MLIF
The enormous growth of on-line information and electronic commerce has
brought about a comparable growth in research on methods for
automatically organizing and personalizing information. The
"information filtering" task has simultaneously emerged as an active
research topic in several disciplines, including information retrieval,
human computer interaction, natural language processing, and machine
learning. The information filtering task manifests itself in many
theoretically challenging and commercially important applications, such
as electronic commerce and marketing, search engines, information push
applications, browsing assistants, and adaptive Web sites.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on
information filtering from many subfields of AI, while emphasizing the
machine learning techniques and algorithms many of these subfields
share. These techniques include
* text classification methods (probabilistic methods, support vector
machines, first order methods, use of unlabeled data, etc.)
* collaborative filtering methods (use of complex user and object
profiles (e.g. citation structure), novel clustering models and
methods, etc.)
* other methods for learning user preferences (learning orderings,
etc.)
* combinations of approaches and multi-strategy learning
* representational issues (knowledge representation, NLP techniques,
representing interest, representing information objects, feature
selection, term weighting, data transformation, latent semantic
indexing, etc.)
* clustering methods (similarity measures, mixture models, etc.)
* scalability issues
* formal models and theory
* handling different media (text, images, sound, etc.)
* evaluation techniques
Besides these topics, the workshop covers all theoretical and
methodological issues concerning information filtering. Submissions
describing innovative applications of information filtering are also
encouraged. By bringing together industrial representatives with
researchers, the workshop will
* show how problems from industry present new research issues.
* identify ways in which research results may be put in more
widespread practice in an industrial setting.
TIMETABLE
April 6, 1999 Submission deadline
May 3, 1999 Notification of acceptance
May 24, 1999 Camera-ready copy due
August 1, 1999 Workshop
ORGANIZATION
The workshop will be one full day, including invited talks, paper
presentations, poster presentations, and numerous opportunities for
discussion. Depending on submissions, there will be joint sessions with
the workshop "Text Mining: Foundations, Techniques and Applications" on
topics of common interest. Participation in the workshop is limited
according to IJCAI regulations. All workshop participants have to
register for the IJCAI conference. The working notes of the workshop
will be published online.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Those interested in making a presentation should submit a full paper
electronically either as a Postscript or PDF to
joachims at ls8.cs.uni-dortmund.de. The first page of submitted papers
should include: title, author names and affiliations, a brief abstract.
It should also name a designated contact person with his or her postal
address, electronic mail address, telephone and fax number. Submissions
should not exceed 8 pages according to the IJCAI formatting
instructions and should be printable on 8.5" x 11" or A4 paper.
Those interested in participating in the workshop, but not submitting a
paper, should submit a one-page abstract of their research interests in
learning methods for information filtering.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Thorsten Joachims (Chair) Andrew McCallum
Universitaet Dortmund Just Research
FB Informatik, LS8 4616 Henry Street
Baroper Str. 301 Pittsburgh, PA 15213
44221 Dortmund, Germany Phone: (412) 683-9132
Phone: +49 231 755 5102 FAX: (412) 683-4175
FAX: +49 231 755 5105 Email: mccallum at justresearch.com
joachims at ls8.cs.uni-dortmund.de
Mehran Sahami Lyle Ungar
Epiphany, Inc. University of Pennsylvania
2300 Geng Road Dept of Comp. and Info. Sci.
Palo Alto, CA 94303 200 S. 33rd St.
Phone: (650) 496-2399 Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389
FAX: (650) 496-2431 Phone: (215) 898-7449
Email: sahami at epiphany.com FAX: (215) 898-0587
Email: ungar at cis.upenn.edu
FURTHER INFORMATION
http://www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de/EVENTS/IJCAI99-MLIF
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