Final Call for papers: one day workshop
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*** Extended Submission deadline: April 15, 2005 ***
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"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
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Workshop Description
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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.



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Submissions
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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 [log in to unmask] 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:

* Original Submission deadline: April 1, 2005
* Extended Submission deadline: April 15, 2005
* Notification date: April 22, 2005 (targeted, though possibly moved)
* Final date for camera-ready copies to organizers:
  May 13, 2005



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Organizers
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Stephan Bloehdorn, Intitute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe
Wray Buntine, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel



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Committee
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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



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Sponsors
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ALVIS
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