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ICML 2011 - Call for Papers

The 28th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) will be held in
Bellevue, WA, USA, June 28 to July 02, 2011.

http://www.icml-2011.org

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ICML 2011 invites the submission of engaging papers on substantial,
original, and previously unpublished research in all aspects of machine
learning. We welcome submissions of innovative work on systems that are self
adaptive, systems that improve their own performance, or systems that apply
logical, statistical, probabilistic or other formalisms to the analysis of
data, to the learning of predictive models, to cognition, or to interaction
with the environment. We welcome innovative applications, theoretical
contributions, carefully evaluated empirical studies, and we particularly
welcome work that combines all of these elements. We also encourage
submissions that bridge the gap between machine learning and other fields of
research.

[IMPORTANT DATES]

- Workshop and tutorial proposals: January 14, 2011.
- Paper submissions due: February 1, 2011.
- Author response period: March 25-30, 2011.
- Author notification: April 19, 2011.
- Workshop submissions due: April 29, 2011.
- Workshop author notification: May 20, 2011.
- Joint ICML-ACL-ISCA symposium: June 27, 2011.
- Tutorials: June 28, 2011.
- Main conference: June 29 - July 1.
- Workshops: July 2, 2011.


[FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE]

The conference will include three days of technical presentations, one day
of tutorials and one day of workshops. In addition the conference will
feature a symposium on "Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing",
organized jointly with with the Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the International Speech Communication
Association (ISCA).
Papers accepted for ICML will each have an oral presentation as well
as a poster
in an evening poster session. Awards will be given for papers of outstanding
quality. There will also be talks by several invited speakers, and a banquet.


[SUBMISSION]

Submission of papers and the management of the paper reviewing process will
be entirely electronic. More instructions for authors can be found at
http://www.icml-2011.org.


[REVIEWING PROCESS]

The review process incorporates some of the community feedback. Authors,
reviewers, and area chairs indicate subject areas. With the help of these
subject areas, area chairs bid for papers and one area chair is assigned to
each paper. During a first round of reviewing, each paper will receive two
reviews. First-round reviewers are assigned via subject areas and bidding.
Area chairs will then select additional reviewers manually based on the
first-round reviews. Authors will then have the opportunity to see and
respond to the reviews before a final decision is made. Final decisions will
be made using the input from all reviewers, the author feedback, the area
chair, and the program chairs. Reviewing for ICML 2011 will be blind to the
identities of the authors.

ICML 2011 will not accept any paper that is substantially similar to another
paper that is currently under review or has already been accepted for
publication in a journal or another conference. Please clearly indicate in
the submission which contributions are novel and which are previous work,
either by the authors or others. If a paper submitted to ICML 2011 and
another already published or already submitted paper contain substantial
overlap in content and this overlap is not clearly indicated (anonymously)
as being previous work, then the ICML submission may be rejected on the
grounds of being a dual submission. Similarly, authors must withdraw their
papers if they submit an overlapping paper elsewhere during ICML's review
period. For papers published in substantially disjoint communities
(application conferences, for example), the amount of novel content a paper
needs to contain may be less, as long as the submitted papers are themselves
clearly targeted to a machine-learning audience.

With your help, we expect another excellent conference!


[ORGANIZING COMMITTEE]

General Chair:
                Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge

Program Co-chairs:
                Lise Getoor, University of Maryland, College Park
                Tobias Scheffer, University of Potsdam

Local Arrangements Chair:
                Dragos Margineantu, Boeing Research & Technology
                Tomas Singliar, Boeing Research & Technology

Workshop Chairs:
                Jerry Zhu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
                Katherine Heller, University of Cambridge

Tutorial Chairs:
                Francis Bach, INRIA
                Ulf Brefeld, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona

Publicity Chair:
                Prem Melville, IBM Research

Funding Chairs:
                Alan Fern, Oregon State University
                Hal Daumé III, University of Maryland, College Park

Publication Chairs:
                Hal Daumé III, University of Maryland, College Park
                Kilian Weinberger, Washington University, St. Louis

Sponsorship Chair:
                Jesse Davis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Volunteers Chair:
                Jim Schimert, Boeing Research & Technology

Registration Chair:
                Duane Blanchard, Boeing Research & Technology

Joint ICML/ACL/ISCA Symposium Chairs:
                Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                Hal Daumé III, University of Maryland, College Park
                Geoff Zweig, Microsoft Research
                Joseph Keshet, Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago