Machine Learning List: Vol. 17, No. 2 Thursday, April 6, 2005 Contents Calls for Papers/Participation CFP: ACL 2005 Workshop on Feature Engineering CFP: ACL 2005 WORKSHOP ON EMPIRICAL MODELING Special issue on Statistical and Probabilistic Methods ECML PKDD 05: Call For Papers 1st CFP: IDAMAP-2005 CFP: IEEE ICDM'05 EXTENDED DEADLINE: WS at GECCO IJCAI Workshop IEEE CEC 2005 News -- No Free Lunch Event Call for IPSI Transactions Special Issues CfP: Workshop on Verification, Validation, Certification AIRWeb '05: Call for Participation NIPS 2005 Call for Papers CFP for Workshop on Autonomous Robots Final CFP - extended deadline: PMHLA Career Opportunities [Mlnet] Open University Position in Austria Two PhD positions on machine learning for bioinformatics Postdoctoral positions The Machine Learning List is moderated. Contributions should be relevant to the scientific study of machine learning. Please send submissions for distribution to: ml@isle.org. 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The ML List moderator reserves the right to omit/edit submissions to meet these criteria. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Eric Ringger" Subject: CFP: ACL 2005 Workshop on Feature Engineering Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:31:05 -0800 CALL FOR PAPERS Feature Engineering for Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing Workshop at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2005) http://research.microsoft.com/~ringger/FeatureEngineeringWorkshop/ ** Submission Deadline: April 20, 2005 ** Ann Arbor, Michigan June 29, 2005 As experience with machine learning for solving natural language processing tasks accumulates in the field, practitioners are finding that feature engineering is as critical as the choice of machine learning algorithm, if not more so. Feature design, feature selection, and feature impact (through ablation studies and the like) significantly affect the performance of systems and deserve greater attention. In the wake of the shift away from knowledge engineering and of the successes of data-driven and statistical methods, researchers in the field are likely to make further progress by incorporating additional, sometimes familiar, sources of knowledge as features. Although some experience in the area of feature engineering is to be found in the theoretical machine learning community, the particular demands of natural language processing leave much to be discovered. This workshop aims to bring together practitioners of NLP, machine learning, information extraction, speech processing, and related fields with the intention of sharing experimental evidence for successful approaches to feature engineering, including feature design and feature selection. We welcome papers that address these goals. We also seek to distill best practices and to discover new sources of knowledge and features previously untapped. SUBMISSION Submitted papers should be prepared in PDF format (all fonts included) or Microsoft Word .doc format and not longer than 8 pages following the ACL style. More detailed information about the format of submissions can be found here: http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005/index.php?stylefiles IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission deadline: April 20, 2005; Noon, PST (GMT-8) - Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2005 - Submission of camera-ready copy: May 17, 2005 - Workshop: June 29, 2005 ORGANIZATION Chair and contact person: Eric Ringger Microsoft Research One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 USA ringger AT microsoft DOT com ------------------------------ From: "Chris Brockett" Subject: CFP: ACL 2005 WORKSHOP ON EMPIRICAL MODELING Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:31:29 -0800 CALL FOR PAPERS EMPIRICAL MODELING OF SEMANTIC EQUIVALENCE AND ENTAILMENT Workshop at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2005) Ann Arbor, Michigan June 30, 2005 http://research.microsoft.com/~billdol/ACL_CFP.htm ** Submission Deadline: April 20, 2005 ** Our aim is to bring together people working on empirical, application-independent approaches to the practical problems of semantic inference. We welcome papers describing original work on computational approaches to modeling the problems of semantic equivalence and entailment. IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES Paper submission deadline: April 20, 2005 Camera ready copy: May 20, 2005 Workshop date: June 30, 2005 CORPORA RELEASE Two datasets are being released in conjunction with this workshop, in order to stimulate submissions and thinking around this topic. While we hope that these will be useful for training, evaluation, and analysis, authors are invited to use whatever resources/approaches are at their disposal. -- The Pascal Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge Corpus: 1K sentence pairs that have been human-annotated with directional entailments (http://www.pascal-network.org/Challenges/RTE/) -- The Microsoft Research Paraphrase Corpus: 5801 likely sentential paraphrase pairs gathered automatically from topically clustered news articles. Multiple human raters examined each pair, classifying more than 3900 as close enough in meaning to be considered equivalent (http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/). This is the first time this corpus has been made available. CONTACT For questions, comments, etc. please send email to billdol@microsoft.com ------------------------------ From: Ingrid Zukerman Subject: Special issue on Statistical and Probabilistic Methods Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:46:56 +1100 **** NOTE: Submission Deadline is Oct. 31, 2005 **** CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Statistical and Probabilistic Methods for User Modeling User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (an international journal published by Springer Verlag) BACKGROUND: The growth in popularity of on-line resources highlights the importance of developing machinery to access these resources. At the same time, the access to these resources by large numbers of users provides opportunities for collecting and leveraging vast amounts of data about user activity. In the last decade, there have been significant developments in probabilistic, data-intensive technologies for accessing information in on-line resources. The field of user modeling has also been part of this trend, with the development of statistical models of the behaviour, capabilities and preferences of users and groups of users. This Special Issue of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction will explore recent developments in different aspects of statistical and probabilistic techniques for user modeling. HOW TO SUBMIT: Submissions to the special issue should follow the UMUAI submission instructions which are obtainable from the Web site http://www.umuai.org Electronic submissions are preferred. Each submission should note that it is intended for the Special Issue on Statistical and Probabilistic Methods for User Modeling. UMUAI is an archival journal that publishes mature and substantiated research results on the (dynamic) adaptation of computer systems to their human users, and the role that a model of the system about the user plays in this context. Many articles in UMUAI are quite comprehensive and describe the results of several years of work. Consequently, UMUAI gives "unlimited" space to authors (so long as what they write is important). Potential authors are asked to notify the guest editors (David Albrecht email: dwa@csse.monash.edu.au, and Ingrid Zukerman, email: ingrid@csse.monash.edu.au) as soon as possible of their intent to submit an article. Sometime thereafter (but preferably a month prior to the submission deadline), they should submit a tentative title and short abstract (which can be altered for the actual submission) to assist in the formation of a panel of appropriate reviewers. IMPORTANT DATES: Notification of Intent to Submit: as soon as possible Deadline Date for Submissions: October 31, 2005 ------------------------------ From: Subject: ECML PKDD 05: Call For Papers Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:34:56 -0000 Call for Papers ECML/PKDD-2005 Porto, Portugal, October 3-7, 2005 http://ecmlpkdd05.liacc.up.pt/ mailto:ecmlpkdd05@liacc.up.pt The 16th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the 9th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) will be co-located in Porto, Portugal, October 3-7, 2005. The combined event will comprise presentations of contributed papers and invited speakers, a wide program of workshops and tutorials, a demo session, and a discovery challenge. Important dates - Submission deadline: May 16, 2005 - Notification of acceptance: July 11, 2005 - Camera-ready copies due: July 25, 2005 - Conferences: October 3 to October 7, 2005 ** PKDD Call for Papers Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) is the ability to extract useful patterns from large amounts of data stored in databases, data warehouses or other information repositories. KDD is a combination of many research areas: databases, statistics, machine learning, automated scientific discovery, artificial intelligence, visualization, and high performance computing. KDD focuses on the value that is added by the creative combination of the contributing areas. The European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases series intends to provide an international forum for the discussion of the latest high quality research results in KDD and is the major European scientific event in the field. ------------------------------ From: "Niels Peek" Subject: 1st CFP: IDAMAP-2005 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:49:14 +0100 First Call for Papers IDAMAP 2005: INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE AND PHARMACOLOGY Sunday, July 24, 2005 A one-day workshop during the 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 2005 (AIME 05) in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK http://idamap.org/idamap2005 Submission: April 24, 2005 Notification: May 23, 2005 Camera-ready: June 17, 2005 GENERAL INFORMATION IDAMAP-2005, a one day Workshop on intelligent data analysis in medicine and pharmacology, will be held at King's College Conference Centre in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, during the AIME 2005 Conference. This is the tenth IDAMAP Workshop: the former ones were held in Budapest in 1996, Nagoya in 1997, Brighton in 1998, Washington DC in 1999, Berlin in 2000, London in 2001, Lyon in 2002, Cyprus in 2003, and Stanford in 2004. The IDAMAP workshop series is devoted to computational methods for data analysis in medicine, biology and pharmacology that present results of analysis in the form communicable to domain experts and that somehow exploit expert knowledge of the problem domain. Such knowledge may be available at different stages of the data-analysis and model-building process. Typical methods include data mining, temporal abstraction, machine learning, and data visualization. Gathering in an informal setting, workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet and discuss selected technical topics in an atmosphere which fosters the active exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners. The workshop is intended to be a genuinely interactive event and not a mini-conference, thus ample time will be allotted for general discussion. TOPIC In the workshop the attention will be given to methodological issues of intelligent data analysis and on specific applications in medicine, biomedicine and pharmacology. We also invite papers on data analysis tools. Such papers can overview a particular tool and describe why and how this could be suitable for intelligent data analysis in medicine and other application areas that are a subject of the IDAMAP workshop. Preferably, the papers on data analysis tools would also describe a case study where the tool was used. The submissions should be received no later than April 24, 2005. Additional formatting instructions and instructions for authors are available on Workshop's home page at http://idamap.org/idamap2005. REGISTRATION Participants of the workshop are not obliged to register for the AIME conference. However, non-AIME participants will be charged a higher fee than AIME-participants. Details on payment and registration will be announced later this spring and will be posted on the workshop's web page, (http://idamap.org/idamap2005) and the AIME 05 website (http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/aime05/). ------------------------------ From: icdm@wi-lab.com Subject: CFP: IEEE ICDM'05 Date: 11 Mar 2005 20:51:42 +0900 Call for Papers ICDM '05: The 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 27-30 November 2005 http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~icdm05/ (Papers Due: 15 June 2005) The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM '05) provides a premier forum for the dissemination of innovative, practical development experiences as well as original research results in data mining, spanning applications, algorithms, software and systems. The conference draws researchers and application developers from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data warehousing, data visualization, knowledge-based systems and high performance computing. By promoting high quality and novel research findings, and innovative solutions to challenging data mining problems, the conference seeks to continuously advance the state of the art in data mining. As an important part of the conference, the workshops program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives, and the tutorials program will cover emerging data mining technologies and the latest developments in data mining. Conference Publications and ICDM Best Paper Awards High quality papers in all data mining areas are solicited. Original papers exploring new directions will receive especially careful and supportive reviews. Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review at other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at ICDM '05. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the IEEE 2-column format (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm), and will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality, significance, and clarity. Please use the Submission Form on the ICDM '05 website to submit your paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. A selected number of IEEE ICDM '05 accepted papers will be invited for possible inclusion, in an expanded and revised form, in the Knowledge and Information Systems journal (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~kais/) published by Springer-Verlag. IEEE ICDM Best Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application paper. Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the best application paper award. Important Dates June 15, 2005 Paper submissions Tutorial proposals Workshop proposals Panel proposals August 20, 2005 Paper acceptance notices September 7, 2005 Final camera-readies November 27, 2005 Tutorials and Workshops November 28-30, 2005 Conference All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed instructions are provided on the conference home page at http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~icdm05 ------------------------------ From: "Ivan Garibay" Subject: EXTENDED DEADLINE: WS at GECCO Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:10:49 -0500 Workshop Announcement and Call for Papers Second Workshop on SELF-ORGANIZATION IN REPRESENTATIONS FOR EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS: Building complexity from simplicity http://ivan.research.ucf.edu/SOEA-2005.htm to be held as part of the 2005 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2005) June 25-29, 2005 (Saturday-Wednesday) Loew's L'Enfant Plaza Hotel Washington, DC, USA http://www.isgec.org/GECCO-2005 Organized by ACM SIG-EVO * Papers submission deadline EXTENDED: April 14, 2005 * The success of Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) on a wide range of otherwise intractable problems has promoted its use. As EAs are applied to increasingly difficult problems that require increasingly complex solutions, they face a number of problems: premature convergence to suboptimal solutions, stagnation of search in large search spaces, negative epistatic effects, disruption of large building blocks, and scalability, among others. Nature evolves instructions in the form of genes that are used to specify the construction of organisms using a highly non-linear process: development. Self-organization is fundamental to the developmental process at all levels: molecular, genetic, and cellular. With new reports of the number of genes in the human genome being revised downwards, the role of self-organization in complex webs of gene regulation is all the more salient. Given these new findings, perhaps the self-organization of genotypic instructions that transform genotype to phenotype is a key missing ingredient necessary for unleashing the evolution of complex and scalable solutions with emergent phenomena such as: scale-free-ness, adaptability, innovation, evolvability, and robustness. This workshop will focus on domain-independent methods for representing complex solutions with self-organizable building blocks, and on developmental principles for specifying the construction of complex systems. This workshop welcomes submissions from computer science and engineering, as well as from biologists on relevant topics that may help shed light on self-organizing principles for evolutionary computation. Important Dates: Papers Due: April 14, 2005 (April 27 for one-page position statements) Acceptance notices: April 24, 2005 Camera Ready: April 27, 2005 Attendance: Open to all GECCO 2005 attendees visit http://ivan.research.ucf.edu/SOEA-2005.htm ------------------------------ From: "ITS" Subject: IJCAI Workshop Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:43:25 -0500 Multi-Agent Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems IJCAI-2005 Workshop Sunday 31 July, 2005 http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk/ Submission deadline: April 10, 2005 Providing effective access to on-line information is a problem that brings together many Artificial Intelligence topics: knowledge representation, natural language, user modelling and machine learning, as well as distributed computing, Human-Computer Interaction and databases. Over the last few years, artificial intelligence techniques have provided substantial progress toward solving the problems of information access through the following three domains: models and techniques for multi-agents systems, information retrieval and recommender systems. Special consideration will be given to contributions aimed at incorporating multiple models and techniques. We are particularly interested in multi-agent systems dedicated to information retrieval and recommender systems. Application areas include, but are not limited to: e-Commerce, e-Learning, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Design, Resource Planning, User interfaces, Web information retrieval, Web services Important Dates and Deadlines Submission deadline: April 10, 2005 Notification: May 5 Camera-ready copy due: May 22 Workshop date: Sunday July 31, 2005 Primary contact For questions and suggestions, please contact Esma Aïmeur Email: aimeur@iro.umontreal.ca URL: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~aimeur Phone: +1 (514) 343-6794 Fax: +1 (514) 343-5834 ------------------------------ From: Eugene Eberbach Subject: IEEE CEC 2005 News -- No Free Lunch Event Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 05:46:23 -0500 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% CALL FOR PAPERS %% %% 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation %% %% www.cec2005.org %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% SPECIAL SESSIONS: Visit the following URL for an updated list: http://public.cranfield.ac.uk/sims_staff/wcat/cec2005/sessions/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE April 11th 2005 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% NO FREE LUNCH -- TEN YEARS ON %% %% Special Event at IEEE CEC 2005 %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Marking the first decade of research after the publication of the No Free Lunch theorems for optimisation, IEEE CEC 2005 will host a plenary talk by David Wolpert (NASA AMES Research Center) on current NFL research. This event will also involve an invited survey paper, an associated talk (by Mario Koeppen), and an NFL Debate. Key CEC Details: Paper Submission: April 11th 2005 (SUBMISSION IS NOW OPEN at www.cec2005.org) Provisional Notification: May 19th 2005 Final Camera Ready Deadline: June 11th 2005 The Conference: Sep 2--5th 2005 Further Details and Updates: www.cec2005.org ------------------------------ From: IPSI Transactions Special Issues Subject: Call for IPSI Transactions Special Issues Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:23:41 +0100 We are pleased to inform you that both IPSI Transactions journals are planing some special issues in late 2005 and early 2006, and you are welcome to submit your paper(s), until the deadlines listed below! IPSI Transactions on Internet Research: March 31, 2005 - Special Issue on E-Education: Concepts and Infrastructure June 30, 2005 - Special Issue on E-Business: Concepts and Infrastructure IPSI Transactions on Advanced Research: March 31, 2005 - Special Issue on the Research with Multidisciplinary Elements June 30, 2005 - Special Issue on the Research with Interdisciplinary Elements Each submitted paper first undergoes the editor review, and those who pass this first stage are sent to 12 external experts for a rigorous review; decisions are made after at least 6 external reviewers respond! The review is free of charge, but the authors of the accepted papers ar expected to pay the publication fee of E400 per paper (if 4 or 5 or 6 pages of the TIR/TAR format), and the additional fee of E100 per page, for each extra page, till the maximum of 10 pages. ------------------------------ From: Johann Schumann Subject: CfP: Workshop on Verification, Validation, Certification Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:11:42 -0800 CALL FOR PAPERS (my aplogies if you receive this multiple times) WORKSHOP on Verification, Validation and Certification of Neuro-Adaptive Controllers in Safety-Related Areas in conjunction with IJCNN 2005 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks Montreal, Canada August 5th, 2005 Important Dates Submission of paper/abstract: 4/27/2005 Notification of acceptance: 5/4/2005 Camera-ready copy: 5/15/2005 Workshop: 8/5/2005 Over the recent years, artificial Neural Networks (NNs) have found their way into various safety-related and safety-critical areas, like transportation, avionics, environmental monitoring and control, and medical applications. Quite often, these applications (using NN techniques ranging from classification to monitoring and control) proved to be highly successful, leading from a pure research prototype into a serious experimental system (e.g., a neural-network-based flight-control system test-flown on a manned NASA F-15 aircraft) or a commercial product (e.g., Sharp's Logi-cook). The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers and users of learning and adaptive systems and control systems in order to create a forum for discussing recent advances in verification, validation, and testing of learning systems, to understand better the practical requirements for developing and deploying neuro-adaptive, and to inspire research on new methods and techniques for verification, validation, and testing. ------------------------------ From: "Brian D. Davison" Subject: AIRWeb '05: Call for Participation Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:47:39 -0500 (EST) Call for Participation AIRWeb '05 First International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web 10 May 2005 - Chiba, Japan At the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005) http://airweb.cse.lehigh.edu/ OVERVIEW Search is the single most common application used on the Web. The attraction of hundreds of millions of searches per day provides significant incentive to content providers to do whatever necessary to rank highly in search engine results. The use of techniques that push rankings higher than they belong is often called spamming a search engine (or spamdexing). Such methods typically include textual as well as link-based techniques. Like e-mail spam, search engine spam is a form of adversarial information retrieval; the conflicting goals of accurate results of search providers and high positioning by content providers provides an interesting and real-world environment to study techniques in optimization, obfuscation, and reverse engineering, in addition to the application of information retrieval and classification. The workshop solicited technical papers on any aspect of adversarial information retrieval on the Web. Submissions were reviewed by search experts and accepted papers (listed below) cover a variety of topics, including web spam, blog spam, cloaking, redirection, link optimization for PageRank, automated link spam detection, link bombs, reverse engineering of ranking algorithms, and propaganda. ------------------------------ From: Marina Meila Subject: NIPS 2005 Call for Papers Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:37:33 -0800 (PST) CALL FOR PAPERS: Neural Information Processing Systems - NIPS 2005 December 5-8 Vancouver, BC www.nips.cc Deadline for Paper Submissions: June 3, 2005 Submissions are solicited for the Nineteenth Annual meeting of an interdisciplinary Conference (December 6-8) which brings together researchers interested in all aspects of neural and statistical processing and computation. The Conference will include invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. It is single track and highly selective. Preceeding the main Conference will be one day of Tutorials (December 5), and following it will be two days of Workshops at Whistler/Blackcomb ski resort (December 9-10). For full information please refer to the NIPS website www.nips.cc ------------------------------ From: DaeEun Kim Subject: CFP for Workshop on Autonomous Robots Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 18:37:30 +0200 Call for Papers: Workshop on Memory and Learning Mechanisms in Autonomous Robots co-located with ECAL 2005 (European Conf. on Artificial Life) http://www.ecal2005.org/workshops.html The aim of this workshop is to explore how to process memory for complex robotic tasks and how to represent/encode plasticity in robot controllers. The study of memory structure and the development of new learning algorithms to model neuronal plasticity are a central challenge for adaptive behaviour research. The workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in these topics to discuss new ideas and alternative solutions which might open up yet unexplored research lines. We encourage the submission of work which propose provocative new ideas, discuss controversial aspects on memory and learning mechanisms for autonomous adaptive agents. Important Dates Submission deadline: 15th May, 2005 Notification date: 15th June, 2005 Final date for camera-ready copies: 22nd, June, 2005 ------------------------------ From: Aris Xanthos Subject: Final CFP - extended deadline: PMHLA Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 00:46:14 +0200 *** Final Call for Papers *** *** Extended Deadline: 11 April *** Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition Workshop at ACL 2005 29-30 June 2005 at University of Michigan Ann Arbor http://www.colag.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/psychocomp Workshop Topic The workshop, which is a follow-up to the successful workshop held at COLING in 2004, will be devoted to psychologically motivated computational models of language acquisition -- models that are compatible with, or motivated by research in psycholinguistics, developmental psychology with particular emphasis on the acquisition of syntax, though work on the acquisition of morphology, phonology and other levels of linguistic description is also welcome. The workshop will be taking place at the same time as CoNLL-2005 (http://cnts.uia.ac.be/conll/cfp.html) and we expect there to be sufficient interest for a plenary session of papers that are relevant to both audiences. There will also be a plenary session for Mark Steedman's invited talk. Important Dates Deadline for main session paper submission: April 11, 2005 Notification of acceptance: May 5, 2005 Deadline for camera-ready papers: May 17, 2005 Conference: June 29-30, 2005 ------------------------------ From: Gerhard Widmer Subject: [Mlnet] Open University Position in Austria Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:20:07 +0200 OPEN POSITION AT THE JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ, AUSTRIA: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (LECTURER) AT THE POST-DOCTORAL LEVEL The newly founded DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTATIONAL PERCEPTION at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, headed by Prof. Gerhard Widmer, has an open position for a Full-time Assistant Professor ("Universitätsassistent") at the post-doctoral level, with a contract limited to 4-6 years. REQUIREMENTS: - a doctorate in computer science or a related field - research experience in one or several of the following areas: Artificial/Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Sensor Data Interpretation and Signal Analysis, Intelligent Audio/Music/Video/Image Processing, Intelligente Data Analysis, Time Series Processing, Pattern Recognition. The candidate is expected to build up his/her own research program, to be active in the acquisition of research funding, and to contribute to the department's teaching and administration. LANGUAGE: Fluency in German is not a prerequisite, though a passive command of the German language would be beneficial. Excellent English is required. Teaching can be done in English for the first one or two years. MORE INFORMATION: Prof. Gerhard Widmer Tel.: +43 - 732 - 2468 1510 e-mail: gerhard.widmer@jku.at WWW: www.oefai.at/~gerhard For some of our recent research in the area of machine learning and intelligent music processing see http://www.oefai.at/~gerhard or http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/oefai/ml/ Women are particularly encouraged to apply and will be given priority in case of equal qualification. The OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT (in German) can be found at http://www.cp.jku.at/stellenausschreibung.html . DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: October 27, 2004 Please send your application with relevant documents (CV, picture, publications list / sample publications, copies of academic documents) to: Personalabteilung der Zentralen Dienste der Universität Linz A-4040 Linz/Auhof AUSTRIA and make sure to refer to "Anzeigennummer 1148" (ID of this announcement) in your cover letter. The application can be written in English, of course. ------------------------------ From: Paolo Frasconi Subject: Two PhD positions on machine learning for bioinformatics Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:17:04 +0200 Two 3 years Ph.D. fellowships supported by the European Commission are available starting on January 2006 with the Machine learning and Neural Networks group at the Universit degli Studi di Firenze under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Frasconi. Applications should include your CV, a one-page statement of your research interests and motivations for pursuing Ph.D. studies, and contact information (including email addresses) for at least two references. Please send your application preferably by email to bioptrain AT dsi DOT unifi DOT it (using PDF or plain text for your attachments) of by surface mail to: Prof. Paolo Frasconi Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Universit=E0 di Firenze Via di Santa Marta 3 50139 Firenze, Italy The deadline for applications is August 1st 2005. Further details about BIOPTRAIN on http://bioptrain.org ------------------------------ From: William Noble Subject: Postdoctoral positions Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:42:21 -0800 Three Postdoctoral Positions in Machine Learning and Computational Biology Department of Genome Sciences University of Washington, Seattle Three postdoctoral research fellowships are available in the research group of William Stafford Noble in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. in computer science or a biological science, and will have considerable research experience in machine learning or computational biology. The group's research focuses on the development of machine learning techniques for application to molecular biology and genetics. Research areas include the prediction of gene function from heterogeneous data, prediction of protein-protein interactions, prediction of gene structures from genomic DNA, recognition of remote evolutionary relationships among proteins, and the discovery and analysis of transcriptional elements in non-coding DNA. More information is available at noble.gs.washington.edu. Start dates are flexible. The Department of Genome Sciences was founded in September 2001 as the fusion of the Departments of Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology. Research in the department addresses questions in biology and medicine by developing and applying genetic, genomic and computational approaches that take advantage of genomic information. Eight faculty are members of the National Academy of Sciences, including 2001 Nobel Prize winner Dr. Lee Hartwell. The department welcomed a new chair, Dr. Bob Waterston, in January 2003. In April 2006, the department will move to a new building. The University of Washington is building a culturally diverse research community and strongly encourages applications from female and minority candidates. The University of Washington is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Please send a CV, summary of scientific interests, and names of at least three references to Linda Loveless (llov@u.washington.edu). ------------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 17, No. 2 ************************************