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Call for papers on the following topics is open till May 15, 2000.
Below are
submission guidelines,
attendance information,
important dates and
organization details.
The growing importance of electronic media for storing and exchanging text documents has led to a growing interest in tools and approaches for dealing with unstructured or semi-structured information included in the text documents. In addition to well-organized and maintained text databases, one of the important sources of textual information is the World Wide Web which is expected to continue to grow in the number of users and amount of information available.
Methods developed for mining structured and unstructured data sets as well as text learning and natural language processing techniques are essential for analysis of textual data. While many approaches to text processing are based on statistics and thus only weakly dependent on the language the data is written in, those that involve deeper linguistic processing are typically aimed at English texts. Furthermore, an important step towards exploiting information from texts is automated information extraction from large document sets and building more or less domain specific knowledge bases.
This leads to interesting and important questions of scalability
of developed approaches and their applicability to a variety
of document formats and languages.
The objective of this workshop is to enable presentation and exchange of ideas on various aspects of Text Mining. Our desire is to facilitate communication among researchers and practitioners from related and complementary research areas, who are working on similar problems but with possibly different focus and problem solving approaches. More precisely, we invite papers from the four areas:
Invited talk by Ronen Feldman: "Text Mining: Opportunities and Challenges"
The information age has made it easy to receive and store large amounts of data. The proliferation of documents available - on the Web, in corporate intranets, on news wires and elsewhere - is overwhelming. However, while the amount of data available to us is forever increasing, our ability to absorb and process this information has remained constant. Search engines only exacerbate the problem by making more and more documents available in a matter of a few keystrokes; so-called "push" technology makes the problem even worse by constantly reminding us that we are failing to follow critical news, events, and trends. We experience information overload, and miss important patterns even as they unfold before us.
Text Mining is a new and exciting area of research that tackles this problem through techniques borrowed from data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, natural-language understanding, case-based reasoning, statistics, and knowledge management to help people gain rapid insight into large quantities of semi-structured or unstructured text. Typically, it involves preprocessing a document collection (e.g., through text categorization or term extraction), storing , indexing and analyzing the intermediate representations (through distribution analysis, document clustering, trend analysis, and association rule discovery), and presenting the results graphically.
In my talk I will present some of the new challenges facing the text mining community, with particular focus on the representation of documents and the ability to provide better insights into document collections. I will also try to provide a consumer perspective into text mining while reviewing the business opportunities that currently exist in this area.
Invited talk by David Lewis: "ATTICS: A Toolkit for Text Classification and Text Mining"
ATTICS is an extensible text classification system recently implemented
in C++ at AT&T Labs and available for research purposes. In spirit it
is a hybrid between text retrieval systems such as SMART and machine
learning toolkits such as MLC++. The design, data model, and emphasis
on online classifier application are unusual for either type of software.
While ATTICS is primarily intended for online text classification,
its flexible architecture and support for both textual and non-textual
data make it applicable to many text mining tasks. I will discuss
how ATTICS can be used for text mining, and when it is or isn't a better
choice than other tools.
Submissions should be sent by May 15, 2000, in the electronic form as a PDF or PostScript file to Dunja.Mladenic@cs.cmu.edu, Subject: KDD-2000 workshop submission paper.
Each submission should indicate which of the four areas listed above it best fits into (TM, IR, NLP, IE). The length and formatting of the submissions should follow the KDD-2000 recommendations for submissions (max. 20 pages, single column, a line spacing 1.5, no smaller than 12-point font, at least 1 inch margin on each side) or for camera ready (max. 12 pages, two columns, etc. - see the templates).
Submitted papers will be reviewed by referees from the Program Committee.
Accepted papers will be published in the working notes
provided by ACM.
The authors will be notified about the acceptance or rejection of their
papers by
June 15, 2000. Camera-ready versions of the papers are due July 11, 2000.
Attendance is not limited to the paper authors. We strongly encourage interested researchers from related areas to attend the workshop. One of the objectives of the workshop is to promote the interaction among reseachers and the development of the text mining area of research.
| Submission Deadline: | May 15, 2000 |
| Acceptance Notification: | June 15, 2000 |
| Workshop registration: | July 14, 2000 |
| Camera-ready Copies: | July 11, 2000 |
| Workshop date: | August 20, 2000 |
Marko Grobelnik
J.Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Marko.Grobelnik@ijs.si
Dunja Mladenic
J.Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia and
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science,
Pittsburgh, USA, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Dunja.Mladenic@cs.cmu.edu
Natasa
Milic-Frayling
Microsoft Research Ltd, St. George House, 1 Guildhall Street
Cambridge, CB2 3NH, United Kingdom
natasamf@microsoft.com
Program Committee
This Workshop is partially supported by the
European FP5 project
"Data Mining and Decision Support for Business Competitiveness: A European
Virtual Enterprise
(Sol-Eu-Net)".