IJCAI 99 Workshop: Machine Learning for Information Filtering

Workshop location: Norra Latin, room 361 (see map)

 8:30 Welcome

 8:40 Invited talk 
      Adaptive Web Sites: case study & general lessons
      Oren Etzioni

 9:40 Poster Spotlights (5 min. per poster):

      Automatically Labeling Web Pages Based on Normal User Actions 
      Jeremy Goecks and Jude Shavlik

      A Text Classifier Based on Linguistic Processing 
      Roberto Basili, Alessandro Moschitti, and Maria Teresa Pazienza

      An Unsupervised Clustering Tool for Unstructured Data 
      Daniel Boley, Vivian Borst, and Maria Gini

      Improvement of Combination Information Filtering Method Based 
      on Reliabilities 
      Yusuke Ariyoshi

      On-line Learning of User Preferences in Recommender Systems
      Joaquin Delgado and Naohiro Ishii 

10:05 Break and poster presentation

10:30 Paper Presentations (20 min. per paper):

      Error-Correcting Output Coding for Text Classification
      Adam Berger

      Information Filtering in Changing Domains
      Carsten Lanquillon

      Combining Shallow Text Processing and Machine Learning in 
      Real World Applications
      Guenther Neumann and Sven Schmeier

      Using Maximum Entropy for Text Classification
      Kamal Nigam, John Lafferty, and Andrew McCallum

      A Statistical Clustering Method to Provide a Semantic Indexing 
      of Texts
      Thierry Poibeau

12:10 Discussion

12:30 Lunch

13:50 Invited talk 
      Information Filtering on the Web
      Jan Pedersen

14:50 Paper Presentations (20 min. per paper):

      Collaborative Filtering by Personality Diagnosis: A Hybrid Memory-
      and Model-Based Approach
      David Pennock and Eric Horvitz

      Combining Content and Collaborative Filtering in Text Filtering
      Ian Soboroff and Charles Nicholas

15:30 Break and poster presentation

16:00 Paper Presentations (20 min. per paper):

      Recommending Papers by Mining the Web 
      Chumki Basu and Haym Hirsh

      EmailValet: Learning Email Preferences for Wireless Platforms
      Sofus Macskassy, Aynur Dayanik, and Haym Hirsh

16:40 Discussion and Wrap-up

Poster presentation continues