LINGUIST List 14.3559

Mon Dec 22 2003

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  • Xindong Wu, 10th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • info, Congress on Language Diversity, Sustainability and Peace

    Message 1: 10th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

     Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:11:42 -0500 (EST)
    From: Xindong Wu <xwuemba.uvm.edu>
    Subject: 10th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining


    CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS

    KDD-2004 10th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

    22-Aug-2004 - 25-Aug-2004 Seattle, Washington, USA

    http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2004 or http://www.kdd2004.com

    IMPORTANT DATES:

    Submission Deadlines:

    Electronic Abstract Submission: Feb. 20, 2004 *at noon PST* Electronic Paper Submission: Feb. 27, 2004 *at noon PST*

    Submission Format: Camera-Ready (no more than 10 pages), electronic submissions *in PDF format only*

    Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 21, 2004 Camera-ready papers due: June 4, 2004

    During the past years, the ACM SIGKDD conference has established itself as the premier international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining with an attendance of 600-900 people. To continue with this tradition, the tenth ACM SIGKDD conference will provide a forum for researchers from academia, industry, and government, developers, practitioners, and the data mining user community to share their research and experience. The SIGKDD conference will feature keynote presentations, oral paper presentations, poster presentations, workshops, tutorials, and panels, as well as the KDD Cup competition. Papers on all aspects of knowledge discovery and data mining are solicited.

    Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

    - Applications of data mining (biomedical, e-commerce, defense) - Data and result visualization - Data mining and data warehousing - Data mining for community generation, social network analysis, and graph-structured data - Foundations of data mining - KDD framework and process - Mining data streams - Mining high-dimensional data - Mining text and semi-structured data - Multi-media data mining - Novel data mining algorithms - Spatial and temporal data mining - Security and privacy issues - Interactive and online data mining - Pre-processing and post-processing for data mining - Robust and scalable statistical methods

    Abstracts and full papers must be submitted electronically at the conference Web site (see URL above). Abstracts must be submitted on or before February 20, 2004, 12 noon PST (Pacific Standard Time). An abstract may not contain more than 250 words. No paper will be considered without having the abstract submitted on time. Full papers must be submitted on or before February 27, 2004, at 12 noon PST. This is a FIRM deadline. Papers must be no more than 10 pages in length, inclusive of all figures, tables, references and appendices. Papers should be submitted in ACM proceedings format (two columns, 9pt font, approx. 1in margins). Templates are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Authors are solely responsible for ensuring that their submissions display and print properly.

    All papers will be judged based on their technical merits, originality, relevance to KDD, and presentation clarity. Papers should describe original work that has not been published before, is not under review elsewhere, and may not be submitted elsewhere during KDD-2004's review period (specialized workshops with a limited audience excluded).

    A separate call is being issued for industrial/government track papers; see the conference Web site at the URL above. Reviewers can assign research track submissions to the industrial/government track and vice-versa, if they feel this to be more appropriate. Calls for workshop, tutorial and panel proposals can also be found at the conference Web site.

    The KDD-2004 Best Paper awards recognize the best paper in two categories: fundamental research and applications/applied research. Fundamental research papers are judged by the significance and originality of their contribution. Applications/applied research papers are judged by the practical impact and current or potential usefulness of the work. In both cases, the clarity and quality of presentation are also considered.

    KDD-2004 will also award scholarships to selected students to help defray the cost of participating in the conference. Details will appear on the conference Web site.

    ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

    - General Chair: Ronny Kohavi (Amazon.com, USA) - Program co-Chairs: Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University, USA) and William DuMouchel (AT&T Labs, USA) - Industrial/Government Track Co-Chairs: John Elder (Elder Research, USA) and Bharat Rao (Siemens Research, USA) - Panels Chair: Raghu Ramakrishnan (University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA) - Tutorials Chair: Mihael Ankerst (Boeing, USA) - Workshops Chair: Myra Spiliopoulou (Otto-von-Guericke Universitaet Magdeberg, Germany) - Best Paper Awards Chair: Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft Research, USA) - Student Awards Chair: David Madigan (Rutgers University, USA) - Proceedings Chair: Joydeep Ghosh (University of Texas at Austin, USA) - Publicity Chair and Webmaster: Gabor Melli (PredictionWorks, USA) - Local Publicity Chair: Zhaohui Tang (Microsoft Research, USA) - Treasurer: Rajesh Parekh (Blue Martini Software, USA) - Local Arrangements Chair: Ying Li (Microsoft Research, USA) - Sponsorship Chairs: Kamal Ali (Yahoo!, USA) and Tom Breur (ING Card) - Exhibits chair: Llew Mason (Blue Martini Software, USA) - Registration Chair: Marina Meila (University of Washington, USA) - SIGKDD Chair: Won Kim (Cyber Database Solutions, USA)

    Message 2: Congress on Language Diversity, Sustainability and Peace

     Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 05:01:36 -0500 (EST)
    From: info <infolinguapax.org>
    Subject: Congress on Language Diversity, Sustainability and Peace


    Congress on Language Diversity, Sustainability and Peace

    Date: 20-May-2004 - 23-May-2004 Location: Barcelona, Spain Contact: Josep Cru Contact Email: infolinguapax.org Meeting URL: http://www.linguapax.org

    Linguistic Sub-field: Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2004

    Meeting Description:

    Congress on Language Diversity, Sustainability and Peace

    The need to preserve the languages of the world and counter the processes of language shift that are taking place worldwide has become a major concern shared by researchers, scholars and leaders of many language communities.

    This Dialogue wants to bring together all persons interested in the maintenance of linguistic diversity in order to generate fruitful discussions that may be used to hold back the current processes of cultural homogenization of the world.

    The congress will be held in Barcelona between May 20 and 23 in the framework of the Universal Forum of Cultures - Barcelona 2004. Working sessions will be of two types. On the one hand, the keynote communications, that will give a general overview on the three main axes of the congress (language diversity, sustainability and peace) and the possible interrelations among them, taking into account the new cultural, social, political and economic factors stemming from an increasing globalization process. On the other hand, the five parallel workshops that will be held in the afternoon sessions will have a more specific approach to linguistic diversity and its relation to language policy and planning. Working languages will be Catalan, English, French and Spanish.

    CALL FOR PAPERS

    Participants willing to present a communication in the framework of a specific workshop are invited to submit an abstract of their paper before March 1st 2004 through electronic mail at infolinguapax.org

    - All papers will be reviewed by the Dialogue�Euro(tm)s Organising Committee and by the corresponding workshop coordinator. The results of the selection process will be made public on March 15th. - Criteria for selection are appropriateness to the central issue of the workshop, originality, innovativeness and diversity in terms of cultural or linguistic origin. - Only two communications will be selected for each worskhop. The time allocated to each presentation is limited to 30 minutes, followed by a 15 minutes debate. - Speakers selected through the call for papers process will have to be registered as regular participants. - Abstracts will be saved as Word, RTF or Word Perfect documents. They shall not exceed 1000 words or 6000 characters including spaces and must be drafted in any of the working languages of the congress (Catalan, English, French, Spanish). The intended workshop must clearly be indicated on the top of the front page. Authors must indicate their current position and join a short paragraph summarizing their background.

    REGISTRATION

    Before April 15: 185 EURO >From April 15 to May 16: 210 EURO >From May 17: 235 EURO

    The fee includes: congress registration and documentation, entry to the Forum site, coffee breaks and local transportation. Online registration to this Dialogue will soon be available through the Forum website (http://www.barcelona2004.org) as well as travel and accommodation services for those who shall need it.