TOC: * Call for Paper * CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS * CALL FOR PAPERS - PAKDD 2002 Workshop on Text Mining =================================================================== Call for Paper The Sixth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-02) May 6-8, 2002 Taipei, Taiwan The Sixth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-02) will provide an international forum for the sharing of original research results and practical development experiences among researchers and application developers from different KDD related areas such as data mining, data warehousing, machine learning, databases, statistics, knowledge acquisition and discovery, data visualization, and knowledge-based systems. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Data and Knowledge Representation * Expanding the Autonomy of Machine Discovers * Scientific Discovery * Machine Learning Methods * Statistical Methods * Inductive Logic Programming * Deduction, Induction and Abduction * Multi-criteria Evaluation and Data Mining Metrics * Models and Framework of New Data Mining Capabilities * Performance Evaluation of Mining Algorithms * Data and Dimensionality Reduction * Preprocessing and Postprocessing * Interestingness Checking of Data and Rules * Management and Refinement for the Discovered Knowledge * Data and Knowledge Visualization * On Line Analytical Processing * KDD Process and Human Interaction * Rough Sets in Data Mining * Neural Networks, Probabilistic Reasoning * Noise Handling and Uncertainty Management * Hybrid Symbolic/Connectionist KDD Systems * Multi-Database Mining * Data Mining in Advanced Databases (OODB, Spatial DB, Multimedia DB) * Integration of Data Warehousing, OLAP and Data Mining * Combining Data Mining with Database Querying * Parallel and Distributed Data Mining * Data Mining in the WWW * Multi-agent, Multi-task KDD Systems * Data Mining from Unstructured and Multimedia Data * Unification of Data Mining with Intelligent Information Retrieval * Security and Privacy Issues * Successful/Innovative KDD Applications in Science, Engineering, Medicine, Business, Education, Government, and Industry Honorary Chairs: David C. L. Liu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Ben Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Conference Chairs: Arbee L. P. Chen, Nat. Dong Hwa Univ./Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan Jiawei Han, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Chair/Co-Chair: Ming-Syan Chen (Chair), National Taiwan University, Taiwan Philip S. Yu, (Co-Chair) IBM TJ. Watson Research Ctr., USA. Bing Liu, (Co-Chair) National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore Workshop Chair: Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA Email: hliu@asu.edu Tutorial Chair: Yao-Nan Lien, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Email: lien@cherry.cs.nccu.edu.tw Local Arrangement Chair: Chun-Nan Hsu, Academic Sinica, Taiwan Industrial Chairs: Chia-Hui Chang, National Central University, Taiwan Shin-Mu Tseng, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan PAKDD Steering Committee: Hongjun Lu, Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Hong Kong (Chair) Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan (Co-Chair) David W. Cheung, The University Hong Kong, Hong Kong Masaru Kitsuregawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan Rao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA Takao Terano, University of Tsukuba, Japan Graham Williams, CSIRO, Australia Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan Lizhu Zhou, Tsinghua University, China Paper Submission: The paper should consist of a cover page with title, authors' names, postal and e-mail addresses, an approximately 200 word summary, up to 5 keywords and a body not longer than 12 pages with a single space. (Formatting information for author is available from the Springer-Verlag Web site at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.) Please upload a softcopy of the paper to http://arbor.ee.ntu.edu.tw/pakdd02/ (in PostScript or PDF). Only when on-line submissions are not possible, should five copies of the paper be sent to the program chair at the following address: Professor Ming-Syan Chen Program Chair, PAKDD 2002 Department of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Email: mschen@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw Tel: +886-2-23635251 ext 523 Fax: +886-2-23671597 Workshop and tutorial proposals should be emailed to the corresponding chairs before the due date. Important Dates: Paper submission due: November 5, 2001 Workshop proposal and tutorial proposal due: November 5, 2001 Author notification: January 15, 2002 Camera ready copy due: February 5, 2002 All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance to KDD, originality, significance, and clarity. Accepted papers are expected to be published in the conference proceedings by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. =================================================================== CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS http://www.public.asu.edu/~huanliu/pakdd-wk02.html 6th Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (PAKDD-2002) Taipei, Taiwan, May 6 - 8, 2002 PAKDD-2002 Conference Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program of the Sixth Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (PAKDD-2002). Workshops will be held at the beginning of the conference, on May 6, 2002. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet and discuss issues with a selected focus with an informal setting for active exchange among researchers, developers and users on topics of interest. Submissions are welcome in all areas of Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, both theoretical and applied, for PAKDD-2002. Suggested topics for workshops include, but are not limited to, the following: o Scientific Discovery o Data & Knowledge Representation o Multi-criteria; Evaluation & Data Mining Metrics o Data Mining in E-Business o Text Mining o Web Mining o Metadata, Semantic Web o XML for Data Mining o Bioinformatics; Data Mining o Data & Dimensionality Reduction o Preprocessing & Postprocessing Techniques o Management & Refinement for the Discovered Knowledge o Performance Evaluation of Data Mining Algorithms o Security and Privacy Issues in Data Mining To encourage interaction and exchange of ideas, the workshops will be kept small, with 20-35 participants. Attendance is limited to active participants only. The format of the workshop presentations will be determined by the organizers. Organizers are encouraged to leave ample time for general discussion. Workshops will typically be one full day in length, although half day proposals will be considered. Proposal Content Proposals for workshops should be about 2 pages in length, and should contain: i. A description of the workshop. Identify the specific issues on which the workshop will focus. ii. A brief discussion of why the workshop is of particular interest at this time. iii. The names and addresses of the organizing committee; 3 to 4 people knowledgeable in the field. Strong proposals include organizers who bring differing perspectives to the workshop topic. iv. An indication as to whether the workshop should be considered for a half day or one day meeting. We welcome proposals that explore the frontiers of KDD research as well as novel application domains. Submissions that link KDD technology to specific problems in the Pacific Rim are particularly encouraged. Submissions Workshop proposals should be submitted as soon as possible but no later than Nov. 5, 2001. Organizers will be notified of the committee's decision by Nov. 17, 2001. Workshop organizers will be responsible for: o Producing and distributing a call for papers/participation. o Selecting participants. Workshop attendance is by invitation of the organizers.  Selection of attendees will be made by the organizers on the basis of submissions. o Workshop organizers will need to provide PAKDD with a list of the participants by April 15, 2002. o Coordinating the production and distribution of the workshop notes. Scheduling the Workshop Activities PAKDD will provide logistic support, and schedule the meeting dates, times, and places for the workshops. Workshop organizers will be advised of the registration fees, which should be included in their call for participation. PAKDD reserves the right to drop any workshop if there is  insufficient interest. Workshops are not to be used as a vehicle for marketing products. For information about PAKDD-2002, please visit http://arbor.ee.ntu.edu.tw/pakdd02/ Please submit your workshop proposal and address inquiries concerning PAKDD workshops to: Dr. Huan Liu Department of Computer Science & Engineering Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-5406 phone: (480) 727-7349 fax: (480) 965-2751 email: hliu@asu.edu Electronic submissions in ascii, *.pdf, *.ps or *.html formats are preferred. =================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- PAKDD 2002 Workshop on Text Mining Taipei, Taiwan, May 6, 2002 Workshop web site: http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~han/pakdd2002-text-mining.html Conference web site: http://arbor.ee.ntu.edu.tw/pakdd02 Other PAKDD workshops: http://http://www.public.asu.edu/~huanliu/pakdd-wk02.html Aim and Scope ------------- We have seen a tremendous growth in the volume of online text documents available on the Internet, digital libraries, news sources, and company-wide intranet. These documents (with other unstructured data) will become the predominant data type stored online. The growing importance of online documents has led to a great interest in tools and approaches for dealing with unstructured or semi-structured information stored in the text documents. Text mining is an exciting area of research that provides such tools and approaches utilizing techniques from data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, natural-language understanding, statistics, database, and visualization. Text Mining also serves as enabling technologies to the recent development in web intelligence and as complementary technologies for the Semantic Web and OntoWeb initiatives championed by the W3C consortium. A one-day workshop on text mining is being held in conjunction with PAKDD 2002 to bring together researchers from many disciplines and practices to present their current works and results in text mining Topics include but are not limited to: -------------------------------------- - text categorization - document clustering - multi-lingual text mining - theme extraction - visualization - information extraction from text - use of domain knowledge in text mining - text summarization - trend analysis - taxonomy generation for text mining - document modeling/representation Submission of papers -------------------- To submit a paper for consideration, send 4 copies of the manuscript to Dr. Eui-Hong (Sam) Han (see address below). Electronic submissions (postscript or PDF versions printable on 8.5 x 11 paper only) are strongly encouraged. To guarantee consideration, manuscripts must be received by January 20, 2002, and must be no more than 10 pages excluding figures, tables, and references. In the spirit of the workshop, submission of work in progress is encouraged as well. Attendees are required to register either for the conference (then the workshop is free) or for the workshop only (the workshop-only registration fee is set to be US$ 90). The workshop participants will be entitled for coffee break, the luncheon and also the dinner that day. Important Dates --------------- Full paper submission: January 20, 2002 Author notification: February 20, 2002 Camera-ready copy due: March 8, 2002 Workshop: May 6, 2002 Organizers ---------- George Karypis http://www.cs.umn.edu/~karypis karypis@cs.umn.edu University of Minnesota, USA Ah-Hwee Tan http://textmining.krdl.org.sg/people/ahhwee ahhwee@krdl.org.sg Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Eui-Hong (Sam) Han http://www.cs.umn.edu/~han han@cs.umn.edu iXmatch Inc., USA (also with University of Minnesota, USA) Program Committee ----------------- Inderjit Dhillon, University of Texas at Austin Susan Dumais, Microsoft Matthias Kaiser, SAP Boon-Toh Loh, Chinese University of Hong Kong Jianchang Mao, Verity Haesun Park, University of Minnesota Prabhakar Raghavan, Verity Andreas Rauber, Technische Universitat Wien, Austria Zi-Jian Zheng, Blue Martini Software For further information, please contact: ---------------------------------------- Dr. Eui-Hong (Sam) Han iXmatch Inc. Southgate Plaza, Suite 401 5001 West 80th Street Minneapolis, MN 55437-1115 Tel: (952) 842-7500 ext 106 Fax: (952) 842-7501 han@cs.umn.edu