machine learning information filtering workshop ijcai99 call participation workshop machine learning information filtering international joint conference artificial intelligence ijcai 99 august 1st 1998 stockholm sweden http wwwai cs unidortmund de events ijcai99mlif enormous growth online information electronic commerce brought comparable growth research methods automatically organizing personalizing information information filtering task simultaneously emerged active research topic several disciplines including information retrieval human computer interaction natural language processing machine learning information filtering task manifests many theoretically challenging commercially important applications electronic commerce marketing search engines information push applications browsing assistants adaptive web sites goal workshop bring together researchers working information filtering many subfields ai emphasizing machine learning techniques algorithms many subfields share techniques include text classification methods probabilistic methods support vector machines first order methods use unlabeled data etc collaborative filtering methods use complex user object profiles e g citation structure novel clustering models methods etc methods learning user preferences learning orderings etc combinations approaches multistrategy learning representational issues knowledge representation nlp techniques representing interest representing information objects feature selection term weighting data transformation latent semantic indexing etc clustering methods similarity measures mixture models etc scalability issues formal models theory handling different media text images sound etc evaluation techniques besides topics workshop covers theoretical methodological issues concerning information filtering submissions describing innovative applications information filtering also encouraged bringing together industrial representatives researchers workshop show problems industry present new research issues identify ways research results may put widespread practice industrial setting timetable april 6 1999 submission deadline may 3 1999 notification acceptance may 24 1999 camera ready copy due august 1 1999 workshop organization workshop one full day including invited talks paper presentations poster presentations numerous opportunities discussion depending submissions joint sessions workshop text mining foundations techniques applications topics common interest participation workshop limited according ijcai regulations workshop participants register ijcai conference working notes workshop published online submission procedure interested making presentation submit full paper electronically either postscript pdf joachims ls8 cs unidortmund de first page submitted papers include title author names affiliations brief abstract also name designated contact person postal address electronic mail address telephone fax number submissions exceed 8 pages according ijcai formatting instructions printable 8 5 x 11 a4 paper interested participating workshop submitting paper submit onepage abstract research interests learning methods information filtering organizing committee thorsten joachims chair andrew mccallum universitaet dortmund research fb informatik ls8 4616 henry street baroper str 301 pittsburgh pa 15213 44221 dortmund germany phone 412 6839132 phone 49 231 755 5102 fax 412 6834175 fax 49 231 755 5105 email mccallum justresearch com joachims ls8 cs unidortmund de mehran sahami lyle ungar epiphany inc university pennsylvania 2300 geng road dept comp info sci palo alto ca 94303 200 33rd st phone 650 4962399 philadelphia pa 191046389 fax 650 4962431 phone 215 8987449 email sahami epiphany com fax 215 8980587 email ungar cis upenn edu information http wwwai cs unidortmund de events ijcai99mlif