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 [log in to unmask] University of Minnesota, USA Ah-Hwee Tan http://textmining.krdl.org.sg/people/ahhwee [log in to unmask] Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Eui-Hong (Sam) Han http://www.cs.umn.edu/~han [log in to unmask] 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 [log in to unmask]