Conference
On Learning Theory (COLT 03) and Workshop on Kernel Machines
Washington,
D.C.
August
24 - 27, 2003
http://learningtheory.org/colt2003
and http://www.kernel-machines.org
The
Sixteenth Annual COLT (Conference on Learning Theory, formerly Conference
on Computational Learning Theory) and the Seventh Kernel Workshop will
be held jointly with ICML
and KDD in Washington,
D.C. In addition there will be tutorials and invited papers in two target
areas (Game Theory and Natural Language processing) and a later submission
deadline for clearly stated one-page open problems.
The
Kernel Workshop has traditionally been held at NIPS; in 2003, it will constitute
one day at COLT.Its papers will
go through the regular COLT reviewing process (with a dedicated kernel
area chair), and will be published in the COLT proceedings.
We
invite submissions of rigorous theoretical and experimental papers on all
aspects of learning theory and empirical inference. Papers must be clear
and mathematically sound. We particularly look for creative papers that
introduce crisp and well-motivated new models and, if applicable, relate
them to existing theoretical work.We
welcome experimental and algorithmic papers provided they are relevant
to the focus of the conference, e.g. by providing theoretically motivated
comparisons, or algorithmic implementations of approaches that previously
have been analyzed only theoretically.All
papers and open problems will appear in the proceedings, to be published
in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html).
The proceedings will appear both as a printed book and in a full-text electronic
version, thus we require electronic submissions.
To
help us direct your paper, the authors are asked provide a keyword list
at the beginning of their paper. Some of the following areas might be suitable
keywords:
kernel
methods, learning in games, mechanism design, natural language processing,
boosting, ensemble learning, optimization, on-line learning, competitive
analysis,
reinforcement learning, planning, control, statistical learning theory,
PAC learning, regularization theory, transduction, unsupervised and semi-supervised
learning, learning with queries, MDL, graphical models and Bayesian methods,
inductive and grammatical inference, learning in the limit.
All
papers will receive the same amount of space in the proceedings. However
for some of the more technical contributions there might only be time for
a short presentation or poster. Papers that have previously appeared in
journals or at other conferences, or that are being submitted to other
conferences are not appropriate for COLT.
Paper
format:
Submissions should include the title, authors' names, postal and email
addresses, and a 200-word summary of the paper suitable for the conference
program. They should be no longer than 13 pages using the Springer LNCS
style file (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Your paper should include a clear definition of the theoretical model used
and a clear description of the results, as well as a discussion of their
significance, including comparison to other work.Submit
papers electronically in pdf or ps format (for details see conference website).
Program
chairs:
Bernhard
Schöelkopf
(Max Planck Institute Tübingen)
and Manfred Warmuth (U.C. Santa
Cruz), Conference and local arrangements chair: Carl
Smith (U. of Maryland)
Program
committee:
Kristin Bennett (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.), Avrim Blum (Carnegie Mellon
U.), Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi (U. of Milan), Nello Cristianini (UC Davis), Yoav
Freund (Banter Inc.), Michael Kearns (U. of Pennsylvania), Efim Kinber
(Sacred Heart U.), Vladimir Koltchinskii (UNM Albuquerque), Yishay Mansour
(Tel Aviv U.), Rob Schapire (Princeton U.)
Student
travel:
We anticipate that some funds will be available to partially support travel
by student authors. Eligible authors who wish to apply for travel support
should indicate this on their submission's title page.
Mark
Fulk Award:
This award is for the best paper authored or coauthored by a student. Eligible
authors who wish to be considered for this prize should indicate this on
their submission's title page.
Dates:
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Electronic
submission of extended abstracts
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March
23, 2003
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Electronic
submission of one-page open problems
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April
27, 2003
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Notification
of acceptance or rejection
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May
25, 2003
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Final
submission of all papers (incl. LaTex source files)
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June
10, 2003
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Conference
registration
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See
website
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Conference
dates
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August
24-27, 2003
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