Special Issue on Variable and Feature Selection available!

[David 'Pablo' Cohn]

The Journal of Machine Learning Research is very pleased to announce
publication of a Special Issue on Variable and Feature Selection. This
issue, organized and edited by Isabelle Guyon and Andre Elisseeff, contains
14 papers, including an introduction to the field by the guest editors.

In addition to the papers, the many of the authors have made available the
data sets and software used in their research. Please visit
http://www.jmlr.org for details.
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An Introduction to Variable and Feature Selection
Isabelle Guyon, Andr=E9 Elisseeff; JMLR 3(Mar):1157-1182, 2003.

Distributional Word Clusters vs. Words for Text Categorization
Ron Bekkerman, Ran El-Yaniv, Naftali Tishby, and Yoad Winter; JMLR
3(Mar):1183-1208, 2003.

Extensions to Metric-Based Model Selection
Yoshua Bengio, Nicolas Chapados; JMLR 3(Mar):1209-1227, 2003.

Dimensionality Reduction via Sparse Support Vector Machines
Jinbo Bi, Kristin Bennett, Mark Embrechts, Curt Breneman, Minghu Song; JMLR
3(Mar):1229-1243, 2003.

Benefitting from the Variables that Variable Selection Discards
Rich Caruana, Virginia R. de Sa; JMLR 3(Mar):1245-1264, 2003.

A Divisive Information-Theoretic Feature Clustering Algorithm for Text
Classification
Inderjit S. Dhillon, Subramanyam Mallela, Rahul Kumar; JMLR
3(Mar):1265-1287, 2003.

An Extensive Empirical Study of Feature Selection Metrics for Text
Classification
George Forman; JMLR 3(Mar):1289-1305, 2003.

Sufficient Dimensionality Reduction
Amir Globerson, Naftali Tishby; JMLR 3(Mar):1307-1331, 2003.

Grafting: Fast, Incremental Feature Selection by Gradient Descent in
Function Space
Simon Perkins, Kevin Lacker, James Theiler; JMLR 3(Mar):1333-1356, 2003.

Variable Selection Using SVM-based Criteria
Alain Rakotomamonjy; JMLR 3(Mar):1357-1370, 2003.

Overfitting in Making Comparisons Between Variable Selection Methods
Juha Reunanen; JMLR 3(Mar):1371-1382, 2003.

MLPs (Mono-Layer Polynomials and Multi-Layer Perceptrons) for Nonlinear
Modeling
Isabelle Rivals, L=E9on Personnaz; JMLR 3(Mar):1383-1398, 2003.

Ranking a Random Feature for Variable and Feature Selection
Herv=E9 Stoppiglia, G=E9rard Dreyfus, R=E9mi Dubois, Yacine Oussar; JMLR
3(Mar):1399-1414, 2003.

Feature Extraction by Non-Parametric Mutual Information Maximization
Kari Torkkola; JMLR 3(Mar):1415-1438, 2003.

Use of the Zero-Norm with Linear Models and Kernel Methods
Jason Weston, Andr=E9 Elisseeff, Bernhard Sch=F6lkopf, Mike Tipping; JMLR
3(Mar):1439-1461, 2003.

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These, and all previous papers are available electronically at
http://www.jmlr.org/ in PostScript and PDF formats. Many are also available
in HTML. The papers of Volume 1 and 2 are also available in hardcopy from
the MIT Press; please see http://mitpress.mit.edu/JMLR for details.