Connectionists: CfP: NIPS 2009 Workshop on Learning with Orderings

[Jonathan Huang]

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  LEARNING WITH ORDERINGS

  workshop at NIPS'09
  Saturday, December 12, Whistler, B.C.
  http://www.select.cs.cmu.edu/meetings/nips09perm/

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The scope of the workshop is everything in ML related to
permutations, in particular:

Ranking and search
Preference elicitation
Social choice and voting theory
Tracking and identity management
Natural language processing
Structure learning for Bayesian networks
Multi-way classification and other categorization tasks
Graph matching


Partner workshop:

"Advances in Ranking"
http://web.mit.edu/shivani/www/Ranking-NIPS-09/


Organizers:

Tiberio Caetano, NICTA
Carlos Guestrin, CMU
Jonathan Huang, CMU
Guy Lebanon, Georgia Tech
Risi Kondor, Caltech
Marina Meila, UW


Confirmed speakers:

Persi Diaconis, Stanford
Manfred Warmuth, UCSC
Xiaoye Jiang, Stanford
Regina Barzilay, MIT
Risi Kondor, Caltech
Dan Rockmore, Dartmouth College
Brendan Murphy, University College Dublin


Call for abstracts:

The workshop will include a combined poster/demo session.
We invite participants to submit 2-page extended abstracts
(NIPS format) to LearningWithOrderings at gmail.com
describing the technical content of proposed posters and
computer demos. The submission deadline is November 9.
The review process will be coordinated with the "Advances
in Ranking" workshop. Please do not submit the same work
to both workshops.