Researchers and students in, or related to, the field of Machine Learning are invited to attend the seventh BENELEARN conference, to be held in Tilburg at Tilburg University on the 21st of October 1997. The conference is hosted by the Tilburg ILK programme (Induction of Linguistic Knowledge) and the Tilburg INFOLAB.
The official language of the conference is English.
Accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of BENELEARN-97, which will be published by Tilburg University and handed out after registration.
09.00 - 09.55 registration/coffee 09.55 - 10.00 opening address by dr. W. Daelemans 10.00 - 11.00 invited tutorial on Reinforcement Learning by Stephan ten Hagen and Ben Kr\"ose (University of Amsterdam) 11.00 - 12.00 invited lecture by Pieter Adriaans (Syllogic) 12.00 - 13.30 lunch in the Tilbury restaurant (on campus) 13.30 - 13.55 Session 1 (plenary) 13.55 - 14.45 Session 2 and 3 (parallel) 14.45 - 15.15 coffee 15.15 - 16.55 Session 4 and 5 (parallel) 16.55 - 17.00 workshop closing 17.00 drinks
SESSION 1. (Room YZ3) METHODOLOGY 13.30 - 13.55: Floor Verdenius / Robert Engels (ATO-DLO, Wageningen / AIFB, Karlsruhe) A Process Model for Developing Applications SESSION 2. (Room YZ3) REINFORCEMENT LEARNING 13.55 - 14.20: Stephan ten Hagen / Ben Kr\"ose (University of Amsterdam) Towards a Reactive Critic 14.20 - 14.45: Fred Wan / Peter Braspenning (Maastricht University) State Identification in Dynamic Goal-State Learning Tasks SESSION 3. (Room YZ4) LAZY LEARNING 13.55 - 14.20: Jakub Zavrel (ILK, Tilburg University) An Empirical Re-Examination of Weighted Voting for k-NN 14.20 - 14.45: Antal van den Bosch, Ton Weijters, Jaap van den Herik / Walter Daelemans (Maastricht University / Tilburg University) When Small Disjuncts Abound, Try Lazy Learning SESSION 4. (Room YZ3) INDUCTIVE LOGIC PROGRAMMING 15.15 - 15.40: Nienke den Haan (University of Amsterdam) Generating Normative Rules with ILP Techniques 15.40 - 16.05: Luc Dehaspe (K.U. Leuven) Maximum Entropy Modeling with Clausal Constraints 16.05 - 16.30: Shan-Hwei Nienhuys-Cheng (Erasmus University of Rotterdam) Data Mining: From Statistics to Inductive Logic Programming 16.30 - 16.55: Luc De Raedt / Hendrik Blockeel (K.U. Leuven) Using Logical Decision Trees for Clustering SESSION 5. (Room YZ4) GALOIS, BAYES & DARWIN 15.15 - 15.40: Patrick Njiwoua / Engelbert Mephu Nguifo (Universite d'Artois, Lens) Forwarding the Choice of Bias. LEGAL-F: Using Feature Selection to Reduce the Complexity of LEGAL 15.40 - 16.05: J. J. Sarbo / J. I. Farkas (University of Nijmegen / J.A.T.E, Hungary) A data Representation for Abstract Reasoning 16.05 - 16.30: Guy Mineau / Francois Gourdeau (Universite Laval, Quebec) A Genetic Algorithm for Inducing a Model of Attribute Value Prediction in Dynamic Systems 16.30 - 16.55: Petri Kontkanen, Petri Myllym\"aki, Tomi Silander, Henry Tirri / Peter Gr\"unwald (CoSCo, Helsinki / CWI, Amsterdam) Bayesian and Information-Theoretic Predictive Distributions for Bayesian Networks
Walter Daelemans | Tilburg University (chair) |
Jan C. Bioch | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
Luc De Raedt | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
Peter Flach | Tilburg University |
Bernhard Manderick | Free University Brussels |
Maarten van Someren | University of Amsterdam |
Floor Verdenius | ATO-DLO, Wageningen |
Ton Weijters | University of Limburg |
Participants are kindly requested to send via email the registration form included below, to Walter Daelemans (walter@kub.nl).
Participants are requested to pay the registration fee at the registration desk with cash or Eurocheque.
Walter Daelemans / walter@kub.nl ILK (Induction of Linguistic Knowledge) Computational Linguistics Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE TILBURG voice: +31 13 4663070 fax: +31 13 4663110
Name : Affiliation : Address : : : : E-mail : WWW home page : Status : [ ] student (non-PhD) - registration fee: DFL 75,- [ ] non-student - registration fee: DFL 110,- Please send this form to walter@kub.nl