Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases European C
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the joint conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: ECML PKDD 2008, held in Antwerp, Belgium, in September 2008. The 100 papers presented in two volumes, together with 5 invited
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Walter Daelemans Bart Goethals Katharina Morik (Eds.)
Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases European Conference, ECML PKDD 2008 Antwerp, Belgium, September 15-19, 2008 Proceedings, Part I
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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Walter Daelemans University of Antwerp, Department of Linguistics CNTS Language Technology Group Prinsstraat 13, L-203, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium E-mail: [email protected] Bart Goethals University of Antwerp Mathematics and Computer Science Department Middelheimlaan 1, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium E-mail: [email protected] Katharina Morik Technische Universität Dortmund Computer Science VIII, Artificial Intelligence Unit 44221 Dortmund, Germany E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface
When in 1986 Yves Kodratoff started the European Working Session on Learning at Orsay, France, it could not be foreseen that the conference would grow year by year and become the premier European conference of the field, attracting submissions from all over the world. The first European Conference on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery was organized by Henryk Jan Komorowski and Jan Zytkow in 1997 in Trondheim, Norway. Since 2001 the two conferences have been collocated, offering participants from both areas the opportunity to listen to each other’s talks. This year, the integration has moved even further. Instead of first splitting the field according to ECML or PKDD topics, we flattened the structure of the field to a single set of topics. For each of the topics, experts were invited to the Program Committee. Submi
