CFP

Eighth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and
Statistics

January 3-6, 2001, Hyatt Hotel, Key West, Florida

http://www.ai.mit.edu/conferences/aistats2001/

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: midnight July 10, 2000 (PST)

This is the eighth in a series of workshops which have brought
together researchers in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and in Statistics
to discuss problems of mutual interest.

To encourage interaction and a broad exchange of ideas, the
presentations will be limited to about 20 discussion papers in single
session meetings over three days (Jan. 4-6). Focused poster sessions
will provide the means for presenting and discussing the remaining
research papers. Papers for poster sessions will be treated equally
with papers for presentation in publications.  Attendance at the
workshop will not be limited.

The three days of research presentations will be preceded by a day of
tutorials (Jan. 3). These are intended to expose researchers in each
field to the methodology and techniques used in other related areas.

The Eighth workshop especially encourages submissions related to the
following workshop themes in the interface between information
retrieval and statistics:

 Statistical natural language processing
 Game theory
 Missing information; unlabeled examples
 Error correcting codes

In addition, papers on all aspects of the interface between AI &
Statistics are strongly encouraged.

Submission Requirements:

Electronic submission of abstracts is required. The abstracts (up to 4
pages in length) should be submitted through the AI and Statistics
Conference Management page supported by Microsoft Research. More
specific instructions are available at

http://cmt.research.microsoft.com/AISTATS2001/

Submissions will be considered if they are received by midnight July
10, 2000 (PST).  Please indicate the theme and/or the topic(s) your abstract
addresses. Receipt of all submissions will be confirmed via electronic
mail. Acceptance notices will be emailed by September 1, 2000.

Preliminary papers (up to 12 pages, double column) must be received by
November 1, 2000. These preliminary papers will be copied and
distributed at the workshop.

Program Chairs:

Thomas Richardson, University of Washington, tsr@stat.washington.edu
Tommi Jaakkola, MIT, tommi@ai.mit.edu