CFP

XML-MINING CHALLENGE 2006 Classification - Clustering - Structure Mapping - for XML documents

Co-organized by the EU Pascal Network of Excellence and INEX (Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval)

from the Delos Network of Excellence

The general objective of the challenge is to develop machine learning methods for structured data mining and to evaluate these methods for XML document mining tasks. The challenge features three tasks: classification, clustering and Structure Mapping for XML documents. Participation is open to all. XML document collections have been gathered for the challenge and will be provided to the participants. Results will be presented at the challenge workshop to be held in July or September 2006 (to be fixed).

2006 March 15: Training data available
2006 May 15: Test data available
2006 June 1: Deadline for submitting test results
2006 July/September: Challenge workshop

More information is available at the challenge web site: http://xmlmining.lip6.fr

Contact: xmlmining@lip6.fr, ludovic.denoyer@lip6.fr http://www.pascal-network.org/ http://inex.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/2005/

This is the second round of the XML-Mining Challenge. The first was run in 2005 with a presentation of the results at the INEX workshop in November 2005.