University of Wisconsin - Machine Learning Paper-Reading Group

(Meetings are at 10:00 AM in CS&S 2310, and are open to students who have taken CS 760 and are willing to present a paper to the group.)

Our old schedules are also on line.

March 19 (Tuesday)
- J.B. Golden, D. Torgersen, and C. Tibbetts. 1993. Pattern Recognition for Automated DNA Sequencing: I. On-line Signal Contitioning and Feature Extraction for Basecalling. First International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology.
- presented by Carolyn Allex
April 2 (Tuesday)
- R Miikkilainen, and M. Dyer 1991. Natural Language Processing with Modular Neural Networks and Distributed Lexicon. Cognitive Science, Volume 15 pp343-399 Only read the first 10-15 pages.
- presented by Gil
April 16 (Tuesday)
- J.R. Quinlan 1994. Comparing Connectionist and Symbolic Learning Methods Computational Learning Theory and Natural Learning Systems I: Constraints and Prospects, 445-456. Hanson, Drastal, and Rivest (eds). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- D.B. Skalak 1994. Prototype and Feature Selection by Sampling and Random Mutation Hill Climbing Algorithms, 293-301. Proc 11th Intl Conf on Machine Learning (ML-94). New Brunswick, NJ: Morgan Kaufmann.
- presented by Kevin Cherkauer
May 14 (Tuesday)
- P. Auer, R. Holte and W. Maass 1995. Theory and Applications of Agnostic PAC-Learning with Small Decision Trees, Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Machine Learning pp. 21-29.
- presented by Mark Craven