ECML/PKDD 2014 Workshop on Multi-Target Prediction http://www.kermit.ugent.

be/multi-target-prediction/ Call for Papers and Extended Abstracts Traditional methods in machine learning and statistics provide data-driven model s for predicting one-dimensional targets, such as binary outputs in classificati on and real-valued outputs in regression. In recent years, novel application dom ains have triggered fundamental research on more complicated problems where mult i-target predictions are required. Such problems arise in diverse application do mains, such as document categorization, tag recommendation of images, video and music, information retrieval, natural language processing, drug discovery, biolo gy, etc. Specific multi-target prediction problems have been studied in a variety of subf ields of machine learning and statistics, such as multi-label classification, mu ltivariate regression, pairwise learning, structured output prediction, recommen der systems, preference learning, multi-task learning, dyadic prediction and col lective learning. Despite their commonalities, work on solving problems in the a bove domains has typically been performed in isolation, without much interaction between the different sub-communities. The main goal of the workshop is to cons truct a unifying discussion platform for the above-mentioned subfields of machin e learning, by focusing on the simultaneous prediction of multiple, mutually dep endent output variables. Contributions might concern (but are not limited to) th e following topics: Multi-label classification Multivariate regression / Multi-output regression Structured output prediction Multi-task learning and transfer learning Constructive machine learning Pairwise learning / dyadic prediction Label ranking Matrix factorization and collaborative filtering methods Recommender systems Sequence learning, time series prediction and data stream mining Collective classification and inference Conditional random fields, structured SVMs and graphical models Evaluation of multi-target prediction systems Data sampling in multi-target prediction Efficient inference and large-scale learning in multi-target pred. Theoretical results on multi-target prediction Incorporation of domain knowledge in multi-target prediction

Full papers can take up to 8 pages and they need to report original work that ha s not been published yet. Extended abstracts have a maximum of 3 pages and can a lso concern a discussion of a given topic or past published work, if the precise references to the original publication are mentioned. Instructions can be found at the workshop website.