Machine learning is the study of computational systems that improve performance at some task with experience. The Machine Learning research group at the University of Utah is led by Cindi Thompson, and our research applies machine learning to problems such as natural language acquisition and conversational recommender systems, and investigates issues such as active learning and learning from sensor data.

We are located in the School of Computing, at the University of Utah .

You might also be interested in the Natural Language Processing Group here.

Group Meetings

Graduate Students:

• Carolin Arnold

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Associations and Groups

• AAAI - American Association for Artificial Intelligence
• IJCAI - International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
• CogSci - Cognitive Science Society
• SIGART - ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
• SIGKDD - ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery in Databases
• SIGIR - ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
• AUAI - Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
• ILPNet - European Inductive Logic Programming Scientific Network
• ACL - Association for Computational Linguistics
• NAACL - Association for Computational Linguistics, North American Chapter
• COLING - International Conference on Computational Linguistics
• SIGNLL - ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning
• SIGDAT - ACL Special Interest Group on Linguistic Data and Corpora

Conferences and Workshops

• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2002)
• The Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2002)
• The 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-02)
• 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002)
• Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2002)
• International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-2002)
• International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
• International Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB-2002)
• The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL-2002)
• SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM-02)
• The ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2002)
• IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM-2002)
• The International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR-2002)
• International Conference on User Modeling (UM2003)

Information Sources

• AI Subject Index
• AAAI's AI Topics page
• Introductory Article on Machine Learning
• AI Biblio Query
• Index to Machine Learning Home Pages
• Machine Learning Resources
• Machine Learning Information Services
• MLnet Online Information Service
• UCI Machine Learning Repository
• SENSEVAL data
• Repository of Online Information Sources Used in Information Extraction Tasks
• Linguistic Data Consortium
• ACM Computing Research Repository (Many papers from many disciplines)
• NEC ResearchIndex
• CORA Computer Science Research Paper Search Engine

Code Resources

• MLC++, A Machine Learning Library in C++
• The WEKA machine learning project

Journals

• AIJ - Artificial Intelligence Journal
• Computational Linguistics - Journal of the ACL
• JAIR - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
• JMLR - Journal of Machine Learning Research
• MLJ - Machine Learning Journal
• JISE - Journal of Information Science and Engineering
• Human-Computer Interaction

Learning and AI Systems

• FOIL - J. R. Quinlan's inductive learner
• PRODIGY - Problem solving system for planning and learning at Carnegie Mellon
• UCPOP - Partial-Order Planner at University of Washington

Publishing Companies

• AAAI Press
• Elsevier Science
• Kluwer Academic Publishers
• MIT Press
• Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
• Morgan Kaufman Publishing

Research Groups

• Machine Learning Research Group - University of Texas at Austin
• Explanation-Based Learning Group - University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
• Center for Automated Learning and Discovery - Carnegie Mellon University
• World Wide Knowledge Base (WebKB) project - Carnegie Mellon University
• Machine Learning Research Group - University of Califorina at Irvine
• Machine Learning Research Group - University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Machine Learning Research Group -- Rutgers University
• Machine Learning Research Group - University of York
• The Centre for Computational Learning Systems - University of New South Wales
• Natural Language Processing Lab - Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University
• Induction of Linguisitic Knowledge Group, Tilburg Univerisity, The Netherlands.