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LxMLS 2011 took place July 20-25 (*) at Instituto Superior Técnico, a leading Engineering and Science school in Portugal. It was organized jointly by IST, the Instituto de Telecomunicações and the Spoken Language Systems Lab - L2F of

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In its debut year, the topic of the school was Learning for the Web.

The school covers a range of machine learning (ML) Topics, from theory to practice, that are important in solving natural language processing (NLP) problems that arise in the analysis and use of Web data.

Our target audience is:

1. •Researchers and graduate students in the fields of NLP and Computational Linguistics;
   

2. •Computer scientists who have interests in statistics and machine learning;
   

3. •Industry practitioners who desire a more in depth understanding of these subjects.
   

Features of LxMLS:

1. •No deep previous knowledge of ML or NLP is assumed;
   

2. •Recommended reading is provided in advance;
   

3. •Includes a strong practical component;
   

4. •A day zero is scheduled to review basic concepts and introduce the necessary tools for implementation exercises;
   

5. •Days will be divided into tutorials and practical sessions (view schedule);
   

6. •Both basic and advanced topics are covered;
   

7. •Instructors are leading researchers in machine learning.
   

(*) Note the convenient timeframe, strategically collocated in-between important ML and NLP conferences that are held nearby: IJCAI, UAI, and EMNLP.