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Invited Talk
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Title: How to Write and Publish Research Papers

Speaker: Prof. Charles Ling
Department of Computer Science
University of Western Ontario, Canada

Abstract

Chinese researchers (including MSc/PhD students and some faculty
members) often encounter great difficulties in writing and publishing
research papers in competitive international conferences and journals.
What are the typical mistakes we make in paper writing? Why do
reviewers reject our papers? How can we quickly improve our paper
writing skills? I will try to answer these questions in this talk.

Biography of Speaker

Professor Charles X. Ling earned his Msc and PhD from the Department of
Computer Science at Univ of Pennsylvania in 1987 and 1989
respectively. Since then he has been a faculty member in Computer
Science at University of Western Ontario. His main research areas
include machine learning, data mining, and cognitive modeling.
He has published over 100 research papers in journals (such as Machine
Learning, JAIR, JMLR, JKDD, IEEE TKDE, and Bioinformatics) and
international conferences (such as IJCAI, KDD, ICDM, and ICML). He is
also the Director of Data Mining Lab, leading data mining development
in CRM, Bioinformatics, and the Internet. He has managed several major
data-mining projects for banks and insurance companies in Canada. See
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/cling for more info.