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NIPS*2006 Author Instructions
This
document contains information about the process of submitting a paper to NIPS*2006.
You can find general information for authors at http://research.microsoft.com/conferences/nips06/
, including a Call for Papers and suggestions for improving your NIPS paper. On September 5,
the accept/reject decisions will be sent. 1. Paper Submission Deadline
The submission
deadline is 11:59PM Pacific Daylight Time on June 9, 2006. The server may be
open for a few more minutes. 2. Author feedback
Starting August
3, authors will be given the chance to see the reviews and respond to their
content. Giving feedback
is optional: your feedback can be used by the reviewers to alter their
judgment about the paper. The system allows you to respond to each review
individually in a text box. These responses are due back by 23:59:59 UTC on
Wednesday August 9. A few things to
note about the author response: §
Due to a
limitation in ConfMaster, you can submit feedback only once per review. We
strongly recommend that you read the reviews, discuss the authorsouir
response amongst your co-authors, draft the response off-line, then upload
the response(s). Only the contact author can upload the response. §
We’ve
limited each response to be 250 words long (per review). This is computed
somewhat differently than the UNIX wc program: a word is a contiguous string
of one or more characters from the set A-Z, a-z, underscore, or backslash.
Digits are completely ignored. If you exceed 250 words according to the
algorithm, the system will silently reject the response and allow you to try
again. §
Note:
the system only has accepted your response if you can read it after you click
“Submit”. Otherwise, it is not registered in the system and
reviewers cannot read it. §
If you have
Perl installed on your computer, you can emulate ConfMaster’s word
counting program by saving your response in a file, and typing perl –ne “END {print $x} s/\d+//g; @w
= /([A-Za-z\\_]+)/g; $x += @w” filename §
Remember that
we are double-blind this year. Do not include any information in the response
that can identify you or your co-authors. Please do not include any URLs in
your response. §
Every response
to a paper can be seen by every reviewer, so there is no need to repeat
information between responses. Finally, we
recommend using the response to influence the reviewers where they can be
influenced. If a reviewer has expressed uncertainty about an issue, or is
making an incorrect assumption, or has misunderstood a point in the paper,
that is ideal to address in an author’s response. It may be difficult
to change a reviewer’s value judgment about a paper, such as overall
clarity or significance. In any event, the best strategy is to be polite and
professional. 3. Keywords
The purpose of
the keywords is to assist assignment of papers to area chairs and reviewers.
However, the separation between different areas does not play a major role
anymore, and authors should refrain from choosing keywords based on past
rumours of what may increase their chances of acceptance. Here is the list of
keywords to choose from: o
Bioinformatics o
Biological
vision o
Brain imaging
and brain computer interfacing o
Clustering o
Cognitive
science o
Control and
reinforcement learning o
Dimensionality
reduction and manifolds o
Feature
selection o
Gaussian
processes o
Graphical
models o
Hardware
technologies o
Kernels o
Learning
theory o
Machine vision o
Margins and
boosting o
o
Neural
networks o
Neuroscience o
Other
algorithms o
Other
applications o
Semi-supervised
learning o
Speech and
signal processing o
Text and
language 4. Electronic submission
The web site for
electronic submission is http://papers.nips.cc
. Since we do not
accept paper submissions, particular care should be taken to ensure that your
paper prints well on the reviewers' hardware. Please consult Section 6 in the
PDF/PS example file. Please follow the
style files: papers longer than 8 pages will be rejected before review. Note that the maximal
file length for submissions is 5MB. You can upload an
early version of your paper well before the deadline. If you start
registering your paper only a few minutes before the deadline, you may not
have enough time to fill in all the forms. Replacing an earlier version later
is no problem and does not take as long ("upload early and often").
If you are not
only an author but also a reviewer, please use the same login. If your paper
is registered by your co-author, tell them which of your email addresses to
use (the same as the one you are using as a reviewer). Note that NIPS
reviewing is now double blind, so please follow the style files provided and
make sure the submission does not include author names and affiliations. 5. Submitting extra material
In previous
years, authors could include URLs to extra supporting material for their
papers. Because of double-blind reviewing, this year we will permit authors
to upload such supporting material with their paper. Please make sure that
the supporting material is also anonymized, removing your name from any extra
material, and referring to previous work in the third person. Such extra
material may include long technical proofs that do not fit into the paper,
image, audio or video sample outputs from your algorithm, animations that
describe your algorithm, details of experimental results, or even source code
for running experiments. Note that the
reviewers and the program committee reserve the right to judge the paper
solely on the basis of the 8 pages of the paper: looking at any extra
material is up to the discretion of the reviewers and is not required. To submit a paper
with extra material, please create an archive file and upload it to
ConfMaster. This archive file can be in the .zip format (using WinZip or
equivalent), or in .tar.gz format (using tar and gzip). There is a strict
upper limit of 5 megabytes for any submission --- archives larger than this
will be rejected by ConfMaster. If you do create
such an archive, please name your paper file in the following way: start with
“paper_”, then use a few words from your title to disambiguate
your paper from others, then end with “.pdf” or “.ps”
as appropriate. For extra files, start with a description of the extra
material, such as “proof_” , or “appendix_”, or
“video_”; then use the same words as your main submission, then
the appropriate extension. Please use these
naming schemes: failure to do so will break our automated scripts. 6. Submitting previously published work
Submissions that
are identical (or nearly identical) to versions that have been previously
published or that have been submitted in parallel to other conferences whose
audience significantly overlaps with the one of NIPS are not appropriate for
NIPS. Exceptions to this rule are the following: (1) NIPS will review shorter
write-ups of longer papers that have been recently (i.e. in the current
calendar year) submitted to journals, and (2) NIPS will review papers whose
content has been previously published, but only in a form that is
particularly inaccessible to the NIPS audience. Authors of such papers should
cite the earlier work if the previous work has already appeared in public. In
these cases, the NIPS submission should involve a substantial revision of the
original paper, in style if not in content. Examples of
conferences that are too close to NIPS and where double submission will not
be considered: ICML, COLT, ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, ECML, KDD, ICANN, IJCNN, WCNN,
SODA, FOCS, STOC. Examples of
conferences where the papers are generally unfamiliar to the NIPS audience
include application-oriented conferences, such as SIGGRAPH, SIGIR, and WWW;
or regional machine learning conferences such as BNAIC, Benelearn, DAGM, and
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