Preface to this Volume

Preface: the History of This Volume

User modeling is now approaching its second decade. Its exact age, however, is difficult to determine. Was it born in 1978, when Allen, Cohen, and Perrault started to publish their seminal papers on dialog processing in natural language systems based on Searle's theory of speech acts and the speaker's intentions behind it? Or was it in 1979, when Elain Rich reported on her GRUNDY system, which ...

Preface to this special issue

This issue of JMLR is devoted to the memory of Alexey Chervonenkis. Over the period of a dozen years between 1962 and 1973 he and Vladimir Vapnik created a new discipline of statistical learning theory—the foundation on which all our modern understanding of pattern recognition is based. Alexey was 28 years old when they made their most famous and original discovery, the uniform law of large num...

Preface to Volume 13

We also continue to publish work from many different disciplines and, particularly welcome, see that many of our articles represent collaborations between authors coming from different disciplines. Such broad representation and collaboration is the lifeblood of a transdiscipline. It is all too easy for a journal to gravitate towards a particular perspective on research. It is heartening to see ...

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