1 Table of Contents: “... -- The Biases of Decision Tree Pruning Strategies -- Feature Selection as Retrospective Pruning in Hierarchical...”

2 Table of Contents: “... -- Text Analysis -- String Kernels Based on Variable-Length-Don’t-Care Patterns -- Unsupervised Spam...”

3 Table of Contents: “... Representations in Presence of Missing Values -- Measures of Rule Quality for Feature Selection in Text...”

4 Table of Contents: “...: Histograms and Contexts in Text Data Clustering -- Does SVM Really Scale Up to Large Bag of Words Feature...”

5 Table of Contents: “...Feature selection for neural networks through functional links found by evolutionary computation...”