This page provides an overview of the discussion site as well its syntax and some frequently asked questions.

If you have any questions that are not answered here, please leave some Feedback or contact us.

The site is organised so each paper accepted to ICML 2008 has its own page. For example, spare Bayesian nonparametric regression.

The pages for each paper are organised the same way. From top to bottom we have:

1. The paper's title
2. The paper's Keywords (clicking on a keyword will show you all papers with that keyword)
3. A link to the published PDF version of the paper
4. The authors of the paper (clicking on an author's name will show you all the papers by that author)
5. The abstract
6. A discussion

Anyone can leave comments in the discussion section of a paper's page. The syntax for doing so is straight-forward and is described below.

NOTE: If you want to be able to edit or delete your comments you must register. You can do that via this link or via the “Login” button at the bottom of each page.

Please keep the comments pertinent to the paper under discussion.

You must leave a name and email address (this will not be published anywhere). Optionally, you can put a URL in the “website” field and your name next to your comment will become a link to that URL.

You must also fill in a simple CAPTCHA by copying the letters next to the field next to the “Save” button.

Comments left in a discussion thread can be marked up using DokuWiki syntax. A full description of the syntax is available but the most common mark up is described below.

DokuWiki supports bold, italic, underlined and monospaced texts. Of course you can combine all these.

DokuWiki supports **bold**, //italic//, __underlined__ and ''monospaced'' texts.
Of course you can **__//''combine''//__** all these.

You can use _subscript and ^superscript, too. You can mark something as deleted as well.

You can use <sub>subscript</sub> and <sup>superscript</sup>, too.
You can mark something as <del>deleted</del> as well.

Internal links are created by using square brackets. You can either just give a wiki:pagename or use an additional Title Text. Wiki pagenames are converted to lowercase automatically, special characters are not allowed.

Internal links are created by using square brackets. You can either just give
a [[pagename]] or use an additional [[pagename|Title Text]]. Wiki pagenames
are converted to lowercase automatically, special chars are not allowed.

External links are recognized automagically: http://www.google.com or simply www.google.com - You can set Linknames, too: This Link points to google. Email addresses like this one: andi@splitbrain.org are recognized, too.

DokuWiki supports multiple ways of creating links. External links are recognized
automagically: http://www.google.com or simply www.google.com - You can set
Linknames, too: [[http://www.google.com|This Link points to google]]. Email
addresses like this one: <andi@splitbrain.org> are recognized, too.

To insert LaTeX equations into a discussion simply surround LaTeX markup with the tags <latex> and </latex>. For example, the following markup

  <latex>e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0</latex>

is rendered as .

Mark Reid has set up this discussion site in response to an idea by John Langford.

Mark can be contacted via email mark.reid@anu.edu.au or via the Feedback page.