Information in all forms is increasingly available, but using it effectively requires a range of technologies for acquiring, representing, reasoning, and manipulating information. These technologies constitute knowledge capture, and involve the extraction of useful knowledge from vast and diverse sources of information as well as its acquisition directly from users. Driven by the demands for knowledge-based applications and the unprecedented availability of information on the Internet, the study of knowledge capture has a renewed importance.
Although there has been considerable work in the area of knowledge capture, activities have been distributed across several distinct research communities, including knowledge engineering, machine learning, natural language processing, and the Semantic Web community. K-CAP provides a forum that brings together disparate research communities such as these, whose members are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources and in creating representations that can be useful for reasoning. We solicit high-quality research papers for publication and presentation at our conference. Our aim is to promote multidisciplinary research that could lead to a new generation of tools and methodologies for knowledge capture.
K-CAP 2005, sponsored by ACM SIGART, follows on the success of two previous conferences in 2003 (Florida, USA) and 2001 (Victoria, Canada).
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
IMPORTANT DATES
| Paper submission deadline: | May 6, 2005 | |
| Review results available: | June 17, 2005 | |
| Camera-ready version due: | July 16, 2005 | |
| Conference: | October 2-5, 2005 |
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Deadline: |
May 6, 2005 | |
| Page Limit: | 8 pages, using 10-point font, double column format | |
| Templates: | http://www.kcap05.org/templates/KCap05-Template.doc For LaTeX users, please use the following template: |
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| Submissions: |
Please register as an author and submit papers (in PDF format only) at:
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INVITED SPEAKERS
Pat Hayes (IHMC, Univ
West Florida)
Carole Goble (University of
Manchester, UK)
ABOUT THE VENUE
Banff is located in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, about 100 km west of Calgary.
Banff is part of Banff National Park, which offers a multitude of outdoor
activities. The Banff Centre was the traditional venue for the
knowledge-acquisition workshops held between 1985-1996.
More information:
| The Banff Centre: | http://www.banffcentre.ca/ | |
| Banff National Park: | http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/ab/banff/ |
ORGANIZATION
| Program Co-Chairs | Peter Clark (Boeing) Guus Schreiber (Free University Amsterdam) |
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| Treasurer | Jim Blythe (USC/ISI) | |
| Local Arrangements Chair | Rob Kremer (University of Calgary) | |
| Workshop and Tutorial Chair | Marie desJardins (University of Maryland Baltimore County) | |
| Publicity Chair | Matthew Richardson (Microsoft Research) | |
| Sponsorship Co-Chairs | Yolanda Gil (USC/ISI) David Leake (Indiana University) |
Steering Committee
| Ken Forbus (Northwestern University) | |
| Yolanda Gil (USC/ISI) | |
| Mark Musen (Stanford University) | |
| Jude Shavlik (University of Wisconsin at Madison) | |
| Derek Sleeman (University of Aberdeen) |
Program Committee
| Eugene Agichtein (Microsoft Research) | |
| Ken Barker (University of Texas) | |
| Larry Birnbaum (Northwestern University) | |
| Guy Boy (Eurisco) | |
| Vinay Chaudhri (SRI, International) | |
| Paul Compton (University of New South Wales) | |
| Rose Dieng (INRIA, France) | |
| Adam Farquhar (The British Library) | |
| Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck) | |
| George Ferguson (University of Rochester) | |
| Ken Ford (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition) | |
| Aldo Gangemi (CNR Rome) | |
| John Gennari (University of Washington) | |
| Asun Gomez-Perez (Polytechnic University Madrid) | |
| Udo Hahn (Jena University) | |
| Rob Holte (University of Alberta) | |
| Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research) | |
| Ed Hovy (USC/ISI) | |
| Ross King (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) | |
| Doug Lenat (Cycorp) | |
| Henry Liebermann (MIT) | |
| Daniel Marcu (USC/ISI) | |
| Vibhu Mittal (Google) | |
| Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University) | |
| Enrico Motta (The Open University) | |
| Ken Murray (SRI International) | |
| Natasha Noy (Stanford University) | |
| Bruce Porter (University of Texas at Austin) | |
| Alan Rector (University of Manchester) | |
| Claude Sammut (University of New South Wales) | |
| Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton) | |
| Rudy Studer (University of Karlsruhe) | |
| John Thompson (The Boeing Company) | |
| Peter Turney (NRC, Canada) | |
| Mike Uschold (Boeing) | |
| Christopher Welty (IBM Research) | |
| Bob Wielinga (University of Amsterdam) |