2nd Call for papers: Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture

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               K-CAP 2005: CALL FOR PAPERS
     Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture

      October 2-5, 2005, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada

           Website: http://www.kcap05.org/
           Submission deadline: May 6, 2005
             in cooperation with the AAAI

Information in all forms is increasingly available, but using it 
effectively requires a range of technologies for acquiring and 
representing that 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 2005 will provide 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 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:
  * Knowledge acquisition tools
  * Advice taking systems
  * Authoring tools
  * Learning apprentices
  * Knowledge engineering and modeling methodologies
  * Knowledge extraction systems
  * Knowledge management environments
  * Mixed-initiative decision-support tools
  * Knowledge-based markup techniques
  * Acquisition of problem-solving knowledge
  * Knowledge capture for the Semantic Web

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline:   May 6, 2005
Review results available:    June 17, 2005
Camera-ready version due:    July 15, 2005
Conference:                  October 2-5, 2005

Papers may be accepted as full papers or as posters. For detailed 
submission information, please consult the conference website at 
http://www.kcap05.org.

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
Treasurer:                   Jim Blythe, USC/ISI
Local Arrangements Chair:    Rob Kremer, University of Calgary
Workshop and Tutorial Chair: Marie desJardins, Univ of Maryland, 
Baltimore
Publicity Chair:             Matthew Richardson, Microsoft
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

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, University of West Florida
Aldo Gangemi, CNR Rome
John Gennari, University of Washington
Asun Gomez-Perez, Polytechnic University Madrid
Udo Hahn, Universitat Freiburg
Rob Holte, University of Alberta
Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research
Ed Hovy, USC/ISI
Ross King, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Doug Lenat, Cycorp
Henry Lieberman, MIT
Daniel Marcu,  USC/ISI
Vibhu Mittal, Google
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University
Enrico Motta, The Open University
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
Mike Uschold, Boeing
Christopher Welty, IBM Research
Bob Wielinga, University of Amsterdam

Received on Wednesday, 9 February 2005 04:33:01 UTC