call for participation: AAAI fall symposium on Open Government Knowledge (This weekend, Nov 4-6, Washington DC)

Call for participation

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AAAI 2011 Fall Symposium
Open Government Knowledge: AI Opportunities and Challenges
4-6 November 2011 • Arlington, Virginia USA

homepage: http://tw.rpi.edu/ogk2011
program (PDF): http://tw.rpi.edu/media/latest/ogk2011.pdf
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Please join us to meet the thought governmental and business leaders in
US open government data activities, and discuss the challenges. The
symposium features Friday (Nov 4) as governmental day with speakers on
Data.gov, openEi.org, open gov data activities in NIH/NCI, NASA. and
Saturday (Nov 5) as R&D day with speakers from industry such as Google
and Microsoft, as well international researchers.

This symposium will explore how AI technologies such as the Semantic Web,
information extraction, statistical analysis and machine learning, can 
be used
to make the valuable knowledge embedded in open government data more
explicit, accessible and reusable.


Co-Chairs for OGK 2011
* Li Ding, Qualcomm (Previously RPI)
* Tim Finin, UMBC
* Lalana Kagal, MIT
* Deborah McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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