CFP: K-CAP 2015 - The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Capture, 7-10 October, Palisades, NY

  K-CAP 2015

/The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Capture/
/October 7-10, 2015, Dolce Palisades, Palisades, NY, USA/

http://www.k-cap2015.org

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    At-a-Glance


        Conference Dates

  * Workshops/tutorials: Wednesday, October 7, 2015
  * Plenary sessions: Thursday, October 8, 2015 - Saturday, October 10, 2015


        Submissions

  * Full papers: June 1, 2015
  * Posters: August 1, 2015


        Venue and Hotel

  * Dolce Palisades, Palisades, NY
  * Hotel reservation cutoff date: September 18, 2015


        Airports

  * New York John F. Kennedy (JFK)
  * New York LaGuardia (LGA)
  * Newark (EWR)
  * Westchester (HPN)



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    Announcement

In today's information-centric world, effective access to and use of 
knowledge is a key enabler for progress. Driven by the demands for 
intelligent applications and the explosion of information on the Web, 
the study of Knowledge Capture is crucially important. Knowledge Capture 
is the extraction of useful knowledge from diverse sources: unstructured 
information sources, semi-structured and structured data sources, 
knowledge graphs and directly from crowds and individuals, either 
through observation or implicit or explicit elicitation.

The wealth of information available from such a variety of sources calls 
for new methods of Knowledge Capture that draw both from traditional 
knowledge acquisition techniques and from more data-driven techniques 
such as large-scale data mining, statistical analysis and data analytics.

Researchers and practitioners who work in the area of Knowledge Capture 
traditionally participate in several distinct communities, including 
Knowledge Engineering, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, 
Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Inteligence and the Semantic Web. 
K-CAP 2015 will provide a forum to bring together members of disparate 
research communities who are interested in all aspects of capturing 
knowledge from a variety of sources, as well as those interested in 
creating representations that can be useful for reasoning, analysis, and 
other forms of machine processing.



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    Venue

This year's K-CAP conference will be held at the Dolce Palisades Hotel 
and Conference Center, just outside New York City. The Dolce Palisades 
is within 30 miles of the NYC airports: John F. Kennedy (JFK), LaGuardia 
(LGA), Newark (EWR) and Westchester (HPN). The venue is minutes by car 
to the Metro North train with service to Grand Central Terminal in 
Manhattan.

K-CAP 2015 is also conveniently close in time and space to this year's 
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015) at Lehigh University 
in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Although the two conferences are not quite 
"co-located", those at K-CAP 2015 can easily attend the last K-CAP 
plenary session, have their free K-CAP lunch and make it to Bethlehem to 
check in prior to the first day of ISWC activities.



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    Call for Submissions

We solicit high-quality research and application papers for publication 
and presentation at the K-CAP 2015 conference. Submissions are welcome 
that address any area of Knowledge Capture, including (but not limited to):

  * Knowledge Acquisition / Capture
  * Knowledge Extraction from Text
  * Knowledge Extraction from Structured Sources
  * Knowledge Authoring
  * Knowledge Discovery
  * Knowledge Graph Construction (Curated, Automatic or Hybrid)
  * Human Computation for Knowledge Capture
  * Machine Reading
  * Knowledge Capture for or from the Semantic Web and the Web of Linked
    Data
  * Knowledge Management
  * Knowledge Publication
  * Collaborative and Social Approaches to Knowledge Management and
    Acquisition
  * Crowdsourcing for Knowledge Capture and Refinement
  * Knowledge Capture from Social Environments and Contexts
  * Mixed-Initiative Planning and Decision-Support
  * Problem-solving Knowledge and Methods
  * Knowledge-Based Markup Techniques
  * Knowledge Engineering and Modelling Methodologies
  * Narrative Intelligence
  * Knowledge Capture through Storytelling
  * Learning by Reading
  * Provenance and Trust Issues in Knowledge Intensive Systems



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    Important Dates

  * tutorial/workshop proposals: May 1, 2015
  * full paper submissions: June 1, 2015
  * paper acceptance notification: July 15, 2015
  * poster submissions: August 1, 2015
  * hotel reservation cutoff date: September 18, 2015



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    Contacts

  * info@k-cap.org
  * kjbarker.work@gmail.com
  * http://www.k-cap.org



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    Organizing Committee

  * General Chair: Ken Barker
  * Program Chair: José Manuel Gómez Pérez
  * Workshop and Tutorials Chair: Raúl García Castro
  * Local Arrangements Chair: James Fan
  * Publicity Chair: Tania Tudorache



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    Attendee Expenses

The following estimated expenses are illustrative only and subject to 
change. Please use the information to form a gross estimate of your 
budget. All expenses in US dollars.


        Accommodation

  * $149/night ($165.95 after sales tax and occupancy tax) at Dolce
    Palisades when using the booking code "K-CAP 2015 Knowledge Capture
    Conference" prior to September 20, 2015
  * includes overnight accommodations, full breakfast buffet, unlimited
    local telephone calls, WiFi access, 800 and credit card access
    calls, in-room coffee, and unlimited use of the fitness center,
    swimming pool, tennis and volleyball facilities


        Registration

  * $450 (student); $650 (regular member)
  * includes lunch buffet (all four days), continuous all day breaks,
    WiFi access, reception (light food + beverage) the evening of
    October 7, reception (light food + beverage) the evening of October 9


        Local Travel

  * One-way car service from NYC airports: $100 (1 person), $150 (2 people)


        Meals

  * All lunches are included in conference registration fee; breakfasts
    are included in hotel reservation; dinners will be at the expense of
    attendees (we will provide a list of varied local options with
    estimated costs)



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    K-CAP Steering Committee

  * Derek Sleeman (Chair)
  * Ken Barker (Chair-Elect)
  * Mathieu d'Aquin
  * V. Richard Benjamins
  * Raúl García Castro
  * Oscar Corcho
  * Andrew Gordon
  * Mark Musen
  * Natasha Noy
  * José Manuel Gómez Pérez

Received on Wednesday, 8 April 2015 22:08:40 UTC