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Subject: KCAP-03 Workshop (REMINDER...)
In the early days of Expert Systems, knowledge engineers were given a
very prominent role in interviewing domain experts and then formalising
and implementing a knowledge base which captured what they thought an
expert had said and/or how they had solved selected problems. This
approach is both very expensive and open to many potential communication
problems between the domain expert and the knowledge engineer.
Role-limiting approaches took a substantial step forward, by viewing
domain-level knowledge acquired from an expert by a knowledge acquisition
tool as playing certain roles within a domain-independent problem solving
method (PSM).
Today’s experts are avid computer users who can envision the potential of
knowledge bases in their fields of expertise. This is clearly the case in
many areas of science, where experts are eager and committed to undertake
long-term knowledge capture and dissemination to improve their fields and
benefit related ones. Many are already developing what can be considered
skeletal ontologies and already using them to support relatively simple
tasks. There is clear interest in moving towards more sophisticated
knowledge bases that support complex problem solving activity.
One of the functions of this workshop is to have an in-depth look at the
current state-of-the-art and in particular to see how the WWW has changed
our thinking about these issues. The issue of whether it is necessary to
superimpose a knowledge model on information acquired before it can be
used to solve meaningful & novel tasks is one of the points of
contention between this workshop & the one with which it is linked,
namely, the "Distributed & Collaborative Knowledge
Capture" workshop. Additionally, some groups of domain
experts, who are now more computationally sophisticated, are asking for
tools which will enable them to maintain collaboratively their own
Knowledge Bases. Some of the problems of maintaining knowledge bases
overlap with acquisition, others are quite distinct.
Clearly, this is a very inter-disciplinary activity and we very much hope
that the contributions for the workshop will reflect this. These are some
of the topics which we hope papers will address;
- - Systems
which have been used by domain experts to develop KBs
- - Systems
which have been used by domain experts to maintain KBs
- - Techniques
to help domain experts visualise and debug their KBs
- - Detailed
requirements from domain experts for the tools they would like to use
when developing & maintaining KBs /Ontologies
- - Detailed
case histories of the development of particular topic-specific KBs
- etc
Workshop format:
- -
There
will be an opening Invited talk/position paper.
- -
Where
possible talks should include appropriate demos.
- -
If
there is a need we will also organize a longer demo/posters
session.
- -
We
plan to have at least one panel - this will be with the Linked Workshop
as the grand finale.
It is desirable that persons attending this workshop should also
attend the linked workshop: "Distributed & Collaborative
Knowledge Capture" as this is on a related topic & we are
planning at least to have a joint panel as a Grand Finale for the
2 workshops.
Co-chairs: Derek
Sleeman, Aberdeen, UK
dsleeman@csd.abdn.ac.uk
Yolanda
Gil, ISI, USA
gil@isi.edu
Members
of the programme committee:
- Pete Clark, (Boeing, USA)
Martin
Dzbor (OU, UK)
- John Gennari (Washington, USA)
- Midori Harris, (EBI, UK)
- Mark Musen (Stanford, USA)
- Kieron O'Hara (Southampton, UK)
- Alan Rector (Manchester, UK)
Guus
Schreiber (Amsterdam, Holland)
Michael
Witbrock (Cycorp Inc.,
USA)
- Submissions
We invite short papers, limited to
8 pages, which describe ongoing work or new ideas within the scope of the
workshop. Papers may also be in the form of a position statement,
indicating a writer's particular opinion on a subject related to the
workshop.
Submission procedure: Please email submissions, in PDF format
only, to
dsleeman@csd.abdn.ac.uk
before 20th July (2003).
Submission format: Please use this
Word
template . This template is
based on the official ACM templates for proceedings. In accordance with
requirements of the ACM digital library, please include categories and
subject descriptors that best describe your submission. The hierarchy of
descriptors can be found
here.
You may include optional keywords. Note that reviewer assignments will be
based on the contents of the abstract, as well as these descriptors and
keywords. Accepted papers will be published as part of the KCAP 2003
workshop proceedings.
- Timetable:
May 19, 2003: Publications of Call for Participation
July 19, 2003: Papers to be submitted to Chair of Workshop Committee,
Derek Sleeman
August 19, 2003: Feedback to Authors on submitted papers
September 1, 2003: Publication of K-CAP 2003 workshop program
September 12, 2003: Revised papers to be submitted to Workshop Chair,
Derek Sleeman
October 25-26, 2003: K-CAP 2003 workshops
- Contributions & general queries should be sent to:
- Derek Sleeman,
- Department of Computing Science,
- The University, ABERDEEN AB24 3FX
Phone:
+44 (0)1224 272296/88
FAX +44
(0)1224 273422
Email:
dsleeman@csd.abdn.ac.uk