2nd CFP for K-CAP '03: International Conference on Knowledge Capture

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  Second International Conference on Knowledge Capture
                     K-CAP 2003

              Sponsored by ACM SigArt

                 Oct 23-25th, 2003
     Sundial Resort, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA
          Submission deadline: April 28th, 2003
       http://sern.ucalgary.ca/ksi/k-cap/k-cap2003/
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               http://www.k-cap.org/
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Information in all forms is increasingly available, but using it 
effectively requires a range of technologies for representing, 
manipulating, and reasoning with information.  These technologies 
comprise knowledge capture, the extraction of useful knowledge from vast 
and diverse sources of information and raw data.  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, principally knowledge engineering, machine 
learning, and natural-language processing. However, other fields study 
knowledge capture, too. For example, in planning and process management, 
mixed-initiative systems acquire knowledge about a user's goals by 
taking commands or accepting advice regarding a task.  In addition, 
recent research with the Semantic Web includes work that tries to 
capture the knowledge associated with appropriately annotated web 
pages.  All of these approaches are related in that they acquire 
information and organize it in knowledge structures that can be used for 
reasoning. They are complementary in that they use different techniques 
and approaches to capture different forms of knowledge.

K-CAP 2003 will provide a forum in which to bring together disparate 
research communities 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.

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

Submission deadline: April 28th, 2003
Submission format: 8 pages, 10-point font, double column.
Complete formatting information, including templates, to be available 
from the web page.

Our apologies if you receive duplicate copies of this announcement. 
Please forward this announcement to friends and collegues who may be 
interested.

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Organizing committee
  John Gennari, Universtiy of Washington, Co-chair
  Bruce Porter, University of Texas at Austin, Co-chair
  Yolanda Gil, USC/Information Sciences Institute, General chair
  Rob Kremer, University of Calgary, Registration chair
  Jeff Bradshaw, University of West Florida, Local arrangements
  Peter Clark, Boeing Corporation, Treasurer
  John Domingue, The Open University, Workshop chair

Steeing committee
  Ken Forbus, Northwestern University
  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
  Jim Blythe, USC/ISI
  B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University
  Vinay Chaudhri , SRI, International
  Paul Compton, The University of New South Wales
  Marie DesJardin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  Rose Dieng-Kuntz, Inria, France
  Adam Farquhar, Schlumberger
  George Ferguson, University of Rochester
  Richard Fikes, Stanford University
  Udo Hahn, Universitat Freiburg
  Rob Holte, University of Alberta
  Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research
  Anthony Jameson, International University, Germany
  Henry Kautz , University of Washington
 Wendy Lehnert, University of Mass
  Daniel Marcu,  USC/ISI
  Vibhu Mittall, Google
  Enrico Motta, The Open University
  Tom Murray, Hampshire College
  Karen Myers, SRI, International
  Natasha Noy, Stanford University
  Mike Pazzani, National Science Foundation
  Alan Rector, University of Manchester
  Ellen Riloff, University of Utah
  Guus Schreiber, University of Amsterdam
  Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton
  Richard Sproat, AT&T Labs
  Rudy Studer, University of Karlsruhe
  Christopher Welty, IBM Research
  Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University

Received on Monday, 27 January 2003 15:11:55 UTC