[DL] CFP: K-CAP 2009 - The 5th Intl. Conference on Knowledge Capture

[Tania Tudorache]

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CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS, POSTERS AND DEMOS

K-CAP 2009:  The Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Capture
Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach & Marina Hotel, California, USA
1-4 September, 2009

http://kcap09.stanford.edu

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In today's knowledge-driven world, effective access to and use of 
information is a key enabler for progress. Modern technologies not only 
are themselves knowledge-intensive technologies, but also produce 
enormous amounts of new information that we must process and aggregate. 
These technologies require knowledge capture, which 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 Web, the study of knowledge capture 
has a renewed importance.

Researchers that work in the area of knowledge capture traditionally 
belong to several distinct research communities, including knowledge 
engineering, machine learning, natural language processing, 
human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence and the Semantic 
Web. K-CAP 2009 will provide a forum that brings together members of 
disparate research communities that are interested in efficiently 
capturing knowledge from a variety of sources and in creating 
representations that can be useful for reasoning, analysis, and other 
forms of machine processing. 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 2009 follows on the 
success of four previous conferences in 2007 (Whistler, Canada), in 2005 
(Banff, Canada), in 2003 (Florida, USA), and 2001 (Victoria, Canada).

The Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2009 will 
feature Invited Talks, Technical Papers, Workshops, Posters and Demos on 
a range of topics including:

* Knowledge acquisition tools
* Authoring tools
* Knowledge extraction systems
* Knowledge management environments
* Knowledge capture for the Semantic Web
* Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and 
acquisition
* Learning apprentices
* Mixed-initiative planning and decision-support tools
* Acquisition of problem-solving knowledge
* Knowledge-based markup techniques
* Advice taking systems
* Knowledge engineering and modeling methodologies

IMPORTANT DATES

Technical papers
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Papers due: April 15, 2009
Author notification: May 31, 2009
Camera-ready copy due: June 30, 2009

Workshops
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Workshop proposals due: February 16, 2009
Notification of workshop acceptance: March 15, 2009
K-CAP 2009 workshops: September 1, 2009

Tutorials
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Tutorial proposals due: February 16, 2009
Notification of tutorial acceptance: March 15, 2009
K-CAP 2009 tutorials: September 1, 2009

Posters and demos
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Poster and demo submissions: June 15, 2009
Author notifications: July 5, 2009

Technical papers
Complete formatting instructions (including Microsoft Word and Latex 
templates) are available on the conference website. Briefly, submitted 
papers should be 8 pages, two columns, 10-point Times Roman (or 
equivalent), and "US letter" page-size.

Posters and demo descriptions
Complete formatting instructions (including Microsoft Word and Latex 
templates) are available on the conference website. Briefly, submitted 
papers should be 2 pages, two columns, 10-point Times Roman (or 
equivalent), and "US letter" page-size.


ABOUT THE VENUE

The conference will be held in the beautiful Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach 
& Marina Hotel, which is only 7 miles (11.2 km) away from the Los 
Angeles International Airport (LAX). The location is only steps from the 
Redondo Beach and the bike path that runs along the South Bay in Los 
Angeles. Also within walking distance is a marina that offers 
opportunities for fishing, sailing, and free outdoor concerts.  The 
marina has many restaurants, a water park, and seal flocks.

K-CAP 2009 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair: Yolanda Gil, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
Program Chair: Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA
Workshops and Tutorials Chair:  Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
Technology Chair: Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA

K-CAP 2009 PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, US)
Harith Alani (University of Southampton, UK)
Cecilia Aragon (Lawrence Berkeley Lab, US)
Lora Aroyo (Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Ken Barker (University of Texas, US)
Joachim Baumeister (University of Würzburg, Germany)
Bettina Berendt (K.U.Leuven, Germany)
Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Germany)
Mark Burstein (BBN, US)
Vinay Chaudhri (SRI International, US)
Philipp Cimiano (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Peter Clark (Boeing, US)
Oscar Corcho (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain)
Martin Dzbor (KMi, Open University, UK)
James Fan (IBM Research, US)
George Ferguson (University of Rochester, US)
Ken Forbus (Northwestern University, US)
Aldo Gangemi (Italian National Research Council, Italy)
John Gennari (University of Washington, US)
Asun Gomez-Perez (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain)
Mark Greaves (Vulcan, US)
Bettina Hoser (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Jane Hunter (The University of Queensland, Australia)
Robert Jaeschke (University of Kassel, Germany)
Jihie Kim (USC/ISI, US)
Ross King (University of Wales at Aberystwyth, UK)
Tolga Konik (Stanford University, US)
Rob Kremer (University of Calgary, Canada)
Ugur Kuter (University of Maryland, College Park, US)
Juergen Lerner (University of Konstanz, Germany)
James Lester (North Carolina State University, US)
Henry Lieberman (MIT Media Laboratory, US)
Peter Mika (Yahoo, Spain)
Vibhu Mittal (Google, US)
Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan)
Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK)
Claudia Müller (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Mark Musen (Stanford University, US)
Karen Myers (SRI International, US)
Tomas Nordlander (University College Cork, Ireland)
Tim Oates (University of Maryland Baltimore County, US)
Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK)
Charles Rich (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US)
Harald Sack (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Gianni Semeraro (University of Bari, Italy)
Jude Shavlik (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US)
Candy Sidner (BAE Systems, US)
Richard Sproat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)
Markus Strohmaier (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Gerd Stumme (University of Kassel, Germany)
Prasad Tadepalli (Oregon State University, US)
Valentina Tamma (University of Liverpool, UK)
Dan Tecuci (University of Texas, US)
Annette ten Teije (Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Bob Wielinga (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Michael Witbrock (Cycorp, US)
Peter Yeh (Accenture, US)

K-CAP STEERING COMMITTEE

Peter Clark (Boeing Company)
Ken Forbus (Northwestern University)
Yolanda Gil (USC)
Rob Kremer (University of Calgary)
Mark Musen (Stanford University)
Jude Shavlik (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
Derek Sleeman (University of Aberdeen)