[DL] Call for short papers: K-CAP 2015 - The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Capture, 7-10 October, Palisades, NY

[Tania Tudorache]

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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****    SHORT PAPERS (POSTERS) AND DEMOS -- DUE AUGUST 1, 2015    ****
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Short papers may be a maximum of 4 pages, including references. Short 
papers
will appear in the conference proceedings and will be citable as K-CAP 2015
publications. Authors will present their work as physical posters on 
standing
poster boards during the conference Poster Session from 6pm-9pm on Friday,
October 9, 2015. Accompanying demos illustrating the work presented in the
posters are specially welcome and encouraged. There will also be a "Poster
Madness" session in the plenary hall on Friday afternoon, where authors 
will
make a short presentation advertising their poster.

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 8, 2015
   posters: August 1, 2015

Notifications
   full papers: July 15, 2015
   posters: August 15, 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)


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.


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 Tarrytown Station, 
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.


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
   Ontologies and Knowledge Capture
   Machine Reading
   Knowledge Capture and the Semantic Web/Web of Linked Data
   Knowledge Management
   Knowledge Publication
   Collaborative and Social Approaches to Knowledge
   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


Important Dates

   tutorial/workshop proposals: June 1, 2015
   full paper submissions: June 8, 2015
   paper acceptance notification: July 15, 2015
   poster submissions: August 1, 2015
   poster acceptance notification: August 15, 2015
   hotel reservation cutoff date: September 18, 2015

Contacts

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


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


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)


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