Announcing K-CAP 2015: October in New York

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
K-CAP 2015
Location: 
Dolce Palisades, Palisades, NY, USA
Wednesday, 7 October 2015 to Saturday, 10 October 2015
State: 
New York
Country: 
USA
City: 
Palisades
Contact: 
Ken Barker
James Fan
Submission Deadline: 
Monday, 1 June 2015

K-CAP 2015

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

http://www.k-cap.org

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)

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 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.

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

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

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

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)