[Corpora-List] CFP: 3rd Workshop in Automatic Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC) at CIKM 2013

[Sebastian Riedel]

AKBC 2013
Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC) 2013: The 3rd Workshop on
Knowledge Extraction at CIKM 2013

October 27-28, 2013, San Francisco, USA
http://www.akbc.ws

Knowledge Base Construction
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The advances in information extraction, machine learning, and natural
language processing have led to the creation of large knowledge bases
(KBs) from Web sources. Notable endeavors in this direction include
Wikipedia-based approaches (such as YAGO, DBpedia, and Freebase),
systems that extract from the entire Web (such as NELL and PROSPERA)
or from specific domains (such as Rexa), and open information
extraction approaches (TextRunner, PRISMATIC). This trend has led to
new applications that make use of semantics. Most prominently, all
major search engine providers (Yahoo!, Microsoft Bing, and Google)
nowadays experiment with semantic tools. The Semantic Web, too,
benefits from the new approaches.

With this year’s workshop, we would like to resume the positive
experiences from two previous workshops: AKBC-2010
(http://akbc.xrce.xerox.com/) and AKBC-WEKEX-2012
(http://akbcwekex2012.wordpress.com/). The AKBC-2013 workshop will
serve as a forum for researchers working in the area of automated
knowledge harvesting from text. By having invited talks by leading
researchers from industry, academia, and the government, and by
focusing particularly on vision papers, we aim to provide a vivid
forum of discussion about the field of automated knowledge base
construction.

Call For Papers
============
We welcome papers documenting previously unpublished research; ongoing
and exciting preliminary work is perfectly fine. We are particularly
interested in visionary paper submissions. We aim for papers that
express intriguing and promising ideas -- focusing less on where
science is today and more on where it should go tomorrow.

Topic of interest include, but are not limited to:

* information integration; schema alignment; ontology alignment;
ontology construction
* monolingual alignment, alignment between knowledge bases and text
* joint inference between text interpretation and knowledge base
* pattern and semantic analysis of natural language, reading the web,
learning by reading
* scalable computation; distributed computation; probabilistic databases
* information retrieval; search on mixtures of structured and unstructured data
* machine learning; unsupervised, lightly-supervised and
distantly-supervised learning; learning from naturally-available data
* human-computer collaboration in KB construction; automated population of wikis
* dynamic data, online/on-the-fly adaptation of knowledge
* inference; scalable approximate inference
* languages, toolkits and systems for automated knowledge base construction
* demonstrations of existing automatically-built knowledge bases

Important Dates
=============
Submission Due: June 21, 2013 (23:59 PDT, UTC-7)
Acceptance Notification: July 22, 2013
Camera-ready Due: August 11, 2013
Workshop: October 27-28, 2013

Submission Information
===================
Please format your papers using the standard ACM SIG Proceedings
format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) as
used by CIKM 2013, and restrict it to 4 pages (excluding references).
All accepted papers will be presented as posters. Additionally, the
top 3 papers as determined by the PC will also be presented in an oral
session. Authors will reserve the right to republish their AKBC papers
at a future venue.

We shall use OpenReview.net for paper submission and reviewing. Please
submit your papers as indicated on http://www.akbc.ws

Invited Talks
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* Bonnie Dorr, DARPA, USA (tentative)
* Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Google Research, USA
* Alon Halevy, Google Research, USA
* Chris Manning, Stanford University, USA
* James Mayfield, Johns Hopkins University, USA
* Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
* Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Dan Weld, University of Washington, USA
* Gerhard Weikum, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany (tentative)
* Haixun Wang, Microsoft Research
* more coming ...

Organizing Committee
==================
* Fabian M. Suchanek, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
* Sebastian Riedel, University College London, UK
* Sameer Singh, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
* Partha Pratim Talukdar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Program Committee
================
* Doug Downey (Northwestern University)
* Matt Gardner (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Rainer Gemulla (Max-Planck Institute for Informatics)
* Estevam Hruschka (Federal University of Sao Carlos)
* Jayant Krishnamurthy (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Zornitsa Kozareva (University of Southern California)
* Sebastian Michel (Max-Planck Institute for Informatics)
* Bhavana Dalvi Mishra (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Marius Pasca (Google Research)
* Alan Ritter (University of Washington)
* Ralf Schenkel (Max-Planck Institute for Informatics)
* Gerhard Weikum (Max-Planck Institute for Informatics)
* Michael Wick (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
* Derry Wijaya (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Limin Yao (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

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