26.4061, Calls: Computational Ling, General Ling, Philosophy of Lang, Semantics/USA

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Subject: 26.4061, Calls: Computational Ling, General Ling, Philosophy of Lang, Semantics/USA

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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:27:43
From: Christian F. Hempelmann [ontology at tamuc.edu]
Subject: FLAIRS Knowledge-Based AI Track

Full Title: FLAIRS Knowledge-Based AI Track 

Date: 16-May-2016 - 18-May-2016
Location: Key Largo, Florida, USA 
Contact Person: Christian F. Hempelmann
Meeting Email: ontology at tamuc.edu
Web Site: http://www.tamuc.edu/academics/colleges/humanitiesSocialSciencesArts/departments/literatureLanguages/ostl/FLAIRS_knowledge-based_AI_track.aspx 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 16-Nov-2015 

Meeting Description:

The scope of the FLAIRS Knowledge-Based AI track includes research, proof-of-concept and industry applications in the area of knowledge-based AI, i.e. systems whose functionality is informed by computational knowledge resources (ontologies, lexicons, semantic networks and/or knowledge bases). While the knowledge-based AI is often juxtaposed to the statistics-based AI, we see the contrast as unnecessarily exclusionary, in that systems combining the intuitive directness of knowledge representation with the efficiency of statistical approximation have distinct advantages.

Program Committee:

Christian F. Hempelmann, Texas A&M University-Commerce, ontology at tamuc.edu
Elena Kozerenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, kozerenko at mail.ru
Gavin Matthews, NTENT.com, gmatthews at ntent.com
Leo Obrst, MITRE, lobrst at mitre.org
Max Petrenko, NTENT.com,mpetrenko at ntent.com
Victor Raskin, Purdue University, vraskin at purdue.edu
Julia M. Taylor, Purdue University, jtaylor1 at purdue.edu
Tony Veale, University College Dublin, tony.veale at ucd.ie
Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield & IHMC, Florida, y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk
Michael Witbrock, VP for Research, Cycorp, witbrock at gmail.com

Call for Papers:

Papers and contributions are encouraged for any work relating to Knowledge-Based AI. Topics of interest may include (but are in no way limited to):

- Ontologies
- Spreading activation networks
- Lexicon acquisition
- Knowledge integration
- Applications in knowledge-based AI
- Hybrid probabilistic/machine-learning & knowledge-based systems

Note: We invite original papers (i.e. work not previously submitted, in submission, or to be submitted to another conference during the reviewing process).

Submission Guidelines:

Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages (4 pages for a poster) and are due by November 16, 2015. For FLAIRS-29, the 2016 conference, the reviewing is a double blind process. Fake author names and affiliations must be used on submitted papers to provide double-blind reviewing. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can be accessed through the main conference web site (http://www.flairs-29.info/). Note: do not use a fake name for your EasyChair login - your EasyChair account information is hidden from reviewers. Authors should indicate the [your track name] special track for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution
  to AAAI. FLAIRS requires that there be at least one full author registration per paper.
Please, check the website http://www.flairs-29.info/ for further information.

Conference Proceedings:

Papers will be refereed and all accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, which will be published by AAAI Press.

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