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K-CAP 2021
The Eleventh International Conference on Knowledge
December 2 - 3, 2021
A virtual conference
https://www.k-cap.org/2021/
*Call for Papers*
The massive quantity and increasing availability of information
on the Web have catalyzed research in a wide range of fields.
Today's data-driven world, however, needs more than an abundance
of information, and there is a broadening focus on information
quality and accuracy. Given the increasing demand for higher
quality, accurate information that can be effectively and
unambiguously used, the study of precise and scalable knowledge
capture is of crucial importance. Knowledge capture involves the
extraction of useful knowledge from multiple, potentially
heterogeneous sources, as well as its acquisition directly from
human experts.
The International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP, is a
forum that brings together members of disparate research
communities who are interested in efficiently and precisely
capturing knowledge from a variety of heterogeneous sources, and
in creating representations that can be useful for automated
reasoning, analysis, and other forms of machine processing, as
well as to support users in knowledge-intensive collaborative
tasks.
To discuss and advance the goals of scalable and precise
knowledge capture, K-CAP 2021 aims to attract researchers from
diverse areas of artificial intelligence, including knowledge
representation and reasoning, knowledge acquisition, semantic
web, intelligent user interfaces for knowledge acquisition and
retrieval, query processing and question answering over
heterogeneous knowledge bases, novel evaluation paradigms,
problem-solving and reasoning, agents, information extraction
from structured or unstructured data, machine learning and
representation learning, information enrichment and
visualization, as well as researchers interested in
cyber-infrastructures to foster the publication, retrieval,
reuse, and integration of data.
*Topics of interest*
- Knowledge acquisition
- Knowledge authoring
- Knowledge extraction
- Knowledge management
- Knowledge publication
- Knowledge capture from multimodal data, e.g., text, audio,
visual
- Knowledge capture for the Semantic Web and the Web of
Linked Data
- Knowledge capture and enrichment in specific domains such
as earth and life sciences
- Knowledge capture and Interoperability with existing
Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Wikidata, DBpedia)
- Entity linking and resolution using target Knowledge (e.g.
Wikidata, DBpedia)
- Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge
management and acquisition
- Crowdsourcing for knowledge capture and refinement
- Handling bias in knowledge capture
- Knowledge capture from social environments and contexts
- Problem-solving knowledge and methods
- Knowledge-based markup techniques
- Modeling methodologies for ontologies and knowledge graphs
- Narrative intelligence
- Knowledge capture through storytelling
- Provenance and trust issues in knowledge intensive systems
- Services and applications that enable or utilize data
capture techniques
- Semantic search and query enrichment
- Knowledge engineering and knowledge governance
- Ontology design patterns
- Similarity measurement and analogy-based reasoning
- Extracting knowledge graphs from
unstructured/semi-structured and multimedia data
- Summarization techniques for knowledge graphs
- Visualization of knowledge graphs and visual query
interfaces
- Services and API for knowledge graphs
- Addressing scalability issues for distributed knowledge
graphs
- Automated construction, enrichment and cleaning of
knowledge graphs and alignment to existing graphs
- Hybrid approaches for knowledge capture combining
knowledge engineering and machine learning
- Data dynamicity, heterogeneity, and decay in knowledge
intensive systems
*Submissions*
The eleventh International Conference on Knowledge Capture,
K-CAP 2021, features a full papers track for research papers, as
well as tracks for short papers, for visionary ideas, and for
demos.
- Full papers, which describe original research, can be up to 8
pages long including references. Full papers will appear in the
conference proceedings and will be citable as K-CAP 2021
publications;
- Short papers, which may describe (possibly preliminary or
open-ended) research, applications (academic, industrial or
otherwise), and late breaking results, can be up to 4 pages
long, including references. Short papers will also appear in the
conference proceedings and will be citable as K-CAP 2021
publications;
- Visionary papers, which describe outrageous ideas or
potentially preliminary, but highly innovative research, can be
up to 2 pages long, including references. Visionary papers will
be presented as short talks in the conference program;
- Demo papers, which exemplify applications or illustrate work
presented in other submissions, can be up to 4 pages long,
including references. Demos will be presented as short talks in
the conference program.
Authors of all paper types will present their work in plenary
sessions during the conference. Presentation timing for the
different types of papers will be announced once the program is
crafted.
K-CAP is not a double-blind conference, hence authors should
list their names and affiliations on the submission. Please use
the ACM 2 column SIG Conference Proceedings template for your
submission. Submissions in HTML format are welcome, so long as
authors of HTML submissions also provide a conversion of their
submission to a PDF file that adheres to the required ACM
template for proceedings. Papers submitted to the main
conference track should not have been published before in an
archival venue, or currently be under review in an archival
venue. Authors are welcome to submit papers that have been
published as a preprint on arXiv, or in a non-archival venue
like a workshop.
All submissions to K-CAP should be made through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kcap21
This year we will embrace the FAIR principles by collecting
structured metadata of the datasets, software, ontologies and
methods generated by K-CAP submissions. Authors will be
encouraged to add these resources in the EasyChair submission
form (together with a brief description). Accepted papers with
resources will be highlighted in the main K-CAP conference page.
*Important Dates*
- Paper submission: September 15, 2021
- Author notification: October 13, 2021
- Camera ready version due: October 25, 2021
- Conference dates: December 2-3, 2021
All deadlines are midnight AoE (Anywhere on Earth).