AKBC 2019 1st Conference on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC)
May 20-22, 2019, Monday-Wednesday, Amherst, MA www: http://www.akbc.ws ; email: i...@akbc.ws Key dates - April 5, 2019, Friday: Early Registration Deadline - May 20-21, 2019, Monday-Tuesday: Conference, UMass Amherst - May 22, 2019, Wednesday: Workshops, UMass Amherst Knowledge Base Construction Knowledge gathering, representation, and reasoning are among the fundamental challenges of artificial intelligence. Large-scale repositories of knowledge about entities, relations, and their abstractions are known as “knowledge bases”. Most major technology companies now have substantial efforts in knowledge base construction, and related scholarly work spans many research areas, including machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, information integration, databases, search, data mining, knowledge representation, human computation, human-computer interfaces, and fairness. The AKBC conference serves as a research forum for all these areas, in both academia and industry. New Conference Nearly ten years after the first AKBC workshop in Grenoble, France, AKBC is becoming a conference. Why a new stand-alone conference? - Long-standing and growing interest in the area, now with too much material for a one-day workshop. We have sufficient material for a two-day conference plus topical workshops. - We want to grow and connect the community beyond existing individual conference communities, bringing together ML, NLP, DB, IR, KRR, semantics, reasoning, common sense, QA, human computation, dialog, HCI. - We want to set our own culture, including reviewing practices, and meeting format. We have fond memories of the first AKBC 2010 in Grenoble: a two-day meeting that included an afternoon hike in the Alps with much great scientific discussion. - Why now? Growing interest across many areas. Disconnect among multiple relevant communities. Growing industry and government interest. Program The program consists of 13 invited talks, oral and poster presentations of submitted papers, as well as a day of workshops. A list of accepted conference papers can be found here: https://openreview.net/group?id=AKBC.ws/2019/Conference Invited Talks - Waleed Ammar <https://allenai.org/team/waleeda/> (AI2) - Danqi Chen <https://cs.stanford.edu/~danqi/> (Princeton) - Yejin Choi <https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yejin/> (UW, AI2) - Laura Dietz <http://www.cs.unh.edu/~dietz/> (UNH) - Lise Getoor <https://getoor.soe.ucsc.edu/home> (UCSC) - Alexandra Meliou <https://people.cs.umass.edu/~ameli/> (UMass) - Fernando Pereira <https://ai.google/research/people/author1092> (Google) - Hoifung Poon <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/hoifung/> (MSR) - Chris Re <https://cs.stanford.edu/people/chrismre/> (Stanford and Apple) - Sebastian Riedel <http://www.riedelcastro.org/> (UCL and Facebook) - Guy Van den Broeck <http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~guyvdb/> (UCLA) - Claudia Wagner <http://www.claudiawagner.info/> (Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences) - Chris Welty <https://ai.google/research/people/104789> (Google) Registration Conference registration is possible via https://umass.irisregistration.com/Home/Site?code=AKBC for rates between 250 and 450 USD, which includes a banquet dinner and social event ticket, among other things. Early registration is open until 5 April, hotel rooms reserved for participants are held until 21 April. More information on registration and visa applications can be found here: http://www.akbc.ws/2019/registration/. Call for Workshop Participation In addition to the two-day conference program, we will have a one-day collection of workshops on focused topics. Rather than accepting disjoint workshop proposals, this year we will have a community-driven process for devising workshop topics and organizers. Please visit http://www.akbc.ws/2019/workshops/ for more details. Current workshops are: - Neural and Symbolic Representation and Reasoning <https://sites.google.com/view/nsrr-akbc19> - Scientific Literature Knowledge Bases <https://sites.google.com/view/akbc-sci/home> - Knowledge Bases and Multiple Modalities <https://kb-mm.github.io/> Workshops accept abstract and paper submissions with deadlines in early April. Please check the individual workshop websites for further details. Organizers General Chair Andrew McCallum <https://people.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum/>, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Program Co-chair Isabelle Augenstein <http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/>, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Program Co-chair Sameer Singh <http://sameersingh.org/>, University of California Irvine, USA Workshop Co-chair Xiang Ren <http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~xiangren/>, USC, USA Workshop Co-chair Partha Pratim Talukdar <http://talukdar.net/>, IISc, Bangalore, India Funding Chair Sebastian Riedel <http://www.riedelcastro.org/>, University College London, UK Local Co-chair Ari Kobren <https://akobre01.github.io/>, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Local Co-chair Nicholas Monath <https://people.cs.umass.edu/~nmonath/>, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Area Chairs Lora Aroyo Kai-Wei Chang Luna Dong Matt Gardner Paul Groth Hannaneh Hajishirzi Roman Klinger Max Nickel Jay Pujara Siva Reddy Tim Rocktäschel Sunita Sarawagi Michael Wick Luke Zettlemoyer Questions? Please mail i...@akbc.ws. -- Sameer Singh Assistant Professor, Computer Science University of California, Irvine http://sameersingh.org/
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