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cse.unsw.edu.au>Call for Papers PKAW 2000: The 2000 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop Venue: Holiday Inn, Coogee Beach, Sydney, Australia Date : Sydney, December 11-13, 2000 Co-located with ALT 2000 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~achim/PKAW2000 Paper submission DEADLINE: 28 August 2000. Contents Introduction Topics of Interest Participation and Submission of Papers Important Dates Instructions for Paper Submission Workshop Organisers Program Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introduction The objective of this workshop is to assemble theoreticians and practitioners concerned with developing methods and systems that assist the knowledge acquisition process and assessing the suitability of such methods. Thus, the workshop includes all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and their role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems. Knowledge acquisition still remains the bottleneck for building a knowledge based system. Reuse and sharing of knowledge bases are major issues and no satisfactory solutions have been agreed upon yet. There is a wide range of research. Much of the work in this field has been knowledge acquisition from human experts. The advent of the age of digital information has brought the problem of data overload. Our ability to analyze and understand massive datasets lags far behind our ability to gather and store the data. A new generation of computational techniques and tools is required to support the acquisition of useful knowledge from the rapidly growing volume of data. All of these are to be discussed in this workshop. This workshop offers an opportunity to draw together both aspects of dealing with the situated nature of human knowledge and expertise and of developing methods that depend more on their algorithmic adequacy than on the expertise of the knowledge engineer. Topics of Interest Papers are invited in all aspects of knowledge acquisition for knowledge-based systems, including (but not restricted to): * Fundamental views on knowledge that affect the knowledge acquisition process and the use of knowledge in knowledge engineering * Algorithmic approaches to knowledge acquisition * Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition, knowledge maintenance and knowledge validation * Evaluation of knowledge acquisition techniques, tools and methods * Knowledge acquisition, machine learning and knowledge discovery * Languages and frameworks for knowledge and knowledge modeling * Integration of knowledge acquisition techniques with wider information systems or decision support systems * Methods and techniques for sharing and reusing knowledge * Distributed knowledge acquisition through infrastructures such as the Internet Participation and Submission of Papers Despite the more open nature of this workshop the major goal remains to encourage vigorous interaction and exchange of ideas. Consequently, the workshop participation will be kept small - less than 40 participants. Persons not submitting papers can also request to participate. Authors are invited to formulate an issue that would be useful to discuss. Software demonstrations related to presented papers are also encouraged. The submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings and distributed at the workshop as well as on the WWW. Authors will retain copyright of their papers. For more information about the workshop, please contact the Workshop Chairs. Important Dates * Papers due by: August 28, 2000 * Notification of Acceptance: October 20, 2000 * Camera-ready version of Final paper due: November 20, 2000 * Date of Workshop: December 11-13, 2000 Instructions for Paper Submission Papers describing original research or practical experiences from building knowledge-based systems should be submitted in Postscript or pdf format. We expect papers to be between 10 and 20 pages of length. They should be printed in 12pt font for normal text. The text area should be 22cm x 16cm and centered on each page. For submission, authors should send an e-mail to Achim Hoffmann with the paper title, name of all authors and a URL from which the paper can be accessed. The subject should be: "PKAW2000 submission". The e-mail must be received by 28 August 2000. Workshop and Program Committee Chairs: Paul Compton (University of New South Wales, Australia) E-mail: comptonMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
let.uu.nl>CALL FOR PAPERS GOING ROMANCE 2000 Fourteenth Symposium on Romance Linguistics Utrecht University, November 30 - December 1 Utrecht Institute of Linguistics - OTS (UiL - OTS) Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics (HIL) Invited speakers: Jean-Yves Pollock, Donka Farkas, Roberto Zamparelli Abstracts are invited for thirty minutes talks (with an additional ten minutes for discussion) in all areas of Romance linguistics from all theoretical perspectives. Abstracts should be anonymous, and should be no longer than two pages including references and examples, with margins of at least 1-inch, letter size 11/12. Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author. Please provide 7 anonymous abstracts and one camera-ready original containing title, authors name and affiliation. Submissions per e-mail or fax will not be accepted. A separate card should contain the title of the paper, authors name, affiliation, address, telephone number and e-mail address. All authors who present their work at the conference will be invited to publish their papers in the Proceedings Volume, for which we already have an initial agreement with a publisher. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: September 22, 2000 Abstracts should be sent to the following address: Going Romance 2000 Phone: 31-30-2536006 Utrecht Institute of Linguistics - OTS Fax: 31-30-2536000 Utrecht University E-mail: going.romanceMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue