LINGUIST List 11.1770

Thu Aug 17 2000

Calls: Lang Documentation, Knowledge Acquistion

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Steven Bird, Web-Based Language Documentation and Description
2. Achim Hoffmann, PKAW2000: Submission deadline approaching soon

		 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (2nd call)


	 Web-Based Language Documentation and Description

		Philadelphia USA, 12-15 December 2000

	 Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
		 University of Pennsylvania

 Organizers: Steven Bird (U Penn) and Gary Simons (SIL International)


This workshop will lay the foundation of an open, web-based
infrastructure for collecting, storing and disseminating the primary
materials which document and describe human languages, including
wordlists, lexicons, annotated signals, interlinear texts, paradigms,
field notes, and linguistic descriptions, as well as the metadata
which indexes and classifies these materials. The infrastructure will
support the modeling, creation, archiving and access of these
materials, using centralized respositories of metadata, data, best
practice guidelines, and open software tools.

Abstract deadline:	Friday 1 September
Full CFP:		http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/exploration/CFP
FAQ:			http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/exploration/FAQ

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Steven Bird Gary Simons
University of Pennsylvania SIL International
Steven.Birdldc.upenn.edu Gary_Simonssil.org
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sb http://www.sil.org/SIL/roster/simons.htm

Guest Speakers: Brian Gaines and Mildred Shaw

Selected papers from PKAW2000 are planned to be invited
for an edited volume on knowledge acquisition to be published
in 2001. Negotiations with scientific publishers are underway.




 2nd 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)




Registration Fees: Regular: AUS $ 400 
 Student: AUS $ 200

Registration fee includes proceedings, coffee and meals during the workshop.



Paper submission DEADLINE: 28 August 2000.

(Send email with the URL of your paper.)




Contents

 Introduction
 Topics of Interest
 Participation and Submission of Papers
 Important Dates
 Instructions for Paper Submission
 Workshop Organisers
 Program Committee

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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: comptoncse.unsw.edu.au
 Achim Hoffmann (University of New South Wales, Australia)
 E-mail: achimcse.unsw.edu.au
 Hiroshi Motoda (Osaka University, Japan)
 E-mail: motodaar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp
 Takahira Yamaguchi (Shizuoka University, Japan)
 E-mail: yamagutics.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp


Program Committee

 Richard Benjamins (Intelligent Software Components, S.A., Spain)
 Ghassan Beydoun (University of New South Wales, Australia)
 Bob Colomb (University of Queensland, Australia)
 John Debenham (CSIRO and University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
 Rose Dieng (INRIA, France)
 Dieter Fensel (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
 Udo Hahn (Freiburg University, Germany)
 Noriaki Izumi (Shizuoka University, Japan)
 Byeong Kang (University of Tasmania, Australia)
 Hideto Kazawa (NTT, Japan)
 Yasuhiko Kitamura (Osaka City University, Japan)
 Rob Kremer (University of Calgary, Canada)
 Huan Liu (Arizona State University, USA)
 Maria Lee (CSIRO, Australia)
 Rodrigo Martinez (University of Murcia, Spain)
 Tim Menzies (NASA, USA)
 Toshiro Minami (Kyushu University & Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Japan)
 Enrico Motta (Open University, UK)
 Frank Puppe (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
 Ulrich Reimer (Suisse Life, Switzerland)
 Debbie Richards (Macquarie University, Australia)
 Shusaku Tsumoto (Shimane Medical University, Japan)
 Seiji Yamada (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

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