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<h1>K-CAP 2015</h1>
<em>The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Capture</em><br>
<em>October 7-10, 2015, Dolce Palisades, Palisades, NY, USA</em><br>
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<a href="http://www.k-cap2015.org">http://www.k-cap2015.org</a> <br>
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<h2>At-a-Glance</h2>
<h4>Conference Dates</h4>
<ul>
<li>Workshops/tutorials: Wednesday, October 7, 2015</li>
<li>Plenary sessions: Thursday, October 8, 2015 - Saturday,
October 10, 2015</li>
</ul>
<h4>Submissions</h4>
<ul>
<li>Full papers: June 1, 2015</li>
<li>Posters: August 1, 2015 </li>
</ul>
<h4>Venue and Hotel</h4>
<ul>
<li>Dolce Palisades, Palisades, NY</li>
<li>Hotel reservation cutoff date: September 18, 2015</li>
</ul>
<h4>Airports</h4>
<ul>
<li>New York John F. Kennedy (JFK)</li>
<li>New York LaGuardia (LGA)</li>
<li>Newark (EWR)</li>
<li>Westchester (HPN)</li>
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<h2>Announcement</h2>
<p>In today's information-centric world, effective access to and use
of knowledge is a key enabler for progress. Driven by the demands
for intelligent applications and the explosion of information on
the Web, the study of Knowledge Capture is crucially important.
Knowledge Capture is the extraction of useful knowledge from
diverse sources: unstructured information sources, semi-structured
and structured data sources, knowledge graphs and directly from
crowds and individuals, either through observation or implicit or
explicit elicitation.</p>
<p>The wealth of information available from such a variety of
sources calls for new methods of Knowledge Capture that draw both
from traditional knowledge acquisition techniques and from more
data-driven techniques such as large-scale data mining,
statistical analysis and data analytics.</p>
<p>Researchers and practitioners who work in the area of Knowledge
Capture traditionally participate in several distinct communities,
including Knowledge Engineering, Machine Learning, Natural
Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial
Inteligence and the Semantic Web. K-CAP 2015 will provide a forum
to bring together members of disparate research communities who
are interested in all aspects of capturing knowledge from a
variety of sources, as well as those interested in creating
representations that can be useful for reasoning, analysis, and
other forms of machine processing.</p>
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<h2>Venue</h2>
<p>This year's K-CAP conference will be held at the Dolce Palisades
Hotel and Conference Center, just outside New York City. The Dolce
Palisades is within 30 miles of the NYC airports: John F. Kennedy
(JFK), LaGuardia (LGA), Newark (EWR) and Westchester (HPN). The
venue is minutes by car to the Metro North train with service to
Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan.</p>
<p>K-CAP 2015 is also conveniently close in time and space to this
year's International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015) at Lehigh
University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Although the two
conferences are not quite "co-located", those at K-CAP 2015 can
easily attend the last K-CAP plenary session, have their free
K-CAP lunch and make it to Bethlehem to check in prior to the
first day of ISWC activities.</p>
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<h2>Call for Submissions</h2>
<p>We solicit high-quality research and application papers for
publication and presentation at the K-CAP 2015 conference.
Submissions are welcome that address any area of Knowledge
Capture, including (but not limited to):</p>
<ul>
<li>Knowledge Acquisition / Capture</li>
<li>Knowledge Extraction from Text</li>
<li>Knowledge Extraction from Structured Sources</li>
<li>Knowledge Authoring</li>
<li>Knowledge Discovery</li>
<li>Knowledge Graph Construction (Curated, Automatic or Hybrid)</li>
<li>Human Computation for Knowledge Capture</li>
<li>Machine Reading</li>
<li>Knowledge Capture for or from the Semantic Web and the Web of
Linked Data</li>
<li>Knowledge Management</li>
<li>Knowledge Publication</li>
<li>Collaborative and Social Approaches to Knowledge Management
and Acquisition</li>
<li>Crowdsourcing for Knowledge Capture and Refinement</li>
<li>Knowledge Capture from Social Environments and Contexts</li>
<li>Mixed-Initiative Planning and Decision-Support</li>
<li>Problem-solving Knowledge and Methods</li>
<li>Knowledge-Based Markup Techniques</li>
<li>Knowledge Engineering and Modelling Methodologies</li>
<li>Narrative Intelligence</li>
<li>Knowledge Capture through Storytelling</li>
<li>Learning by Reading</li>
<li>Provenance and Trust Issues in Knowledge Intensive Systems</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Important Dates</h2>
<ul>
<li>tutorial/workshop proposals: May 1, 2015</li>
<li>full paper submissions: June 1, 2015</li>
<li>paper acceptance notification: July 15, 2015</li>
<li>poster submissions: August 1, 2015</li>
<li>hotel reservation cutoff date: September 18, 2015</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Contacts</h2>
<ul>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:info@k-cap.org">info@k-cap.org</a></li>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:kjbarker.work@gmail.com">kjbarker.work@gmail.com</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.k-cap.org">http://www.k-cap.org</a></li>
</ul>
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<h2>Organizing Committee</h2>
<ul>
<li>General Chair: Ken Barker</li>
<li>Program Chair: José Manuel Gómez Pérez</li>
<li>Workshop and Tutorials Chair: Raúl García Castro</li>
<li>Local Arrangements Chair: James Fan</li>
<li>Publicity Chair: Tania Tudorache</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Attendee Expenses</h2>
<p>The following estimated expenses are illustrative only and
subject to change. Please use the information to form a gross
estimate of your budget. All expenses in US dollars.</p>
<h4>Accommodation</h4>
<ul>
<li>$149/night ($165.95 after sales tax and occupancy tax) at
Dolce Palisades when using the booking code "K-CAP 2015
Knowledge Capture Conference" prior to September 20, 2015</li>
<li>includes overnight accommodations, full breakfast buffet,
unlimited local telephone calls, WiFi access, 800 and credit
card access calls, in-room coffee, and unlimited use of the
fitness center, swimming pool, tennis and volleyball facilities</li>
</ul>
<h4>Registration</h4>
<ul>
<li>$450 (student); $650 (regular member)</li>
<li>includes lunch buffet (all four days), continuous all day
breaks, WiFi access, reception (light food + beverage) the
evening of October 7, reception (light food + beverage) the
evening of October 9</li>
</ul>
<h4>Local Travel</h4>
<ul>
<li>One-way car service from NYC airports: $100 (1 person), $150
(2 people)</li>
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<h4>Meals</h4>
<ul>
<li>All lunches are included in conference registration fee;
breakfasts are included in hotel reservation; dinners will be at
the expense of attendees (we will provide a list of varied local
options with estimated costs)</li>
</ul>
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<h2>K-CAP Steering Committee</h2>
<ul>
<li>Derek Sleeman (Chair)</li>
<li>Ken Barker (Chair-Elect)</li>
<li>Mathieu d'Aquin</li>
<li>V. Richard Benjamins</li>
<li>Raúl García Castro</li>
<li>Oscar Corcho</li>
<li>Andrew Gordon</li>
<li>Mark Musen</li>
<li>Natasha Noy</li>
<li>José Manuel Gómez Pérez</li>
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