AKBC 2016 - 5th Workshop on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC)

5th Workshop on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC) at NAACL 2016
June 17, 2016, San Diego, California
http://www.akbc.ws
Knowledge Base Construction
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Extracting knowledge from Web pages, and integrating it into a coherent knowledge base (KB) is a task that spans the areas of natural language processing, information extraction, information integration, databases, search, and machine learning. Recent years have seen significant advances here, both in academia and in the industry. Most prominently, all major search engine providers (Yahoo!, Microsoft Bing, and Google) nowadays experiment with semantic KBs. Our workshop serves as a forum for researchers on knowledge base construction in both academia and industry.
Unlike many other workshops, our workshop puts less emphasis on conventional paper submissions and presentations, but more on visionary papers and discussions. In addition, one of its unique characteristics is that it is centered on keynotes by high-profile speakers. AKBC 2010, AKBC 2012, AKBC 2013 and AKBC 2014 each had a dozen invited talks from leaders in this area from academia, industry, and government agencies. We had senior invited speakers from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, several leading universities (MIT, Stanford, University of Washington, CMU, University of Massachusetts, and more), and DARPA. With this year’s workshop, we aim to resume this positive experience. By established researchers for keynotes, and by focusing particularly on vision paper submissions, we aim to provide a vivid forum of discussion about the field of automated knowledge base construction.
Call For Papers
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We welcome papers documenting previously unpublished research; ongoing and exciting preliminary work is perfectly fine. We are particularly interested in visionary paper submissions. We aim for papers that express intriguing and promising ideas -- focusing less on where science is today and more on where it should go tomorrow.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
machine learning on text; unsupervised, lightly-supervised and distantly-supervised learning; learning from naturally-available data
human-computer collaboration in knowledge base construction; automated population of wikis
inference for graphical models and structured prediction; scalable approximate inference
information extraction; open information extraction, named entity extraction; ontology construction
entity resolution, relation extraction, information integration; schema alignment; ontology alignment; monolingual alignment, alignment between knowledge bases and text
pattern analysis, semantic analysis of natural language, reading the web, learning by reading
databases; distributed information systems; probabilistic databases
scalable computation; distributed computation
queries on mixtures of structured and unstructured data; querying under uncertainty
dynamic data, online/on-the-fly adaptation of knowledge
languages, toolkits and systems for automated knowledge base construction
demonstrations of existing automatically-built knowledge bases
Invited Talks
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Antoine Bordes (Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research)
William Cohen (Carnegie Mellon University)
Benjamin van Durme (Johns Hopkins University)
Oren Etzioni (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
Percy Liang (Stanford University)
Chris Manning (Stanford University)
Andrew McCallum (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Sebastian Riedel (University College London)
Kristina Toutanova (Microsoft Research)
Phil Blunsom (Google DeepMind / University of Oxford, yet to confirm)
Submission
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Please format your papers using the standard NAACL style files (http://naacl.org/naacl-pubs/), and restrict it to 4 pages (excluding references). Since the reviewing will not be double-blind, please include author information. All accepted papers will be presented as posters, with exceptional submissions also presented as oral talks.
Style files: http://naacl.org/naacl-pubs/
Submission site: https://www.softconf.com/naacl2016/AKBC2016/
Important Dates
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Submission Due: February 25, 2016
Notification: March 20, 2016
Camera-ready Due: March 30, 2016
Workshop: June 17, 2016
Deadlines are at 11:59pm PDT and subject to change.
Organizers
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Jay Pujara, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Danqi Chen, Stanford University, USA
Tim Rocktäschel, University College London, UK
Sameer Singh, University of Washington, USA
For any questions, please mail info-AT-akbc.ws
Our workshop highly values the open exchange of ideas, the freedom of thought and expression, and respectful scientific debate. We support and uphold the NAACL Anti-Harassment policy (http://naacl.org/policies/anti-harassment.html), and any workshop participant should feel free to contact any of the NAACL Board members (http://naacl.org/officers/) or Priscilla Rasmussen, in case of any issues.