International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP)*

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The biennial International Conference On Knowledge Capture (K-CAP), formerly the Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (KAW) series ¹⁾, is providing a forum that brings together members of disparate research communities that are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources and in creating representations that can be useful for reasoning, analysis, and other forms of machine processing.

K-CAP is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Artificial (ACM SIGAI) among others.

K-CAP is held alternately with EKAW – the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management.

Of special “Knowledge Management” interest:

• Workshops
  • 2007: Knowledge Management and Semantic Web for Engineering Design
  • 2003: Knowledge Management and the Semantic Web
• Sessions:
  • 1999: Knowledge Management and Knowledge Distribution throughout the Internet (plenary); Knowledge Management (parallel)
  • 1998: Knowledge management and knowledge distribution through the Internet (parallel)

Conference History:

11th K-CAP 2021, December 2-3, 2021, Virtual venue
(Chair: Space and Time for Knowledge Organization (STKO) Lab, Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara; Sponsor: Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence)

Program TBD

10th K-CAP 2019, November 19-22, 2019, Marina del Rey, California, United States
Special Conference Theme: Multi-modal Knowledge Capture in the Age of Big Web Data
(Chair: University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Center on Knowledge Graphs; Sponsor: Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence)

Pre-conference Workshops: (Nov 19)
Third International Workshop on Capturing Scientific Knowledge; The Second International Workshop on Hybrid Question Answering with Structured and Unstructured Knowledge (HQA’19)

Pre-conference Tutorials: (Nov 19)
Hybrid Techniques for Knowledge-based NLP – Knowledge Graphs meet Machine Learning and all their friends; Linking, Extending, Exploiting and Enhancing Tabular Data with Wikidata; Build a large-scale cross-lingual text search engine from scratch

Conference Sessions:
Named Entity Recognition and Embedding; Ontology Development and Alignment; Multimodal Knowledge Capture; Knowledge Graph Completion, Link Prediction and Multilinguality; Applications: Visualization, Question Answering and Open Science; Planning and Queries

Invited Talks:
Project Aristo: Towards Machines that Capture and Reason with Science; ConceptNet at Twenty: Reflections on structured common sense in an era of machine learning

9th K-CAP 2017, December 4-6, 2017, Austin, Texas, United States
Special Conference Theme: Knowledge Graphs from Heterogeneous Data
(Host: University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Knowledge Systems Research Group; Sponsor: Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence)

Pre-conference Workshops: (Dec 4)
1st International Workshop on Quality Engineering Meets Knowledge Graph (QEKGraph); 2nd International Workshop on Capturing Scientific Knowledge; Machine Reading

Pre-conference Tutorials: (Dec 4)
Semantic data mining for knowledge acquisition; DOing REusable MUSical data (DOREMUS); Hybrid techniques for knowledge-based NLP: Knowledge graphs meet machine learning and all their friends

Conference Tracks:
Research paper track; Application paper track; Short papers, vision papers, and late breaking results track (NEW)

Conference Sessions:
n.a.; Posters and Demos

Invited Talks:
Bootstrapping Cognitive Systems; Integrating Semantic Web in the Real World: A journey between two cities

8th K-CAP 2015, October 7-10, 2015, Palisades, New York, United States
(Host: ?; Sponsor: Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence)

Pre-conference Workshops: (Oct 7)
International Workshop on Linked Data Repair and Certification (CANCELLED); 1st International Workshop on Capturing Scientific Knowledge (SciKnow 2015)

Pre-conference Tutorials: (Oct 7)
Acquisition of Complex Logical Knowledge: Authoring, Assimilation, and Assembly; Knowledge Processing with Big Data and Semantic Web Technologies

Conference Sessions:
Knowledge Extraction from Text; Social Knowledge Capture and Crowdsourcing; K-CAP 2013; Knowledge Capture and Linked Data; Ontology Engineering; Knowledge Capture from Structured Sources; Ontology and Knowledge Base Learning; Poster Session

Invited Talks:
Goodbye to True: Advancing Semantics Beyond the Black and White; Linked Open Knowledge

7th K-CAP 2013, June 23-26, 2013, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Special Conference Theme: Knowledge Capture in the Age of Massive Web Data
(Host: University of Calgary, Department of Computer Science; Sponsor: Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence)

Pre-conference Workshops: (Jun 23)
1st International Workshop on Privacy in Semantic Technologies (PriSeT)

Pre-conference Tutorials: (Jun 23)
Reading the Web

Conference Sessions:
Research Sessions; Application Track Session; Posters and Demos

Panel Discussions:
Open Data, Linked Data – where are we and what are the main challenges – how important is semantics for this?

Invited talks:
n.a.

6th K-CAP 2011, June 26-29, 2011, Banff, Alberta, Canada
(Host: University of Calgary, Department of Computer Science; ; Sponsor: Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence; Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)

Pre-conference Workshops: 8jun 26)
Deep Knowledge Representation Challenge Workshop

Pre-conference Tutorials: (Jun 26)
Natural Language Generation and Natural Language Interfaces to Knowledge Bases; What Does Usability Mean for Knowledge Capture Projects

Conference Sessions:
Ontology Engineering; Evaluation and Quality Assessment; Ontology and Knowledge Base Learning; Information Extraction, RDF and Knowledge Capture; Multimedia, Wikipedia and Metadata; Posters & Demos

Discussion Panels:
The Best and the Worst Things that Happened to Knowledge Capture with the Advent of the Semantic Web

Invited Talks:
Knowledge Capture through the Millennia: From Cuneiform to the Semantic Web; Design for Intelligence: AI and UI and the Intelligent User; Has ‘Knowledge’ been the driver?; Building Watson – A Brief Overview of DeepQA and the Jeopardy! Challenge; Let Me Tell You a Story…; In pursuit of knowledge: 25 years of knowledge acquisition

5th K-CAP 2009, September 1-4, 2009, Redondo Beach, California, United States
(Host: University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute; Sponsors: Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence; Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)

Pre-conference Workshops: (Sep 1)
Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup (SAAKM); Analyzing Social Media to Represent Collective Knowledge; Social Media Analysis; International Workshop on Collective Knowledge Capturing and Representation

Pre-conference Tutorials: (Sep 1)
Developing OWL Ontologies with Protege 4; Extreme Design (XD): Pattern-based Ontology Design

Conference Sessions:
Interactive systems; Ontologies and Vocabularies; Knowledge extraction; Analyzing knowledge and knowledge-based systems; Learning; Capturing workflows; Posters & Demos

Invited Talks:
Web Science: A New Frontier; Machine Reading: from Wikipedia to the Web;

4th K-CAP 2007, October 28-31, 2007, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
(Host: Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary; Sponsors: Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence; Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)

Pre-conference Workshops: (Oct 28)
Knowledge Management and Semantic Web for Engineering Design; Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup (SAAKM); International Workshop on Modular Ontologies; Knowledge Capture and Constraint Programming

Conference Sessions:
Acquisition of Problem Solving Knowledge; Knowledge Capture for Application Domains; Querying Knowledge; Knowledge Acquisition Applications; Text Analysis for Knowledge Acquisition; The Semantic Web; User Interfaces for Knowledge Capture; Poster Session

Invited Talks: (Knowledge Capture and The Web)
Human Computation; Everything I know I Learned from Google: Machine Reading of Web Text

3rd K-CAP 2005, October 23-25, 2005, Banff, Alberta, Canada
(Host: Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary; Sponsor: Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence)

Pre-conference Workshops: (Oct 2)
Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-learning; Ontology Management: Searching, Selection, Ranking, and Segmentation; Integrating Ontologies

Conference Sessions:
Information Extraction; Interactive Knowledge Capture; Ontologies and Knowledge Bases; Information Retrieval; Dialog and Elicitation; NLP: Knowledge Capture from Text; The Montagues and the Capulets: Part II
Poster Session

Panel Discussions:
n.a.

Invited Talks:
Speaking Informally…

2nd K-CAP 2003, October 23-26, 2003, Sanibel Island, Florida, United States
(Host: Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, University of West Florida; Sponsor: Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence)

Post-conference Workshops: (Oct 25-26)
Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation; Knowledge Management and the Semantic Web; Information Visualization in Knowledge Capture Technologies; Distributed and Collaborative Knowledge Capture; Capturing Knowledge from Domain Experts: Progress and Prospects

Conference Sessions:
n.a.

Panel Discussions:
Knowledge Acquisition Projects (Halo – aimed at building a “digital Aristotle”, Rapid Knowledge Formation (RKF), and Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT))

Invited Talks:
How Robot Baby Learns Meaningful Representations

Co-located Conferences:
2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003), Oct 20-23

1st K-CAP 2001, October 21-23, 2001, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
(Host: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia; Sponsor: Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence)

Post-conference Workshops: (Oct 21)
Knowledge in E-Business; Interactive Tools for Knowledge Capture; Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation

Post-conference Tutorials: (Oct 21)
The Semantic Web; Knowledge Engineering with CommonKADS in Perspective; Programming by Example

Conference Sessions:
Plenary Paper Session; Parallel Sessions

Invited Talks:
Knowledge Capture for Bootstrapping Intelligent Systems; ResearchIndex: Inside the World’s Largest Free Full-Text Index of Scientific Literature; Phenomenal Data Mining

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12th KAW 1999, October 16-21, 1999, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management
(Host: University of Calgary, Knowledge Systems Institute)

Plenary Sessions:
Cost Effective Development and Use of Ontologies and PSMs; Ontologies and Metadata for Knowledge Retrieval; Tools for Adding Domain Knowledge to a Knowledge Base; DARPA Initiative in Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Management and Knowledge Distribution throughout the Internet; Evaluation; Requirements Engineering (w. Panel Discussion)

Parallel Sessions:
Ontologies and PSMs; Agents; Tools; Requirements Engineering; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Retrieval; Evaluation; Poster and Demo Session

11th KAW 1998, April 18-23, 1998, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management
(Host: University of Calgary, Knowledge Systems Institute)

Plenary Sessions:
Sisyphus III; Shareable and reusable components for knowledge systems; Evaluation (w. Panel – Practicalities of Evaluation); Knowledge Acquisition

Parallel Sessions:
Shareable and reusable components for knowledge systems; Process support for knowledge acquisition: The quest for quidelines; Visual knowledge-modeling languages and environments (including knowledge modeling using conceptual graphs); Knowledge management and knowledge distribution through the Internet; Knowledge acquisition techniques (including KA from natural language); Agent-oriented approaches to knowledge engineering; Evaluation of knowledge-acquisition methodologies; Sisyphus IV knowledge-engineering studies; Poster and Demo Session

10th KAW 1996, November 9-14, 1996, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Banff Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop
(Host: University of Calgary, Knowledge Systems Institute)

Plenary Sessions:
Shareable and Reusable Ontologies; Shareable and Reusable Problem-solving Methods; Knowledge Modeling; Planning, Agents and Cognition; The Future of Knowledge Acquisition; Requirements Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Parallel Sessions:
Shareable and Reusable Problem-solving Methods; Shareable and Reusable Ontologies; Distributed Knowledge Modeling over the Internet; Knowledge Acquisition for Temporal Reasoning and Planning; Knowledge Acquisition from Natural Language; Corporate Memory and Enterprise Modeling; Agent-Oriented Approaches to Knowledge Engineering

9th KAW 1995, February 26-March 3, 1995, Banff, Alberta, Canada
AAAI-Sponsored Banff Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop
(Host: University of Calgary, Knowledge Systems Institute; Sponsor: American Association for Artificial Intelligence)

8th KAW 1994, January 30-February 4, 1994, Banff, Alberta, Canada
AAAI-sponsored Banff Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop
(Host: University of Calgary, Knowledge Systems Institute; Sponsor: American Association for Artificial Intelligence)

7th KAW 1992, Banff, Alberta, Canada
AAAI-Sponsored Banff Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop
(Host: University of Calgary, Knowledge Systems Institute; Sponsor: American Association for Artificial Intelligence)

6th KAW 1991, Banff, Alberta, Canada
AAAI-Sponsored Banff Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge Based Systems Workshop
(Host: University of Calgary, Knowledge Systems Institute; Sponsor: American Association for Artificial Intelligence)

5th KAW 1990, November 4-9, 1990, Banff, Alberta, Canada
AAAI-Sponsored Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop
(Host: University of Calgary, Knowledge Systems Institute; Sponsor: American Association for Artificial Intelligence)

4th KAW 1989, October 1–6, 1989, Banff, Alberta, Canada
AAAI-Sponsored Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop
(Host: University of Calgary, Knowledge Systems Institute; Sponsor: American Association for Artificial Intelligence)

3rd KAW 1988, November 1988, Banff, Alberta, Canada
AAAI-Sponsored Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop
(Host: University of Calgary, Knowledge Systems Institute; Sponsor: American Association for Artificial Intelligence)

2nd KAW 1987, October 1987, Banff, Alberta, Canada
AAAI-Sponsored Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop
(Host: University of Calgary, Knowledge Systems Institute; Sponsor: American Association for Artificial Intelligence)

1st KAW 1986, November 3-7, 1986, Banff, Alberta, Canada
AAAI-Sponsored Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop
(Host: University of Calgary, Knowledge Systems Institute; Sponsor: American Association for Artificial Intelligence)

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