[Corpora-List] CFP: AAAI-05 Spring Symposium on Knowledge Collection from Volunteer Contributors

From: Rada Mihalcea (rada@cs.unt.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 13 2004 - 20:03:21 MET DST

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    C A L L F O R P A P E R S

    AAAI Spring Symposium 2005
    KNOWLEDGE COLLECTION FROM VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTORS

    http://teach-computers.org/kcvc05.html

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    This symposium is centered around the idea of collecting
    knowledge from large groups of volunteer contributors in
    a distributed environment.

    Many AI tasks depend on having large amounts of knowledge
    and data. There are knowledge bases to be constructed,
    corpora to be tagged, long training sessions, and so forth.
    Such resources are critical to our success, but building
    them can be difficult and time-consuming. What if we could
    farm out most of that work out to thousands of volunteers
    on the Internet?

    Collecting knowledge from volunteer contributors (unstructured
    or with contributors organized into tiers and classes) can
    potentially both enable new, more knowledge intensive approaches
    to the current open problems in many subfields of Artificial
    Intelligence and allow the field to tackle new challenges.

    We invite submissions of papers addressing any of the following
    or related issues:
     - What kinds of knowledge can and cannot be gathered
       from volunteer contributors?
     - How to evaluate the quality of knowledge collected with
       such an approach?
     - What kinds of knowledge are particularly suited for collection
       from humans?
     - How do we keep the volunteers interested in the teaching task,
       how to attract new contributors, and how to increase retention?
     - Can useful knowledge collection be successfully deployed as a
       side effect to user's activities, e.g. searching or using the
       web?
     - Can active learning techniques help focus on the most relevant
       knowledge?

    [Important Dates]

    Extended abstracts due: October 8, 2004
    Notification of acceptance: November 5, 2004
    Spring Symposium: March 21-23, 2005

    [Additional Information]

    See http://teach-computers.org/kcvc05.html or contact Timothy
    Chklovski (timc@isi.edu) for up-to date information.

    [Organizing Committee]

    Timothy Chklovski, USC / Information Sciences Institute
    Pedro Domingos, University of Washington
    Henry Lieberman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas
    Push Singh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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