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, and AKBC 2013 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, University of Washington, CMU, University of Massachusetts, and more), and DARPA. With this year’s proposal, we would like to resume this positive experience. By inviting 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.

Topics of interest:

• 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.

With this year’s workshop, we would like to resume the positive experiences from two previous workshops: AKBC-2010, AKBC-WEKEX-2012, and AKBC 2013. The AKBC-2014 workshop will serve as a forum for researchers working in the area of automated knowledge harvesting from text. By having invited talks by leading researchers from industry, academia, and the government, and by focusing particularly on vision papers, we aim to provide a vivid forum of discussion about the field of automated knowledge base construction.

Saturday, December 13th, 2014

Contributed Talks

Posters

We welcome ongoing and exciting preliminary work. 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. All accepted papers will be presented as posters, with exceptional submissions also presented as oral talks.

Please format your papers using the standard NIPS Style files, and restrict it to 4 pages (excluding references). Since the reviewing will not be double blind, please include author information and the \nipsfinalcopy flag. Note that you don't have to include a separate Abstract section in the submission.

Camera-ready Instructions

Please use the above instructions, and the following link, to update your submission for camera-ready. The page limit for the camera-ready has been expanded to 5 pages (+ references). The camera-ready submissions are due by November 28.

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Every talk should be accompanied by a poster. The maximal poster width is 1 meter (3 feet), which corresponds to A0 in portait orientation.

• Sebastian Riedel, University College London, UK
• Sameer Singh, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
• Fabian M. Suchanek, Télécom ParisTech University, France
• Partha Pratim Talukdar, Indian Institute of Science, India

Program Committee

• Ralf Schenkel
• Ndapandula Nakashole
• Jayant Krishnamurthy
• Anthony Platanios
• Niranjan Balasubramanian
• Nicoleta Preda
• Alan Akbik
• Xiao Ling
• Alan Ritter
• Gerhard Weikum
• Andreas Vlachos
• Doug Downey
• Tim Rocktaeschel
• Arvind Neelakantan
• Gabor Angeli
• Limin Yao
• James Mayfield
• Bhavana Dalvi
• Michael Wick
• Estevam Hruschka Junior
• Hoifung Poon
• Jason Naradowsky
• James Fan
• Alon Halevy
• Steffen Staab
• Ramanathan Guha

• AKBC 2013 at CIKM 2013, San Francisco
• AKBC-WEKEX 2012 at NAACL 2012, Montreal
• AKBC 2010 in Grenoble