October 4-8, 2021 (Virtual)
Knowledge Base Construction
Knowledge gathering, representation, and reasoning are among the fundamental challenges of artificial intelligence. Large-scale repositories of knowledge about entities, relations, and their abstractions are known as “knowledge bases”. Most major technology companies now have substantial efforts in knowledge base construction, and related scholarly work spans many research areas, including machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, information integration, databases, search, data mining, knowledge representation, human computation, human-computer interfaces, and fairness. The AKBC conference serves as a research forum for all these areas, in both academia and industry.
New Conference
Nearly ten years after the first AKBC workshop in Grenoble, France, AKBC has become a conference, with two widely-acclaimed instantiations in Amherst MA in 2019 and held virtually last year. Why a new stand-alone conference?
- Long-standing and growing interest in the area, now with too much material for a one-day workshop. We have sufficient material for a two-day conference plus topical workshops.
- We want to grow and connect the community beyond existing individual conference communities, bringing together ML, NLP, DB, IR, KRR, semantics, reasoning, common sense, QA, human computation, dialog, HCI.
- We want to set our own culture, including reviewing practices, and meeting format. We have fond memories of the first AKBC 2010 in Grenoble: a two-day meeting that included an afternoon hike in the Alps with much great scientific discussion.
- Why now? Growing interest across many areas. Disconnect among multiple relevant communities. Growing industry and government interest. Many of the long-existing conferences have grown uncomfortably large; a new, smaller conference can be more intimate, hospitable, and supportive.
Latest news
- Oct 2021: Outstanding papers announced.
- Sep 2021: Virtual conference hub is now online (passwords will be emailed to registered users soon)
- Sep 2021: Online registration is now open! Please register here.
- Sep 2021: List of accepted papers available now.
- Aug 2021: Registration will open early September!
- Jul 2021: All papers submitted to AKBC this year are here. Check them out!
- Jul 2021: List of workshops are available now.
- Jun 2021: We have extended the paper submission deadline to June 21, 2021.
- May 2021: Submission Site is live.
- May 2021: Call for workshops released.
- Apr 2021: Call for papers released.
- Dec 2020: Website is publicly available.
- Sep 2020: Website up, with tentative dates.
Key Dates
- Paper submission deadline:
June 17, 2021 June 21, 2021 - Author response period: July 23-30, 2021
- Notification of acceptance: August 18, 2021
- Conference & Workshop Dates: October 4-8, 2021
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”).
Previous Conferences / Workshops
2nd Conference on AKBC 2020, held virtually
1st Conference on AKBC 2019 in Amherst
AKBC 2017 at NIPS 2017, Long Beach
AKBC 2016 at NAACL 2016, San Diego
AKBC 2014 at NIPS 2014, Montreal
AKBC 2013 at CIKM 2013, San Francisco
AKBC-WEKEX 2012 at NAACL 2012, Montreal
AKBC 2010 in Grenoble
