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AAAI Spring Symposium 2005 KNOWLEDGE COLLECTION FROM VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTORS http://teach-computers.org/kcvc05.html Deadline for extended abstracts: October 8, 2004 ................................................. 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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 _______________________________________________ MT-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.computing.dcu.ie/mailman/listinfo/mt-list
