• The 2008 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop

• The 2008 Empirical Methods for Asian Languages Processing Workshop

• International Workshop on Soft Computing for Knowledge Technology

• The workshop on Knowledge, Language, and Learning in Bioinformatics

PKAW 2008

The 2008 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop

http://www.cis.utas.edu.au/pkaw08/

The Call for papers in PDF format can be download here.

Introduction
The Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshops (PKAW) have provided a forum for the past two decades for researchers and practitioners in the Pacific region working in the area of knowledge acquisition. PKAW covers a spectrum of techniques and approaches ranging from manual knowledge acquisition from a human expert to fully automated knowledge acquisition using machine learning or data mining methods. With the growing recognition of the pivotal role that knowledge plays in the sustainability, competitiveness and growth of an organisation, together with the difficulties associated with effectively managing knowledge, finding solutions to address the knowledge acquisition bottleneck is even more important in today’s society than in the early beginnings of this field. This workshop will explore and disseminate the latest solutions.

As a field within the larger field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), solutions incorporating other areas of AI such as ontological engineering, agent based technology, robotics, image recognition and the Semantic Web are common, as are knowledge acquisition methods related to other fields of computing such as databases, the Internet, information retrieval, language technology and game technology. Many solutions are application focussed addressing real world problems such as knowledge reuse, sharing, merging and reconciliation within a wide range of problem domains.

Topics of Interest

Papers are invited for consideration in all aspects of knowledge acquisition for knowledge-based systems, including (but not restricted to):

• Fundamental views on knowledge that affect the knowledge acquisition process and the use of knowledge in knowledge engineering

• Algorithmic approaches to knowledge acquisition

• Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition, knowledge maintenance and knowledge validation

• Evaluation of knowledge acquisition techniques, tools and methods

• Knowledge acquisition and machine learning

• Languages and frameworks for knowledge and knowledge modelling information systems or decision support systems

• Methods and techniques for sharing and reusing knowledge

• Distributed knowledge acquisition through infrastructures such as the Internet

• Ontology acquisition and the role of ontologies in knowledge acquisition

• The implications of the Semantic Web for knowledge acquisition

• The role of agents in knowledge acquisition

• Data mining and machine learning

• Business Rules, Knowledge Acquisition and Software Engineering

Instructions for Paper Submission

All papers must be submitted electronically as PDF and in Springer LNAI format, using the EasyChair conference (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pkaw08) management tool. Please follow Springer's manuscript format guidelines (http://www.jaist.ac.jp/PRICAI-08/). The paper should be between 10 to 15 pages long. 

Important Dates

Abstract submission (recommended): September 5, 2008

Paper submission:                           September 12, 2008

Notification of acceptance:              October 10, 2008

Camera ready:                               October 31, 2008

Review

Each submission will be subjected to review by at least two members from the program committee.  Acceptance is based on the basis of relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity.

Publications
All accepted papers will be published in the Workshop Proceedings. We plan to publish our proceedings by Springer to produce a Lecture Notes Series or a special issue in some journal. FIf the proceeding is not published by Springer or by journal, full copyright of papers will be retained by authors for resubmission to other conferences or journals.

Questions and Suggestions
Concerning suggestions for the conference and other inquiries, write to the Program Co-chairs: Prof. Debbie Richards, Macquarie University (richards@ics.mq.edu.au); Prof. Byeong-ho Kang, Tasmania University (bhkang@utas.edu.au)

For a complete listing of the Senior Program Committee members, please see
http: //www.cis.utas.edu.au/iWeb/iPrj/2008/pkaw08/committee.php.

EMALP 2008

The 2008 Empirical Methods for Asian Language Processing Workshop
Hanoi, Vietnam, 15 - 19 December 2008
http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~nguyenml/Conferences/EMALP2008.htm
The Call for papers in PDF format can be download here.

Introduction

With the rapid increasing number of text documents written in Asian languages, the development of fundamental methods, tools, and corpora for processing Asian languages would be expected as key solutions for helping Asian people to effectively access and communicate with people in the world. Empirical methods are considered as key techniques for dealing with natural language processing problems. For instance, machine translation, text summarization, and information extraction are clear examples for illustrating the efficiency of employing empirical methods. To enhance studies on empirical methods for Asian languages, this international workshop for Asian language processing will be held which aims at inviting researchers and developers in the area to come to discuss and exchange new ideas and the latest achievements in the field of language processing. The scope of the workshop covers applications, systems, technologies and theoretical aspects of empirical methods for Asian language processing.

Topics of Interest

Papers are invited for consideration in all aspects of knowledge acquisition for knowledge-based systems, including (but not restricted to):

• Information Extraction

• Information Retrieval

• Machine Translation

• Language and dialogue modeling

• Multilingual technologies

• Question answering

• Statistical parsing

• Summarization

• Generation

• Speech recognition and synthesis

• Discourse and dialogue

• Word sense disambiguation

• Word, term, and text segmentation

 Instructions for Paper Submission

All papers must be submitted electronically as PDF and in Springer LNAI format, using the EasyChair conference (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emalp2008) management tool. Please follow Springer's manuscript format guidelines (http://www.jaist.ac.jp/PRICAI-08/). The paper should be between 10 to 15 pages long.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission (recommended): August 29, 2008

• Paper submission:                           September 15, 2008

• Notification of acceptance:              October 15, 2008

• Camera ready:                               November 15, 2008

Review

Each submission will be subjected to review by at least two members from the program committee. Acceptance is based on the basis of relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity.

Publications

All accepted papers will be published on the workshop proceedings. A special issue will be proposed to Journal of Natural Language Processing for selected papers of the workshop.

Questions and Suggestions

Concerning suggestions for the conference and other inquiries, write to the Program Co-chairs:

Prof. Akira Shimazu, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (shimazu@jaist.ac.jp);

Prof. Chi-Mai Luong, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology (lcmai@ioit.ac.vn);

Prof. Manabu Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology (oku@pi.titech.ac.jp)

For a complete list of the Senior Program Committee members, please see:

http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~nguyenml/Conferences/committee.php

SCKT 2008

International Workshop on Soft Computing for Knowledge Technology
Hanoi, Vietnam, December 15-19, 2008
http://roughsets.home.pl/www/SOFTCOMP/
The Call for papers in PDF format can be download here.

Objectives and Topics

Bringing the results of Artificial Intelligence research into applications in information technology and industry is one of the key aims of the Knowledge Technology. This wide research discipline refers to a collection of tools including methods and software enabling better representation, organization and exchange of three concepts such as data, information and knowledge. Knowledge technology is related to many research areas including knowledge representation, knowledge acquisition and discovery from data, information retrieval, agent technology, semantic webs, among others.

Many efforts of researchers have been made to intensively investigate and develop efficient methods for knowledge technology. In this Workshop, more focus will be put on soft computing techniques and methods for knowledge technology, which would include main constituents of fuzzy logic, rough set theory, probabilistic and evidential reasoning, neural networks, and evolutionary algorithms as well as their hybrids. The Workshop aims at providing a forum for exchanges of ideas and research results as well as for fostering interaction and discussion among all participants on related fields of research and their practical applications.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Automated Reasoning

• Computational Intelligence

• Concept Formation and Learning

• Conceptual Maps

• Data Mining

• Evolutionary Computing

• Formal Concept Analysis

• Fuzzy Sets

• Granular Computing

• Knowledge Engineering

• Knowledge Retrieval

• Knowledge Theory

• Molecular and Quantum Computing

• Neural Computing

• Rough Sets

• Applications

Paper submission

Potential authors are invited to submit their abstract by August 15, 2008 and the full papers by October 1, 2008. The submissions will be evaluated by Workshop PC members for scientific quality and for relevance to the Workshop.

Submissions should include abstract, 5-10 keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 15 pages, including tables and figures, in PDF format. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work. The final version of an accepted paper will be restricted to be around 12 pages with Springer's Lecture Notes format.

All accepted papers will be available online for free download. After the Workshop, the authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their works for consideration in a special issue of an international journal (pending).

• Deadline for abstract submission:      August 20, 2008.

• Deadline for full paper submission:     October 12, 2008.

• Notification of acceptance/rejection: November 10, 2008.

• Deadline for the final camera-ready:  November 20, 2008.

For further information about Workshop, please contact the Workshop Co-organizers at:

Hung Son Nguyen, Warsaw University
Email: son@mimuw.edu.pl

Van Nam Huynh, JAIST
Email: huynh@jaist.ac.jp

KLLBI 2008

The workshop on Knowledge, Language, and Learning in Bioinformatics
http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~ken/KLLBI/
Hanoi, Vietnam, December 15-19, 2008
The Call for papers in PDF format can be download here.

Purpose and scope

To handle the torrents of data yielded by high-throughput experiments like genome sequencing and gene expression measurement, today’s biologists are expanding their scientific capability by computer and internet. Huge amount of biological data are well-organized, stored, and searched at database sites. Due to the rich information stored in databases, statistical methods including machine learning and data mining are of increasing importance. In addition to such intelligent algorithms, text data and ontologies are strongly supporting today’s biologists. For instance, recent application software for gene expression analysis tends to combine statistical algorithms (clustering, PCA, etc.), concepts represented as ontologies (e.g. Gene Ontology), and text data from literature (PubMed, etc.) to help scientists data analysis and hypothesis verification. Because of this situation, the workshop aims to provide a forum for more detailed discussion on the following computational technologies (but not limited) applied to biological or medical data.

• Knowledge representation

• Knowledge management

• Knowledge discovery

• Data mining

• Text mining

• Text classification

• Natural language processing

• Ontology construction

• Ontology utilization

• Machine learning

Submission guideline

Format: Springer LNAI format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0)

Length: 10-15 pages

Submission: Please send your manuscript in PDF to the workshop organizer (ken@t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp) by the submission deadline.

Important dates

• Submission deadline:           September 30

• Notification of acceptance:  October 15

• Camera ready deadline:       November 4

Review

All papers submitted to this workshop will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Acceptance will be based primarily on originality and contribution.

Publication

All the accepted *and* presented papers will be included in the proceedings available on-site during the workshop. To be included in the proceedings, at least one of the authors must confirm his/her attendance to the workshop and present the paper.  Authors of accepted papers must complete a confirmation form and submit it with the camera-ready version of the paper. Selected best papers will be published as the special issue of this workshop in Journal of Software (http://www.academypublisher.com/jsw/) after the extension so that they contain at least 30% of new material.

Workshop organizers

Kenji Satou (Kanazawa University, Japan)

Masanori Arita (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Workshop website

http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~ken/KLLBI/