K-CAP 2001
Workshop
October 20, 2001, Victoria B.C., Canada
Sections: (New:) Schedule, Accepted papers, call for papers, important dates, organizing committee program
Interactive tools for knowledge capture are tools that ask follow-up questions and engage in a dialog with the user about knowledge being entered. Interaction is essential for many tasks in knowledge capture, including resolving ambiguities in the entered knowledge, acquiring the necessary level of detail, and spotting and addressing errors as quickly as possible. The power of interaction is recognized in many fields, including active learning, mixed-initiative planning and interactive proof systems (Lund 1991).
Interactive tools for knowledge capture are used for a variety of tasks and use a variety of modalities. They have been used to help understand sketches (Forbus et al. 01), to acquire problem-solving knowledge (Blythe et al. 01, Ferguson & Allen 98) and in programming by example (Wolfman et al. 01, Bauer et al. 00). They are also important in collaborative and distributed knowledge entry applications, where tools must aid the interaction between distributed human and software agents (Myers et al. 01).
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers using interaction for knowledge capture for a range of tasks and modalities, to build a more general task-independent understanding of interactive approaches. Topics of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to:
Submissions should be either a paper of around six pages describing relevant work or a one to three page proposal of major discussion issues and topics of particular relevance to the authors' work and the themes of the workshop. Papers should describe the benefits that the use of interaction brings to the tasks under consideration. Electronic submissions are strongly preferred, by email in PDF or postscript format to blythe@isi.edu.
| Submissions due: | 3 September 2001 |
| Notification of acceptance: | 21 September 2001 |
| Camera-ready copy deadline: | 28 September 2001 |
| Workshop: | 20 October 2001 |
Mathias Bauer, DFKI bauer@dfki.de
Jim Blythe (chair), USC Information Sciences Institute, blythe@isi.edu
George Ferguson, University of Rochester ferguson@cs.rochester.edu
Tessa Lau, University of Washington, tlau@cs.washington.edu
Natasha Noy, Stanford Medical Informatics, noy@smi.stanford.edu