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. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- information integration; schema alignment; ontology alignment; ontology construction
- monolingual alignment, alignment between knowledge bases and text
- joint inference between text interpretation and knowledge base
- pattern and semantic analysis of natural language, reading the web, learning by reading
- scalable computation; distributed computation; probabilistic databases
- information retrieval; search on mixtures of structured and unstructured data
- machine learning; unsupervised, lightly-supervised and distantly-supervised learning; learning from naturally-available data
- human-computer collaboration in KB construction; automated population of wikis
- dynamic data, online/on-the-fly adaptation of knowledge
- inference; scalable approximate inference
- languages, toolkits and systems for automated knowledge base construction
- demonstrations of existing automatically-built knowledge bases
Please format your papers using the two-column NAACL-HLT 2012 proceedings format, and restrict it to 4 pages (excluding references). The submissions are double blind, meaning that the submissions should not reveal the authors. All accepted papers will be presented as posters. Additionally, the top 3 papers as determined by the PC will also be presented in an oral session. Please submit your papers at https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/AKBCWEKEX2012/ by April 6, 2012.
