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<!doctype html><html class="no-js" lang="en"><head><meta charset="utf-8"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"><title>AKBC 2020</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://akbc.ws/2020/assets/css/styles_feeling_responsive.css"> <script src="https://akbc.ws/2020/assets/js/modernizr.min.js"></script> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/webfont/1.5.18/webfont.js"></script> <script> WebFont.load({ google: { families: ['Lato:400,700,400italic:latin', 'Volkhov::latin'] } }); </script> <noscript><link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:400,700,400italic%7CVolkhov' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> </noscript><link rel="icon" href="https://akbc.ws//2020/favicon.ico"><link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="https://akbc.ws/2020/assets/img/apple-touch-icon.png"><link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="https://akbc.ws/2020/assets/img/favicon-32x32.png"><link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="https://akbc.ws/2020/assets/img/favicon-16x16.png"><link rel="manifest" href="https://akbc.ws/2020/assets/img/site.webmanifest"><link rel="mask-icon" href="https://akbc.ws/2020/assets/img/safari-pinned-tab.svg" color="#5bbad5"><body id="top-of-page" class="frontpage"><div id="navigation" class="sticky"><nav class="top-bar" role="navigation" data-topbar><ul class="title-area"><li class="name"><h1 class="show-for-small-only"><a href="https://akbc.ws/2020"> <img src="/2020/assets/img/logo_notext.png" style="width:30px"/> AKBC 2020</a></h1><li class="toggle-topbar menu-icon"><a href="#"><span>Menu</span></a></ul><section class="top-bar-section"><ul class="left"><li class="has-dropdown active"> <a href="https://akbc.ws/2020/">AKBC 2020</a><ul class="dropdown"><li><a href="https://akbc.ws/2019" target="_blank">AKBC 2019</a><li><a href="https://akbc.ws/2021" target="_blank">AKBC 2021</a></ul><li class="divider"><li class="has-dropdown"> <a href="https://akbc.ws/2020/papers/">Program</a><ul class="dropdown"><li><a href="https://akbc.ws/2020/awards/">Awards</a><li><a href="https://akbc.ws/2020/papers/">Accepted Papers</a><li><a href="https://akbc.ws/2020/speakers/">Invited Speakers</a><li><a href="https://akbc.ws/2020/workshops/">Workshops</a><li><a href="https://akbc.ws/2020/schedule/">Schedule</a><li><a href="https://akbc.ws/2020/cfp/">Call for papers</a></ul><li class="divider"><li class="has-dropdown"> <a href="https://akbc.ws/2020/virtual/">Virtual Conference</a><ul class="dropdown"><li><a href="https://akbc.ws/2020/virtual-details/">Instructions</a><li><a href="https://akbc.ws/2020/virtual/">Virtual Hub</a></ul><li class="divider"><li><a href="https://akbc.ws/2020/registration/">Register</a><li class="divider"><li><a href="https://akbc.ws/2020/sponsors/">Sponsors</a><li class="divider"><li><a href="https://akbc.ws/2020/organization/">Organization</a><li class="divider"></ul><ul class="right"></ul></section></nav></div><div id="masthead"><div class="row"><div class="small-12 columns"> <a id="logo" href="https://akbc.ws/2020/" title="AKBC 2020 – "> <img src="https://akbc.ws/2020/assets/img/logo.png" alt="AKBC 2020" width="260px"> </a></div></div></div><div id="header-home"><div class="row"><div class="small-12 columns"></div></div></div><div class="row t60"></div><div class="row"><div class="medium-12 column"><div style="border-radius: 15px; padding: 10px; background: #c0cca1;"> <b>COVID-19 UPDATE:</b> Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, AKBC 2020 is moving to a fully virtual conference including invited and contributed talks, poster sessions, workshops and hallway discussions. AKBC 2020 dates (originally June 22-24) will remain approximately the same: main conference will be <b>June 22-24</b>, while <a href="/2020/workshops/">workshops</a> will be on <b>June 25</b>. <br /> Stay tuned for more details during the upcoming weeks!</div><h2 id="registration">Registration</h2><p>Registration is open! The registration fees are $30 for students and $50 for non-students.<p><strong>Important:</strong> In order to view conference content, you must register with an email address that is linked to an account on <a href="https://openreview.net/login">OpenReview.net</a>. If you have not already created an account on <a href="https://openreview.net/login">OpenReview.net</a>, please do so first.<p><a class="button" href="https://na.eventscloud.com/akbc2020">Register here</a><h2 id="knowledge-base-construction">Knowledge Base Construction</h2><p>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.<h2 id="new-conference">New Conference</h2><p>Nearly ten years after the first AKBC workshop in Grenoble, France, AKBC has become a conference, with its widely-acclaimed first instantiation last year in Amherst MA. Why a new stand-alone conference?<ul><li>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.<li>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.<li>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.<li>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.</ul><h2 id="latest-news">Latest news</h2><p>Jun 24 2020: <a href="/2020/awards">Best Papers</a> announced.<br /> Jun 4 2020: <a href="https://na.eventscloud.com/akbc2020">Registration</a> is now open, only $30 for students, and $50 for non-students.<br /> May 2020 : Final <a href="/2020/schedule/">dates</a> of the conference accounced: <strong>June 22-25</strong>.<br /> May 2020 : List of <a href="/2020/workshops/">workshops</a>, with their websites, available now.<br /> May 2020 : List of <a href="/2020/speakers/">invited talks</a> available now.<br /> May 2020 : List of <a href="/2020/papers/">accepted papers</a> available now.<br /> Mar 2020 : Due to COVID-19, AKBC 2020 is moving to a fully virtual conference.<br /> Feb 2020 : Abstract deadline extended.<br /> Jan 2020 : <a href="/2020/submission">Submission Site</a> is live<br /> Jan 2020 : <a href="https://github.com/akbc-conference/style-files/blob/master/akbc-latex.zip?raw=true">LaTeX Style Files</a> updated<br /> Nov 2019 : <a href="/2020/cfw">Call for Workshop Proposals</a> released <br /> Sep 2019 : <a href="/2020/cfp">Call for Papers</a> released <br /><p><a name="dates"></a><h2 id="key-dates">Key Dates</h2><p><br /> June 22-24, 2020: Main Conference<br /> June 25, 2020: Conference <a href="/2020/workshops/">Workshops</a><br /> <del>Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2020</del><br /> <del>February 13, 2020, Thursday: Paper submission deadline (11:59pm PST)</del><br /> <del>February 13, 2020, Thursday: Abstracts due (11:59pm PST)</del><br /> <del>December 18, 2020, Wednesday: Workshop proposals due (Midnight PST)</del><br /><h2 id="previous-conferences--workshops">Previous Conferences / Workshops</h2><p><br /> <a href="http://akbc.ws/2019">AKBC 2019</a> in Amherst <br /> <a href="http://akbc.ws/2017">AKBC 2017</a> at NIPS 2017, Long Beach <br /> <a href="http://akbc.ws/2016">AKBC 2016</a> at NAACL 2016, San Diego <br /> <a href="http://akbc.ws/2014">AKBC 2014</a> at NIPS 2014, Montreal <br /> <a href="http://akbc.ws/2013">AKBC 2013</a> at CIKM 2013, San Francisco <br /> <a href="http://akbcwekex2012.wordpress.com/">AKBC-WEKEX 2012</a> at NAACL 2012, Montreal <br /> <a href="http://videolectures.net/akbc2010_grenoble/">AKBC 2010</a> in Grenoble <br /></div></div><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="small-7 columns"><h2>Sponsors</h2></div></div><div class="row"><div class="med-7 columns"><ul id="sponsorsDiv" class="small-block-grid-7"><li> <a class="th" href="https://www.ibm.com/"> <img src="/2020/assets/img/sponsors/ibm.png" alt="IBM" display="inline-block"></a><li> <a class="th" href="https://www.pimco.com/"> <img src="/2020/assets/img/sponsors/pimco.png" alt="PIMCO" display="inline-block"></a><li> <a class="th" href="https://labs.oracle.com"> <img src="/2020/assets/img/sponsors/oracle.png" alt="Oracle" display="inline-block"></a><li> <a class="th" href="https://www.sap.com/"> <img src="/2020/assets/img/sponsors/sap.png" alt="SAP" display="inline-block"></a><li> <a class="th" href="https://www.microsoft.com/"> <img src="/2020/assets/img/sponsors/microsoft.png" alt="Microsoft" display="inline-block"></a><li> <a class="th" href="https://www.relational.ai/"> <img src="/2020/assets/img/sponsors/relational_ai.png" alt="Relational.AI" display="inline-block"></a><li> <a class="th" href="https://www.google.com/"> <img src="/2020/assets/img/sponsors/google.png" alt="Google" display="inline-block"></a></ul></div></div></div><script> var div = document.querySelector('#sponsorsDiv'); 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