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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 is becoming a conference. 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.</ul><h2 id="latest-news">Latest news</h2><p><strong>14 Mar 2019</strong> : Registration opens <br /> 25 Feb 2019 : Accepted papers announced <br /> 11 Jan 2019 : Workshops announced <br /><p><a name="dates"></a><h2 id="key-dates">Key Dates</h2><p><br /> <strong>November 16, 2018, Friday: Conference paper submissions due (Midnight PST)</strong><br /> January 11, Friday: Workshop topics announced<br /> February 15, 2019, Friday: Conference notification<br /> <strong>April 5, 2019, Friday: Early Registration Deadline.</strong><br /> May 20-21, 2019, Monday-Tuesday: Conference, UMass Amherst<br /> May 22, 2019, Wednesday: Workshops, UMass Amherst<br /><h2 id="previous-workshops">Previous Workshops</h2><p><a href="http://akbc.ws/2017">AKBC 2017</a> at NIPS 2017, Long Beach<p><a href="http://akbc.ws/2016">AKBC 2016</a> at NAACL 2016, San Diego<p><a href="http://akbc.ws/2014">AKBC 2014</a> at NIPS 2014, Montreal<p><a href="http://akbc.ws/2013">AKBC 2013</a> at CIKM 2013, San Francisco<p><a href="http://akbcwekex2012.wordpress.com/">AKBC-WEKEX 2012</a> at NAACL 2012, Montreal<p><a href="http://videolectures.net/akbc2010_grenoble/">AKBC 2010</a> in Grenoble</article></div></div><div id="up-to-top" class="row"><div class="small-12 columns" style="text-align: right;"> <a class="iconfont" href="#top-of-page"></a></div></div><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="small-4 columns"><h6> Gold Sponsors</h6></div><div class="small-3 columns"><h6> Silver Sponsors</h6></div><div class="small-4 columns"><h6> Bronze Sponsors</h6></div><div class="small-4 columns"></div></div><div class="row"><div class="small-4 columns"> <img src="/2019/images/sponsors/cz-logo-new.png" alt="Chan Zuckerberg Initiative" display="inline-block" width="90px"> <img src="/2019/images/sponsors/facebook-logo-new.png" alt="Facebook" display="inline-block" width="90px"> <img src="/2019/images/sponsors/google-logo-new.png" alt="Google" display="inline-block" width="90px"></div><div class="small-3 columns"> <img src="/2019/images/sponsors/diffbot-logo-new.png" alt="Diffbot" display="inline-block" width="90px"> <img src="/2019/images/sponsors/oracle-logo-new.png" alt="Oracle Corporation" display="inline-block" width="90px"> <img src="/2019/images/sponsors/nec-logo-new.png" alt="NEC" display="inline-block" width="180px"></div><div class="small-4 columns"> <img src="/2019/images/sponsors/elsevier-logo-new.png" alt="Elsevier" display="inline-block" width="90px"> <img src="/2019/images/sponsors/kenome-logo-new.jpg" alt="Kenome" display="inline-block" width="90px"></div><div class="small-4 columns"></div></div></div><footer id="footer-content" class="bg-grau"><div id="footer"></div><div id="subfooter"><nav class="row"><section id="subfooter-left" class="small-12 medium-6 columns credits"><p>Created with ♥ by <a href="http://phlow.de/">Phlow</a> with <a href="http://jekyllrb.com/" target="_blank">Jekyll</a> based on <a href="http://phlow.github.io/feeling-responsive/">Feeling Responsive</a>.</section><section id="subfooter-right" class="small-12 medium-6 columns"><ul class="inline-list social-icons"><li><a href="http://github.com/phlow" target="_blank" class="icon-github" title="Code und mehr..."></a><li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/PhlowMedia" target="_blank" class="icon-youtube" title="Videos, Video-Anleitungen und Filme von Phlow auf YouTube"></a><li><a href="http://twitter.com/phlow" target="_blank" class="icon-twitter" title="Immer das Neuste von Phlow gibt es auf Twitter"></a><li><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/phlow/" target="_blank" class="icon-cloud" title="Mixe, was sonst?"></a><li><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/+Phlow" target="_blank" class="icon-googleplus" title="YouTube Google+"></a></ul></section></nav></div></footer><script src="https://akbc.ws/2019/assets/js/javascript.min.js"></script> <script> $("#masthead").backstretch("/2019/images/amherst.jpg", {fade: 700}); $("#masthead-with-text").backstretch("/2019/images/amherst.jpg", {fade: 700}); </script>