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AKT Postgraduates Colloquium
Planning Meeting
Jessica Chen-Burger
University of Edinburgh
26/1/2005
Southampton Univ.
Admin
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Jessica Chen-Burger, University of Edinburgh
– [email protected]
Introduction to the AKT Postgraduates
Colloquium:
– Stem from students;
– Supported by staff 
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Sign-up attendance list.
Goals
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Increase visibility of doctoral students' work,
Provide an informal discussion forum,
Practice writing skills for a research paper,
Obtain comments and advice from those
outside of own research group
Create a centralized and sharable web based
information repository that is tailored to the
community,
Provide a platform to build a wider research
network,
Gain experience by organizing/participating
the symposium.
Introduction to AKT
Postgraduates Colloquium
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The AKT Postgraduates Colloquium is
planned to be held in conjunction with the
AKT workshop to be held in Summer 2005. It
should last for one full day.
Core participants are AKT postgraduates,
although linked postgraduates are most
welcome to join in. It will be run and
organised by AKT postgraduates.
Funding for coming to the colloquium.
Involvement
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Each AKT sponsored student is required to
submit at least one paper;
Other students linked to AKT are encouraged
to submit papers;
Get supervisors involved;
Survey:
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Year of study;
Conference/workshop organisation experiences;
Paper writing experiences;
Informal research paper writing experiences;
Other experiences ?
Research Areas and
Topics
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Agent and Protocol
Knowledge acquisition and modelling
Knowledge systems
Natural language processing
Narrative generation
Semantic web technologies
Semantic web site technologies
Ontologies
Social network analysis
Annotations
Constraint satisfaction
Problem solving methods
Current Organisation
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Technical managers (web site)
– Sam Chapman, Sheffield Univ. ([email protected])
– Ajay Chakravarthy, Sheffield Univ. ([email protected])
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Information officer
– David Lambert, Edinburgh Univ.
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Symposium coordinator
– Duncan McRae-Spencer, Southampton Univ.
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Communication officer:
– Li Guo, Edinburgh University
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Local organiser
– Y. Lei, Open Univ. ?
– Thomas Heath (nominated) – [email protected]
Paper submission
and review Exercises
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Two types of papers:
– full (up to 8 pages);
– short papers(up to 4 pages).
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Two types of short papers:
– Position;
– demo papers.
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Reviewing and improving process:
– Reviewed by two staff member;
– Peer-review.
Program Format
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Research experiences (senior PGs+RA/F) –
hands-on experiences discussion panel.
Paper presentation.
Demo and poster presentation.
Organisational issues
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A dedicated AKT postgraduates colloquium web site
already existed:
– http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt-postgraduates/
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Additional informal working area at the Univ. of
Edinburgh:
– http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/akt/pg-doc/
– http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~jessicac/project/AKT-DS/
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A draft First AKT Postgraduates Colloquium web site
is already there – Sam Chapman.
Finalising draft Call for paper.
Proceeding: web publishing – web site and e-print.
Create an additional (mirror) site at the AKT project
web site ?
Actions ?
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Sending out CFP,
Setting up colloquium CFP website and
automatic submission mechanism –
Sam/Ajay,
Forming reviewing committee,
Include more CFP research areas,
Forming PG name list,
Dates,
Any other actions?