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AKT Postgraduates Colloquium Planning Meeting

AKT Postgraduates Colloquium Planning Meeting. 26/1/2005 Southampton Univ. Jessica Chen-Burger, University of Edinburgh – jessicac@inf.ed.ac.uk Introduction to the AKT Postgraduates Colloquium: Stem from students; Supported by staff  Sign-up attendance list. Admin.

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AKT Postgraduates Colloquium Planning Meeting

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  1. AKT Postgraduates ColloquiumPlanning Meeting 26/1/2005 Southampton Univ.

  2. Jessica Chen-Burger, University of Edinburgh – jessicac@inf.ed.ac.uk Introduction to the AKT Postgraduates Colloquium: Stem from students; Supported by staff  Sign-up attendance list. Admin

  3. 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. Goals

  4. 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. Introduction to AKT Postgraduates Colloquium

  5. 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: Year of study; Conference/workshop organisation experiences; Paper writing experiences; Informal research paper writing experiences; Other experiences ? Involvement

  6. 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 Research Areas andTopics

  7. Technical managers (web site) Sam Chapman, Sheffield Univ. (sam@dcs.shef.ac.uk) Ajay Chakravarthy, Sheffield Univ. (ajay@dcs.shef.ac.uk) Information officer David Lambert, Edinburgh Univ. Symposium coordinator Duncan McRae-Spencer, Southampton Univ. Communication officer: Li Guo, Edinburgh University Local organiser Y. Lei, Open Univ. ? Thomas Heath (nominated) – t.heath@open.ac.uk Current Organisation

  8. Two types of papers: full (up to 8 pages); short papers(up to 4 pages). Two types of short papers: Position; demo papers. Reviewing and improving process: Reviewed by two staff member; Peer-review. Paper submissionand review Exercises

  9. Research experiences (senior PGs+RA/F) – hands-on experiences discussion panel. Paper presentation. Demo and poster presentation. Program Format

  10. A dedicated AKT postgraduates colloquium web site already existed: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt-postgraduates/ 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/ 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 ? Organisational issues

  11. 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? Actions ?

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