This document provides information about the KCAP 2019 conference, including: - Welcome and introduction to the organizing committee chairs and other roles. - Statistics on the number of submissions received, reviews conducted, and papers selected for the conference. - Instructions for presenters on time limits and session chairs. - Details on the keynote speakers and topics. - Housekeeping notes on spotlight papers, accessing the proceedings, using the conference hashtag on Twitter, and a town hall meeting.

1. Welcome To KCAP 2019

2. Organizing Committee
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General Chairs
Mayank Kejriwal, USC Information Sciences Institute, United States
Pedro Szekely, USC Information Sciences Institute, United States
Program Chair
Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM, France
Tutorial and Workshop Chair
Daniel Garijo, USC Information Sciences Institute, United States
Treasurer
Mayank Kejriwal, USC Information Sciences Institute, United States
Local Host
Anoop Kumar, Amazon, United States

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Sponsors

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5. K-CAP 2019 Stats
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104 valid submissions (89 long papers, 15 short papers)
Reviews:
• 317 reviews + 152 comments … (review period was August)
• Thanks to the 83 PC members supported by 22 sub-reviewers
Selection:
• 28 papers selected as Full Papers (~31%)
• 5 papers selected as Short Papers (~33%) + 5 papers converted as Short Papers
Shepherding process (5 papers)
• Reviewer: “BTW, I like this "shepherd" mechanism. Nice innovation for K-CAP.“
• Author: “Thank you for giving us a chance to clarify our work based on your useful
and insightful feedback.“

6. Instructions for Presenters
20 minutes slots (keep your time!)
• 15 min for presentation
• 5 min for Q&A
• Laptop switch towards the end of the QA session
Session Chair
• Named Entity Recognition and Embedding: José Manuel Gomez Perez
• Ontology Development and Alignment: Oscar Corcho
• Multimodal Knowledge Capture: Anna Lisa Gentile
• Knowledge Graph Completion, Link Prediction and Multilinguality: Mehwish Alam
• Applications: Visualization, Question Answering and Open Science: Fatiha Saïs
• Planning and Queries: Stefan Schlobach

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Keynote Speakers
CATHERINE HAVASI,
MIT MEDIA LAB
ConceptNet at Twenty:
Reflections on structured
common sense in an era of
machine learning
PETER CLARK,
ALLEN INSTITUTE
FOR AI
Project Aristo: Towards
Machines that Capture and
Reason with Science

8. Housekeeping
Spotlight papers:
• Marked as (spotlight) in blue in your conference program
• Include best paper nominees OR highly controversial paper
Proceedings:
• available for free for a limited amount of time:
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3360901
Tweet during the conference: #kcap2019
Town hall today at 17:15

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Lunch Is On Us

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Enjoy The Conference