1. AKT Postgraduates Colloquium Planning Meeting 26/1/2005 Southampton Univ.

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

3. Goals l Increase visibility of doctoral students' work, l Provide an informal discussion forum, l Practice writing skills for a research paper, l Obtain comments and advice from those outside of own research group l Create a centralized and sharable web based information repository that is tailored to the community, l Provide a platform to build a wider research network, l Gain experience by organizing/participating the symposium.

4. Introduction to AKT Postgraduates Colloquium l 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. l Core participants are AKT postgraduates, although linked postgraduates are most welcome to join in. It will be run and organised by AKT postgraduates. l Funding for coming to the colloquium.

5. Involvement l Each AKT sponsored student is required to submit at least one paper; l Other students linked to AKT are encouraged to submit papers; l Get supervisors involved; l Survey: –Year of study; –Conference/workshop organisation experiences; –Paper writing experiences; –Informal research paper writing experiences; –Other experiences ?

6. Research Areas and Topics l Agent and Protocol l Knowledge acquisition and modelling l Knowledge systems l Natural language processing l Narrative generation l Semantic web technologies l Semantic web site technologies l Ontologies l Social network analysis l Annotations l Constraint satisfaction l Problem solving methods

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

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

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

10. Organisational issues l A dedicated AKT postgraduates colloquium web site already existed: –http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt-postgraduates/http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt-postgraduates/ l 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/project/akt/pg-doc/ –http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~jessicac/project/AKT-DS/http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~jessicac/project/AKT-DS/ l A draft First AKT Postgraduates Colloquium web site is already there – Sam Chapman. l Finalising draft Call for paper. l Proceeding: web publishing – web site and e-print. l Create an additional (mirror) site at the AKT project web site ?

11. Actions ? l Sending out CFP, l Setting up colloquium CFP website and automatic submission mechanism – Sam/Ajay, l Forming reviewing committee, l Include more CFP research areas, l Forming PG name list, l Dates, l Any other actions?