Report on the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2007)

The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture was held October 28-31, 2007, in Whistler, British Columbia. K-CAP 2007 included two invited talks, technical papers, posters, and demonstrations. Topics included knowledge engineering and modeling methodologies, knowledge engineering and the semantic web, mixed-initiative planning and decision-support tools, acquisition of problem-solving knowledge, knowledge-based markup techniques, knowledge extraction systems, knowledge acquisition tools, and advice-taking systems. This was the fourth in a series of meetings; the first was held in Victoria, British Columbia, in 2001; the second was collocated with the ISWC meeting and was held on Sanibel Island, Florida, in October 2003; and the third meeting was held in Banff, Alberta, in October 2005. The conference was held at the Fairmont Chateau in Whistler.