Call for Matching Systems Participation: The OAEI'06 campaign

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                   THE OAEI'06 CAMPAIGN

      CALL FOR MATCHING SYSTEMS PARTICIPATION

           http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2006/

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BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI)
is a coordinated international initiative that 
has been set up for organising evaluation of 
ontology matching systems. 

The OAEI'06 campaign will consist of four tracks 
gathering six data sets and different evaluation modalities. 
The tracks include: 
(i) comparison track (systematic benchmark series);
(ii) expressive ontologies (e.g., from the anatomy domain);
(iii) directories and thesauri (e.g., Google, Yahoo);
(iv) consensus workshop.


IMPORTANT DATES
early June, 2006: First publication of test cases;
June 28, 2006: Comments on test cases (any time before that date);
July 3, 2006: Final publication of test cases;
September 4, 2006: Preliminary results due (for interoperability-checking);
September 15, 2006: Participants send final results and supporting papers; 
October 9, 2006: Organizers publish results for comments;
November 5 or 6, 2006: Venue - the ISWC'06 workshop on Ontology Matching, 
                       OM-2006, GA Center, Athens, Georgia, USA;
                       OAEI'06 final results ready. 


FURTHER DETAILS of the OAEI'06 campaign, e.g., an evaluation process, 
presentation of the results, are available at 
http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2006/.


More information about OAEI as well as previous campaigns can be found at:
http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/

More information about Ontology Matching can be found at:
http://www.ontologymatching.org/ 

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Pavel Shvaiko
University of Trento
Dept. of Information and Communication Technology
Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY
Web: http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/
http://www.ontologymatching.org/

Received on Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:17:02 UTC