- From: <mattri@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 18:05:13 -0700
- To: <semantic-web@w3.org>
Ontology Management: Searching, Selection, Ranking, and Segmentation
K-Cap 2005 Workshop - Sunday, October 2, 2005 at Banff, Canada
http://www.aktors.org/ontoman05/
Objectives
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Ontologies are a cornerstone of the Semantic Web, and are probably the most
important form of knowledge representation currently used in both Artificial
Intelligence and on the Semantic Web. Building the required ontologies
represents a major challenge both because of the complexity of each
knowledge domain and because of the sheer number of ontologies the Semantic
Web will require. It takes a considerable amount of time and effort to
construct a single ontology, and even more if the engineer lacks first hand
knowledge of the domain they are trying to represent.
However, one of the original motivations and supposed advantages of ontologies
is that they facilitate "knowledge reuse". In theory, existing ontologies
constructed by third parties could be reused, modified, extended and pruned
as required, thereby avoiding the considerable effort of starting from
scratch. To achieve this level of reuse, however, an appropriate
infrastructure of tools and methods must be made available to allow the search,
selection and general management of the existing resources.
Ontology search systems permit the identification from the plethora of web
resources of only those items which are proper ontologies. Ontology ranking
involves the ranking of the retrieved entities in accordance with a number
of criteria, including the presence and absence of certain terms, and their
position in the ontology. Ontology segmentation involves the ability to select
and extract a particular sub-section of an existing ontology for the current
needs. In order to facilitate these procedures, ontology visualisation and
editing are necessary.
This workshop will encourage the presentation and exploration of solutions to
key aspects of ontology management and it is expected to stimulate further
research in these important issues. This workshop intends to bring together
researchers and practitioners from a wide area of research, such as semantic
web, knowledge management, information retrieval, to discuss the issues above
and exchange knowledge and experience.
Topics of Interest
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Includes but not limited to:
- Ontology search engines
- User interfaces for searching ontologies
- Ontology reuse
- Ontology ranking
- Ontology partitioning
- Ontology task-based evaluation
- Ontology change management
- Ontology versioning
- Ontology selection using visualisation
Organisers
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- Harith Alani (University of Southampton, UK) ha@ecs.soton.ac.uk
- Christopher Brewster (University of Sheffield, UK) C.Brewster@dcs.shef.ac.uk
- Natasha Noy (Stanford Medical Informatics, USA) noy@smi.stanford.edu
- Derek Sleeman (University of Aberdeen, UK) sleeman@csd.abdn.ac.uk
Programme Committee
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- Srinandan Dasmahapatra (University of Southampton, UK)
- Mark Musen (Stanford Medical Informatics, USA)
- Sofia Pinto (Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal)
- Alun Preece (University of Aberdeen, UK)
- Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK)
- Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton, UK)
- Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz, Germany)
- York Sure (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
- Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)
Submissions
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We welcome the submission of full papers (up to 8 pages) describing some
ongoing work relevant to this workshop=92s topics of interest, and short
papers (up to 4 pages) for position statements and new ideas. Papers must
be formatted using the K-CAP 2005 formatting guidelines on the conference
website (http://www.kcap05.org/). Please email your submissions in PDF to
ha@ecs.soton.ac.uk, no later than 11:59pm 11th July 2005.
Dates
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Submissions due: July 11, 2005
Notification: August 8, 2005
Camera ready copy: September 5, 2005
Workshop: October 2, 2005
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