OAEI-2009: Final call for ontology matching systems participation

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   Final call for ontology matching systems participation                          

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                         OAEI-2009
      Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative

in cooperation with the ISWC Ontology Matching workshop
October 25, 2009 - Chantilly, near Washington DC., USA 

       http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/

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BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Ontology matching is an important task for semantic system
interoperability. Yet it is not easy to assess the respective
qualities of available matching systems. The Ontology 
Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) is a coordinated 
international initiative set up for evaluating ontology 
matching systems. OAEI campaigns consist of applying
matching systems to ontology pairs and evaluating their 
results.

OAEI-2009 is the sixth OAEI campaign. It will consist
of five tracks gathering elleven test cases and different 
evaluation modalities. The tracks cover:
(i) comparison track;
(ii) expressive ontologies;
(iii) directories and thesauri;
(iv) oriented matching;
(v) instance matching.


Anyone developing ontology matchers can participate by
evaluating their systems and sending the results to the
organizers. Tools for evaluating results and preliminary
test bench tuning are available. Final results of the
campaign will be presented at the Ontology Matching workshop
and published in the proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES
June 1st, 2009: First publication of test cases
June 22nd, 2009: Comments on test cases (any time before that date)
July  6th, 2009: Final publication of test cases
Sept. 1st, 2009: Preliminary results due (for interoperability-checking)
Sept. 28st, 2009: Participants send final results and supporting papers
Oct. 5th, 2009: Organizers publish results for comments
Oct. 25th, 2009: OM-2009 workshop + OAEI-2009 final results ready.


More about OAEI-2009: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/
More about OAEI: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/
More about OM-2009: http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/
More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/;


Cheers,
Pavel

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Pavel Shvaiko, Ph.D.
Innovation and Research Project Manager
TasLab - Informatica Trentina S.p.A.
Via G. Gilli, 2
38100 Trento - Italy