- From: Oscar Corcho <ocorcho@isoco.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 21:32:34 +0200
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- Cc: "Jerome Euzenat" <Jerome.Euzenat@inrialpes.fr>, "York Sure" <sure@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>
--------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize if you receive this message more than once. --------------------------------------------------------------- * EON2004 Ontology Alignment Contest ==================================== http://co4.inrialpes.fr/align/Contest/ The increasing number of methods available for schema matching/ontology integration suggests the need to establish a consensus for evaluation of these methods. There is now a coordinated international initiative to forge this consensus through two events in 2004: - The Information Interpretation and Integration Conference (I3CON), to be held at the NIST Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) Workshop, will be an ontology alignment demonstration competition on the model of the NIST Text Retrieval Conference. This contest focuses on "real-life" test cases and compare algorithm global performance. - The Ontology Alignment Contest at the 3rd Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON) Workshop (http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2004), to be held the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), will target the characterization of alignment methods with regard to particular ontology features. This contest aims at defining a proper set of benchmark tests for assessing feature-related behavior. The goal of the EON Ontology Alignment Contest is to provide the participants with a complete test base, including couples of ontologies to align as well as expected results. The test is based on one particular ontology dedicated to a very narrow domain and a number of alternative ontologies of the same domain for which alignments are provided. The ontologies are provided in OWL. The expected alignments are provided in a standard format expressed in RDF/XML and described in http://co4.inrialpes.fr/align/. From these alignments and the ontology to compare, the competitors are able to compute a number of measures on their results. They can use the ontology provided in http://www.atl.external.lmco.com/projects/ontology/ for giving their results. The contest will be open to anyone able to provide a paper following some simple guidelines with results to these tests. These results will be presented at the ISWC 2004 EON workshop, on November 8th, 2004 in Hiroshima (Japan). The goal of the benchmark is to assess the respective merits of some algorithms with respect to precise situations, it is not to single out one winner. Paper due: September 15th, 2004.
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