- From: Oscar Corcho <ocorcho@isoco.com>
- Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 20:26:13 +0200
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- Cc: "York Sure" <sure@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>, "Jerome Euzenat" <Jerome.Euzenat@inrialpes.fr>, <thughes@atl.lmco.com>
--------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize if you receive this message more than once. --------------------------------------------------------------- Call for papers 3rd International Workshop on Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2004) http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2004 Workshop at the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004) 8 November 2004 Hiroshima Prince Hotel, Hiroshima, Japan --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: In this year's workshop, we propose an experiment on ontology alignment tools *** OBJECTIVES *** In the Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools workshop we intend to bring together researchers and practitioners from the fastly developing research areas Ontologies and Semantic Web. Currently the semantic web attracts researchers from all around the world. Numerous tools and applications of semantic web technologies are already available and the number is growing fast. However, deploying large scale ontology solutions typically involves several separate tasks and requires applying multiple tools. Therefore pragmatic issues such as interoperability are key if industry is to be encouraged to take up ontology technology rapidly. The main aim of this workshop is therefore to encourage and stimulate discussions about the evaluation of ontology-based tools. The large visibility of the semantic web, its tools and applications already attract industrial partners. In particular, as tools move from academic institutions into commercial environments they have to fulfil stronger requirements and in some cases new requirements (e.g. concerning scalability and multi-user access). Different tools from different sources need to interoperate. Typically tools are not anymore standalone solutions but integrated into a framework. This framework must be open to other commercial applications and provide connectors and interfaces to industrial standards. Larger applications need also larger ontologies and therefore require substantially more performance and scalability. A systematic evaluation of the tools might lead to a consistent level of quality and thus acceptance by industry. For the future this might lead into certification efforts for such tools. *** TOPICS OF INTEREST *** Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Interoperability of tools - Integration of tools into frameworks - Performance benchmarks - Scalability of tools - Certification of tools Tools include e.g.: - Annotation tools - Inference engines - Ontology editors and browsers - Ontology servers - Ontology mapping tools - Repositories - Retrieval tools - Semantic search engines *** PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS *** EON2003: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2003 EON2002: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/eon2002 *** SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS *** We invite two types of technical paper submissions for this workshop: - Technical papers (10 pages) - Short position papers (2 pages) Besides, we invite experiment paper submissions, as follows: *** EXPERIMENTS **** For this workshop we propose to experiment on ontology alignment tools. The objective of this experiment is to qualify algorithms and tools for ontology alignment, and to get feed back on the experiment protocol. The experiment consists in: - Run ontology alignment tools on the sample ontologies that will be provided in this Web site (their first version will be provided on June 15th, and the final version will be provided on July 7th). - Compare the results and provide the precision/recall results. - Propose new measures to be used. The details related to the experiment will be posted soon in the workshop Web site. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** TECHNICAL PAPERS ---------------- Deadline paper submissions: July 15th, 2004 Notification of acceptance: September 1st, 2004 Camera ready deadline: October 1st, 2004 EXPERIMENTS ----------- Deadline for ontology alignment experiment submissions: September 15th Camera ready deadline: October 1st, 2004 --------------------------------------------------------------- *** WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE *** York Sure (AIFB) Oscar Corcho (Intelligent Software Components) Jerôme Euzenat (INRIA) Todd Hughes (Lockheed Martin) *** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE *** Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant, Inc. (US) Bill Anderson, Ontology Works, Inc. (US) Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester (UK) Richard Benjamins, Intelligent Software Components, S.A. (ES) Christian Fillies, SemTalk (DE) John Davies, BT (UK) Carole Goble, University of Manchester (UK) Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES) Kouji Kozaki, Osaka University (JP) Natasha F. Noy, Stanford University (US) Henrik Oppermann, Ontoprise (DE) Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University (US) Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe (DE) Raphael Troncy, INA (France), for Institute National of Audiovisual Mike Uschold, Boeing (US) Takahira Yamaguchi, Shizuoka University (JP) ------------------------------------------- Oscar Corcho (iSOCO Madrid) Pedro de Valdivia, 10 28006 Madrid, Spain Tel. +34 913 349 745 Fax. +34 913 349 799 Please update your address book with my new postal address --------------------------------------------
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