- From: Harith Alani <ha@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 08:56:55 +0100
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[Apologies for cross-posting] Ontology Management: Searching, Selection, Ranking, and Segmentation K-Cap 2005 Workshop - Sunday, October 2, 2005 at Banff, Canada http://www.aktors.org/ontoman05/ Objectives ---------- 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 ------------------ 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 merging, mapping and reconciliation - Ontology selection using visualisation Organisers ---------- - 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 ------------------- - 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 ----------- We welcome the submission of full papers (up to 8 pages) describing some ongoing work relevant to this workshop's 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 ----- Submissions due: July 11, 2005 Notification: August 8, 2005 Camera ready copy: September 5, 2005 Workshop: October 2, 2005 Dr Harith Alani Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Electronics & Computer Science University of Southampton http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~ha
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