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EKAW ’ 08 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Acitrezza, Italy. 29. September - 3. October 2006 http://ekaw2008.inrialpes.fr. The EKAW series. History Started as „European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop“ in 1987
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EKAW’0816th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge ManagementAcitrezza, Italy 29. September - 3. October 2006 http://ekaw2008.inrialpes.fr
The EKAW series • History • Started as „European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop“ in 1987 • From 1992 proceedings in LNCS, from 2000 denoted as conference • Originally annual, then each 1,5 year, most recently biannual - alternation with K-CAP conference oversea (originally KAW – „Banff workshop“) • Previous: EKAW 2006, Poděbrady, CZ • Established community, friendly athmosphere, often location beyond big cities
Focus of the series • Knowledge engineering „in narrow sense“ • Knowledge Acquisition • Knowledge Modelling (ProblemSolving Methods, Ontological Engineering) • KBS design • Recently strong influence by Semantic Web topics • Special focus of the2008edition: knowledge patterns; in general, the centre of gravity was ontological engineering
Some statistics of EKAW 2008 • 102 full paper submissions • small decrease wrt. 2006 (119) but possibly due to fewer ‘venture’ papers only attracted by LNCS indexed by Thomsons at that time… • 32 accepted (31% acceptance rate) • 17 long and 15 short papers • Posters/demos • some rejected papers directly accepted for posters, some further submitted at later stage • 21 posters/demos accepted altogether • About 80 registered participants
Overall Programme • 3 invited talks • 2 tutorials • Industrial half-day with panel • Sessions with contributed papers (single track) • Poster/demo session • Social events • Welcome Party (in the hotel) • Trip to Etna • Social dinner & dance party in former manufacturing plant in Catania
Invited talks • Peter Clark: Knowledge Patterns • Defining specific concepts as compositions of more generic ones • Modelling space flight simulation using generic patterns, e.g. electric circuit as distribution network (a la ontology content design patterns) • Johan Bos: Computational Semantics and Knowledge Engineering • Recent advances in computational linguistics and theorem proving made deep analysis of text and subsequent reasoning possible! • (And low-hanging fruit is gone now anyway) • Use of background knowledge: WordNet, NomLex, CIA, FB, CyC • Guus Schreiber: Principles for Knowledge Engineering on the Web
Industrial half-day • Invited talk: • R. Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research): Towards semantic search • From web of pages to web of objects • Focus of Y!: microformats, flicker tags, related entities, info from clicks • Panel: • P. Clark (Boeing), C. Shankey (Reinvent), J. M. Gomez-Perez (iSOCO), F. Fabbrocini (IBM) • Hot topics: online advertising, semwiki, expertise location, intranet search, info integration + interoperability, enterprise processes, IP management… • often: semantics yes, but with DBs, not with OWL…
Research papers • Egana et al.: Applying ontology design patterns in Bio-ontologies • Modelling “modifiers” • Aguado et al.: NL-based Approach for Helping in the Reuse of ODPs • Linguistic templates used to characterise OWL constructs • Hoekstra & Breuker: Polishing Diamonds in OWL 2 • Case study in using patterns in OWL 2 modelling in the legal domain • Scharffe & Fensel: Correspondence Patterns for Ontology Alignment • Structures arising when (smartly) aligning ontologies • Meilicke, Volker, Stuckenschmidt: Learning disjointness for Debugging Mappings between Lightweight Ontologies • Mochol, Jentzsch: Towards a Rule-Based Matcher Selection • rule-based recommending of mining tool • Ramakrishnan et al.: Unsupervised Discovery of Compound Entities for Relationship Extraction
Papers – cont’d • Ontology for collaborative ontology development workflows (Stanford) • 2 talks on product taxonomies (M. Hepp) • KEG’s contributions: • Long paper on detection of name/structural patterns • Poster on competitive intelligence reporting (Porter) • Poster on provenance modelling in ontologies
Next edition • EKAW 2010 • Autumn 2010, Lisbon, Portugal • Conference Co-Chairs: Helena Sofia Pinto (Technical University of Lisbon) + Philipp Cimiano (AIFB Karlsruhe)