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ISWC 2007 + ASWC 2007. 6 th International Semantic Web Conference Busan, South Korea, Nov. 11-15, 2007 http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org. http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/iswc-aswc/2007/. Statistics. About 540 participants from 30 countries 3 invited talks Research track
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ISWC 2007 + ASWC 2007 6th International Semantic Web Conference Busan, South Korea, Nov. 11-15, 2007 http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/iswc-aswc/2007/
Statistics • About 540 participants from 30 countries • 3 invited talks • Research track • 257 submissions, an 18% increase • 50 accepted (19% acceptance rate) • (215, 52, 24%) • In-Use Track • 29 submissions • 12 accepted (41% acceptance rate) • (42, 14, 33%)
Invited talks • Brewster Kahle: Universal Access to Human Knowledge (Or Public Access to Digital Materials) • Barney Pell: Natural Language and the Semantic Web • http://www.powerset.com/ • Chris Welty: How I was right even when I was wrong
Semantic Web Challenge http://challenge.semanticweb.org/ Goal: to apply Semantic Web techniques in building online end-user applications that integrate, combine and deduce information needed to assist users in performing task • Certain minimum criteria: • Meaning of data has to play a central role • Heterogeneous information sources, under diverse control • Open world assumption (information is never complete) • (multi-media, commercial potential, scalability, dynamic data) • Semantic Web Challenge • 23 submitted Semantic Web applications • 19 accepted
Semantic Web Challenge... • GroupMe! - Where Semantic Web meets Web 2.0 • JeromeDL – a Semantic Digital Library • CHIP Demonstrator: Semantics-driven Recommendations and Museum Tour Generation • Potluck: Semi-Ontology Alignment for Casual Users • Revyu.com: a Reviewing and Rating Site for the Web of Data
Doctoral consortium • 6 papers • 6 posters • Full-day session • Each student one mentor • Invited talk by Fabio Ciravegna • Best-student paper:Katharina Reinecke: Cultural Adaptivity for the Semantic Web • Best mentor: Elena Simperl
Workshops • 7 workshops on Sunday • Ontology Matching workshop • Evaluation of Ontologies and Ontology-based tools • 6 workshops on Monday • Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web + ‘Consensus Building Workshop’
http://om2007.ontologymatching.org/ Ontology Matching 2007 • 8 technical papers (26 submissions, 30%) • Solving semantic ambiquity to improve semantic web based Ontology Matching • Sabou et al. • Word sense disambiguation to improve precision • Analyzing Mapping Extraction Approaches • Meilicke et al. • How to extract final alignment from a matrix of similarity values • Towards semantics-based Ontology similarity • Pinto et al. • new semantic ontology similarity measures
Ontology Matching 2007 • Ontology Mapping – a user survey • Noy et al. • Results of online user survey • User context questions, tool questions, process questions • Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2007 (OAEI) • Jérôme Euzenat et al: First Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2007 • 17 papers about systems (ASMOV,Falcon,Lily,OntoDNA,OLA,SEMA,...) • Poster session: 9 posters
Evaluation of Ontologies and Ontology-based tools http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2007 • 7 contributions • Diverse topics • Metrics for evaluation ontologies • Semantic search engines: swoogle, OntoKhoj, OntoSelect • Ontology summarization • Evaluation of ontology-matching systems using samples (satisfaction of user) • Evaluation with synthetic workload
Panel discussion • Moderator: Guus Schreiber • Panelists: • Carole Goble • Jim Hendler • Dieter Fensel • Abraham Bernstein • Frank van Harmelen • 5 questions
Research papers • Winner paper by FORTH-ICS: On the foundations of computing deltas between RDF models • Zeginis et al. • All contributions are on-line
Next events • ISWC 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany • ISWC 2009, Washington DC, USA