The Semantic Web: Research and Applications; 3rd European Semantic Web Conference, Eswc 2006 Budva, Montenegro, June 11-14, 2006, Proceedings

by Sure, York; Domingue, John

• ISBN13: 9783540345442
• ISBN10: 3540345442
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-15
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2006, held in Budva, Montenegro in June 2006. The 48 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 181 submitted papers. The papers are organized in topical sections on ontology alignment, engineering, evaluation, evolution and learning, rules and reasoning, searching and quering, semantic annotation, semantic web minig and personalisation, semantic web services, semantic wiki and blogging, as well as trus and policies.

Table of Contents

Invited Talks
Where Does It Break? or: Why the Semantic Web Is Not Just "Research as Usual"
Frank van Harmelen	1	(1)
Toward Large-Scale Shallow Semantics for Higher-Quality NLP
Eduard Hovy	2	(1)
Usability and the Semantic Web
Anthony Jameson	3	(1)
Ontology Alignment
Matching Hierarchical Classifications with Attributes
Luciano Serafini, Stefano Zanobini, Simone Sceffer, Paolo Bouquet	4	(15)
An Iterative Algorithm for Ontology Mapping Capable of Using Training Data
Andreas Heß	19	(15)
Community-Driven Ontology Matching
Anna V. Zhdanova,, Pavel Shvaiko	34	(16)
Reconciling Concepts and Relations in Heterogeneous Ontologies
Chiara Ghidini, Luciano Serafini	50	(15)
Empirical Merging of Ontologies A Proposal of Universal Uncertainty Representation Framework
Vit Nováek, Pavel Smrž	65	(15)
Ontology Engineering
Encoding Classifications into Lightweight Ontologies
Fausto Giunchiglia, Maurizio Marchese, Ilya Zaihrayeu	80	(15)
A Method to Convert Thesauri to SKOS
Mark van Assem, Véronique Malaisé, Alistair Miles, Guus Schreiber	95	(15)
Ontology Engineering Revisited: An Iterative Case Study
Christoph Tempich, H. Sofia Pinto, Steffen Staab	110	(15)
Ontology Evaluation
Toward a Complete OWL Ontology Benchmark
Li Ma, Yang Yang, Zhaoming Qiu, Guotong Xie, Yue Pan, Shengping Liu	125	(15)
Modelling Ontology Evaluation and Validation
Aldo Gangemi, Carola Catenacci, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Jos Lehmann	140	(15)
Benchmark Suites for Improving the RDF(S) Importers and Exporters of Ontology Development Tools
Raúl Garciaa-Castro, Asunción Gómez-Pérez	155	(15)
Ontology Evolution
Repairing Unsatisfiable Concepts in OWL Ontologies
Aditya Kalyanpur, Bijan Parsia, Evren Sirin, Bernardo Cuenca-Grau	170	(15)
Winnowing Ontologies Based on Application Use
Harith Alani, Stephen Harris, Ben O'Neil	185	(15)
Resolving Inconsistencies in Evolving Ontologies
Peter Plessers, Olga De Troyer	200	(15)
Ontology Learning
Automatic Extraction of Hierarchical Relations from Text
Ting Wang, Yaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Ji Wang	215	(15)
An Infrastructure for Acquiring High Quality Semantic Metadata
Yuangui Lei, Marta Sabou, Vanessa Lopez, Jianhan Zhu, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motto,	230	(15)
Extracting Instances of Relations from Web Documents Using Redundancy
Viktor de Boer. Maarten van Someren, Bob J. Wielinga	245	(14)
Rules and Reasoning
Toward Multi-viewpoint Reasoning with OWL Ontologies
Heiner Stuckenschmidt	259	(14)
Effective Integration of Declarative Rules with External Evaluations for Semantic-Web Reasoning
Thomas Eiter, Giovambattista Ianni, Roman Schindlauer, Hans Tompits	273	(15)
Variable-Strength Conditional Preferences for Ranking Objects in Ontologies
Thomas Lukasiewicz, Jörg Schellhase	288	(15)
A Metamodel and UML Profile for Rule-Extended OWL DL Ontologies
Saartje Brockmans, Peter Haase, Pascal Hitzler, Rudi Studer	303	(14)
Visual Ontology Cleaning: Cognitive Principles and Applicability
Joaquin Borrego-Diaz, Antonia M. Chávez-González	317	(15)
Rules with Contextually Scoped Negation
Axel Polleres, Cristina Feier, Andreas Harth	332	(16)
Searching and Querying
Beagle++: Semantically Enhanced Searching and Ranking on the Desktop
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Stefania Costache, Wolfgang Nejdl, Raluca Paiu	348	(15)
RDFBroker: A Signature-Based High-Performance RDF Store
Michael Sintek, Malte Kiesel	363	(15)
Towards Distributed Information Retrieval in the Semantic Web: Query Reformulation Using the oMAP Framework
Umberto Straccia, Raphaël Troncy	378	(15)
PowerAqua: Fishing the Semantic Web
Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria Uren	393	(18)
Information Retrieval in Folksonomies: Search and Ranking
Andreas Hotho, Robert Jäschke, Christoph Schmitz, Gerd Stumme	411	(16)
Semantic Annotation
DEMO- Design Environment for Metadata Ontologies
Jens Hartmann, Elena Paslaru Bontas, Raúl Palma, Asunción Gómez-Pérez	427	(15)
An Environment for Semi-automatic Annotation of Ontological Knowledge with Linguistic Content
Maria Teresa Pazienza, Armando Stellato	442	(15)
Turning the Mouse into a Semantic Device: The seMouse Experience
Jon Iturrioz, Sergio F. Anzuola, Oscar Diaz	457	(15)
Managing Information Quality in e-Science Using Semantic Web Technology
Alun Preece, Binling Jin, Edoardo Pignotti, Paolo Missier, Suzanne Eiribury, David Stead, Al Brown	472	(15)
Annotated RDF
Octavian Udrea, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, V.S. Subrahmanian	487	(15)
A Multilingual/Multimedia Lexicon Model for Ontologies
Paul Buitelaar, Michael Sintek, Matte Kiesel	502	(12)
Semantic Web Mining and Personalisation
Semantic Network Analysis of Ontologies
Bettina Hoser, Andreas Hotho, Robert Jäschke, Christoph Schmitz, Gerd Stumme	514	(16)
Content Aggregation on Knowledge Bases Using Graph Clustering
Christoph Schmitz, Andreas Hotho, Robert Jäschke, Gerd Stumme	530	(15)
Dynamic Assembly of Personalized Learning Content on the Semantic Web
Jelena Jovanovic, Dragon Gaševic, Vladan Devedžic	545	(15)
Interactive Ontology-Based User Knowledge Acquisition: A Case Study
Lora Aroyo, Ronald Denaux, Vania Dimitrova, Michael Pye	560	(15)
Semantic Web Services
Matching Semantic Service Descriptions with Local Closed-World Reasoning
Stephan Grimm, Boris Motile,Chris Preist	575	(15)
The Web Service Modeling Language WSML: An Overview
Jos de Bruijn, Holger Lausen, Axel Polleres, Dieter Fensel	590	(15)
On the Semantics of Functional Descriptions of Web Services
Uwe Keller, Holger Lausen, Michael Stollberg	605	(15)
A Minimalist Approach to Semantic Annotations for Web Processes Compositions
Marco Pistore, Luca Spalazzi, Paolo Traverso	620	(15)
Protocol Mediation for Adaptation in Semantic Web Services
Stuart K. Williams, Steven A. Battle, Javier Esplugas Cuadrado	635	(15)
Semantic Wiki and Blogging
Ideas and Improvements for Semantic Wikis
Jochen Fischer, Zeno Gantner, Steffen Rendle, Manuel Stritt, Lars Schmidt-Thieme	650	(14)
WikiFactory: An Ontology-Based Application for Creating Domain-Oriented Wikis
Angelo Di Iorio, Valentina Presutti, Fabio Vitali	664	(15)
Using Semantics to Enhance the Blogging Experience
Knud Möller, Uldis Bojars, John G. Breslin	679	(18)
Trust and Policies
WSTO: A Classification-Based Ontology for Managing Trust in Semantic Web Services
Stefania Galizia	697	(15)
Semantic Web Policies - A Discussion of Requirements and Research Issues
Piero A. Bonatti, Claudiu Duma, Norbert Fuchs, Wolfgang Nejdl, Daniel Olmedilla, Joachim Peer, Nahid Shahmehri	712	(13)
Author Index	725