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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><BR>Apologies for cross-postings</DIV>
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<DIV> Call for ontology
matching system
participation
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OAEI-2008<BR>
Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative</DIV>
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<DIV> in cooperation with the ISWC Ontology Matching
workshop<BR>
October 26, 2008 - Karlsruhe, Germany </DIV>
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href="http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/">http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/</A></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>BRIEF DESCRIPTION<BR>Ontology matching is an important task for
semantic system<BR>interoperability. Yet it is not easy to assess the
respective<BR>qualities of available matching systems. The Ontology
<BR>Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) is a coordinated <BR>international
initiative set up for evaluating ontology <BR>matching systems. OAEI campaigns
consist of applying<BR>matching systems to ontology pairs and evaluating their
<BR>results.</DIV>
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<DIV>OAEI-2008 is the fifth OAEI campaign. It will consist<BR>of four tracks
gathering eight data sets and different <BR>evaluation modalities. The tracks
cover:<BR>(i) comparison track (systematic benchmark series);<BR>(ii) expressive
ontologies (e.g., from the anatomy and environment domains);<BR>(iii)
directories and thesauri (e.g., Google, Yahoo and crosslingual
resources);<BR>(iv) consensus workshop.</DIV>
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<DIV>Anyone developing ontology matchers can participate by<BR>evaluating their
systems and sending the results to the<BR>organizers. Tools for evaluating
results and preliminary<BR>test bench tuning are available. Final results of
the<BR>campaign will be presented at the Ontology Matching workshop<BR>and
published in the proceedings.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>IMPORTANT DATES<BR>May 19th, 2008: First publication of test
cases<BR>June 15th, 2008: Comments on test cases (any time before that
date)<BR>July 1st, 2008: Final publication of test cases<BR>Sept. 1st,
2008: Preliminary results due (for interoperability-checking)<BR>Sept. 26th,
2008: Participants send final results and supporting papers<BR>Oct. 10th, 2008:
Organizers publish results for comments<BR>Oct. 26th-27th, 2008: OM-2008
workshop, Karlsruhe, DE + OAEI-2008 final results ready.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>More about OAEI-2008: <A
href="http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/">http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/</A><BR>More
about OAEI: <A
href="http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/">http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/</A><BR>More
about OM-2008: <A
href="http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/">http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/</A><BR>More
about ontology matching: <A
href="http://www.ontologymatching.org/">http://www.ontologymatching.org/</A></DIV>
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<DIV>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>Download the
OM-2008 flyer:<BR><A
href="http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/CfP_OM2008_flyer.pdf">http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/CfP_OM2008_flyer.pdf</A><BR>-------------------------------------------------------</DIV>
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<DIV>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>Pavel
Shvaiko<BR>TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy<BR>Web: <A
href="http://www.ontologymatching.org/">http://www.ontologymatching.org/</A><BR><A
href="http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/">http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/</A><BR><A
href="http://www.taslab.eu/">http://www.taslab.eu/</A><BR><A
href="http://www.infotn.it/">http://www.infotn.it/</A> </DIV>
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