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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Apologies for
cross-postings</FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> Final call for ontology matching
systems
participation
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OAEI-2009<BR> Ontology Alignment Evaluation
Initiative</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>in cooperation with the ISWC Ontology Matching
workshop<BR>October 25, 2009 - Chantilly, near Washington DC., USA </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> </FONT><A
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Verdana size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>OAEI-2009 is the sixth OAEI campaign. It will
consist<BR>of five tracks gathering elleven test cases and different
<BR>evaluation modalities. The tracks cover:<BR>(i) comparison track;<BR>(ii)
expressive ontologies;<BR>(iii) directories and thesauri;<BR>(iv) oriented
matching;<BR>(v) instance matching.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Verdana size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Verdana size=2>IMPORTANT DATES<BR>June 1st, 2009: First
publication of test cases<BR>June 22nd, 2009: Comments on test cases (any time
before that date)<BR>July 6th, 2009: Final publication of test
cases<BR>Sept. 1st, 2009: Preliminary results due (for
interoperability-checking)<BR>Sept. 28st, 2009: Participants send final results
and supporting papers<BR>Oct. 5th, 2009: Organizers publish results for
comments<BR>Oct. 25th, 2009: OM-2009 workshop + OAEI-2009 final results
ready.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Verdana size=2>More about OAEI-2009: </FONT><A
href="http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/"><FONT
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face=Verdana size=2>http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Verdana size=2>More about OAEI: </FONT><A
href="http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/"><FONT
title="http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/
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face=Verdana size=2>http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>More about OM-2009: </FONT><A
href="http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/"><FONT
title="http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/
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face=Verdana size=2>http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Verdana size=2>More about ontology matching: </FONT><A
href="http://www.ontologymatching.org/"><FONT
title="http://www.ontologymatching.org/
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face=Verdana size=2>http://www.ontologymatching.org/</FONT></A><FONT
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Cheers,<BR>Pavel</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>--------------------------------------- <BR>Pavel
Shvaiko, Ph.D.<BR>Innovation and Research Project Manager<BR>TasLab -
Informatica Trentina S.p.A.<BR>Via G. Gilli, 2<BR>38100 Trento -
Italy<BR></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>