OM-2012

The Seventh International Workshop on Ontology Matching

collocated with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC-2012
November 11th, 2012: The Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers > room Statler, Boston, MA USA

Download OM-2012 proceedings [PDF]: CEUR-WS Vol-946

Objectives Call for papers Submissions Accepted papers Program Organization OM-2011


objectives



Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes the ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data translation, query answering or navigation on the web of data. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate.

The workshop has three goals:
  • To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve.

  • To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2012 campaign. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world specific matching tasks involving, e.g., linked open data and biomedical ontologies. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs.

  • To examine similarities and differences from database schema matching, which has received decades of attention but is just beginning to transition to mainstream tools.

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Call for papers



Audience:

The workshop encourages participation from academia, industry and user institutions with the emphasis on theoretical and practical aspects of ontology matching. On the one side, we expect representatives from industry and user organizations to present business cases and their requirements for ontology matching. On the other side, we expect academic participants to present their approaches vis-a-vis those requirements. The workshop provides an informal setting for researchers and practitioners from different related initiatives to meet and benefit from each other's work and requirements.

This year, in sync with the main conference, we encourage submissions specifically devoted to: (i) repeatable evaluations of the approaches proposed (not necessarily within OAEI) and (ii) application of the matching technology in real-life scenarios and assessment of its usefulness to the final users.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Business and use cases for matching (e.g., open government data);
  • Requirements to matching from specific domains;
  • Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios;
  • Formal foundations and frameworks for matching;
  • Matching patterns;
  • Instance matching and data interlinking;
  • Large-scale matching evaluation;
  • Performance of matching techniques;
  • Matcher selection and self-configuration;
  • User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects);
  • Explanations in matching;
  • Social and collaborative matching;
  • Alignment management;
  • Reasoning with alignments;
  • Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration);
  • Matching for emerging applications (e.g., linked data, search).
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Submissions



Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2012 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style. Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted (no later than July 31st, 2012) through the workshop submission site at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2012

Contributors to the OAEI 2012 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2012/.

Important dates:

  • July 31, 2012: CLOSED
    Deadline for the submission of papers.
  • August 31, 2012: [Review results notifications have been sent out]
    Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection.
  • September 5, 2012: CLOSED
    Workshop camera ready copy submission.
  • September 14, 2012: CLOSED
    Early ISWC'12 registration deadline.
  • November 11th, 2012:
    OM-2012, The Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers > room Statler, Boston, MA USA.

Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR-WS. The extended versions of the best technical papers of the workshop will be invited to the Journal on Data Semantics.

In order for the paper to appear in the workshop proceedings, one of the authors must register both for the conference and the workshop by the EARLY registration deadline.

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Accepted Papers



Technical Papers:

OAEI Papers:

Posters:

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   Room Statler (Mezzanine Meeting Rooms, 2nd Floor)
  8:30-9.00 Poster set-up
  9:00-9.10 Welcome and workshop overview
Organizers
 9.10-9.50 Paper presentation session: Data interlinking
 9:10-9:30 SLINT: a schema-independent linked data interlinking system
Hoang Khai Nguyen, Ryutaro Ichise, Le Hoai Bac
 9:30-9:50 Learning conformation rules for linked data integration
Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
 9.50-10.30 Paper presentation session: Matching with background knowledge
 9:50-10:10 Coupling of WordNet entries for ontology mapping using virtual documents
Frederik Schadd, Nico Roos
 10:10-10:30 WikiMatch - using Wikipedia for ontology matching
Sven Hertling, Heiko Paulheim
 10:30-11:40 Coffee break / Poster session
 11:40-12:20 Paper presentation session: Alignment debugging and reuse
 11:40-12:00 RIO: minimizing user interaction in debugging of aligned ontologies
Patrick Rodler, Kostyantyn Shchekotykhin, Philipp Fleiss, Gerhard Friedrich
 12:00-12:20 Using the OM2R meta-data model for ontology mapping reuse for the ontology alignment challenge - a case study
Hendrik Thomas, Declan O'Sullivan, Rob Brennan
 12:20-14:00 Lunch
 14:00-15:30 Paper presentation session: OAEI-2012 campaign
 14:00-14:30 Introduction to the OAEI 2012 campaign
Organizers
 14:30-14:50 GOMMA results for OAEI 2012
Anika Groß, Michael Hartung, Toralf Kirsten, Erhard Rahm
 14:50-15:10 WeSeE-Match results for OEAI 2012
Heiko Paulheim
 15:10-15:30 LogMap and LogMapLt results for OAEI 2012
Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks
 15:30-16:30 Coffee break / Poster session
 16:30-17:30 Panel: What's the user to do? Ontology matching and the real world
 17:30-18.00 Discussion and wrap-up
 from 19.30 Social dinner at the MASA restaurant
 
   Details on panel "What's the user to do? Ontology matching and the real world"
  Topics:
  • What are the tools that are available today? What is their relationships with the mapping algorithms that the researchers are developing?
  • What kind of support should ontology mapping user-facing tools provide?
  • What is the quality of mappings that domain experts produce?
  • Should domain experts be the ones performing ontology matching or are they so bad at it that all the mapping should be automatic anyway?
  • How do we factor in the interactive tools into the formal evaluation such as OAEI?
  • Are the ontologies mapped in OAEI representative of the ontologies that need to be mapping in the real world, or representative of the ontologies that the tool builders like to map?
  Panelists:
  Moderator:
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Organization



Organizing Committee:

  • Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact)
    TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy
    E-mail: pavel [dot] shvaiko [at] infotn [dot] it
  • Jérôme Euzenat
    INRIA & LIG, France
  • Anastasios (Tasos) Kementsietsidis
    IBM Research, USA
  • Ming Mao
    eBay, USA
  • Natasha Noy
    Stanford University, USA
  • Heiner Stuckenschmidt
    University of Mannheim, Germany

Program Committee:

  • Michele Barbera, SpazioDati, Italy
  • Chris Bizer, Free University Berlin, Germany
  • Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA
  • Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy
  • Jérôme David, INRIA & LIG, France
  • Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy
  • Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
  • Bin He, IBM, USA
  • Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China
  • Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
  • Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands
  • Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, USA
  • Anja Jentzsch, Free University Berlin, Germany
  • Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, University of Oxford, UK
  • Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK
  • Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
  • Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  • Rob Lemmens, ITC, The Netherlands
  • Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
  • Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy
  • Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany
  • Peter Mork, Noblis, USA
  • Nico Lavarini, Cogito - Expert System, Italy
  • Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig, Germany
  • Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK
  • Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA
  • Yefei Peng, Google, USA
  • François Scharffe, LIRMM, France
  • Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy
  • Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA
  • Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy
  • Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic
  • Cássia Trojahn dos Santos, INRIA & LIG, France
  • Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM, France
  • Giovanni Tummarello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy
  • Lorenzino Vaccari, European Commission - Joint Research Center, Italy
  • Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany
  • Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Baoshi Yan, LinkedIn, USA
  • Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Acknowledgements:

We appreciate support from the Trentino as a Lab initiative of the European Network of the Living Labs at Informatica Trentina, the EU SEALS project and the Semantic Valley initiative.

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