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ESWC2006 Conference Programme
(Excel Version)
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Saturday, June 10th: |
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17:00 - 21:00 |
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On site registration opens |
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Sunday, June 11th: |
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12:30 - 14:00 |
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Lunch Break |
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Monday, June 12th: |
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09:00 - 10:00 |
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Keynote 1: Chris Wroe, BT Labs Health Care UK |
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Semantic Web for eGovernment
Scripting for the Semantic Web
From Wiki to Semantics
Semantic Web Personalization |
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10:00 - 10:30 |
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Invited talk: Natasa Milic-Frayling, Microsoft "Issues and strategies for digitization and preservation of the digital content" |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
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Invited talk: Massimo Paolucci, NTT DoCoMo, Germany |
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11:30 - 12:00 |
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Invited talk: David Norheim, Computas, Norway "Knowledge Management in the Petroleum Industry" |
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12:00 - 12:30 |
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Invited Talk: Marta Gonzalez Rodriguez, Robotiker (Spain) "Integrated Access to Biological Data. A Use Case" |
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12:30 - 14:00 |
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Lunch Break |
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14:00 - 14:45 |
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Keynote 2: Jens Lemcke, Christian Drumm, SAP (Germany) |
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Semantic Network Analysis (Half-day)
Mastering the Gap: From Information Extraction to Semantic Representation
From Wiki to Semantics
Semantic Web Personalization |
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14:45 - 15:15 |
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Invited talk: Daniel Oudet, AFP, France |
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15:15 - 15:45 |
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Invited talk: Anne Monceaux, EADS Airbus, Europe |
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16:30 - 17:00 |
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Invited talk: Jean Delahousse, Mondeca, France "Use of Ontology for production of access systems on Legislation, Jurisprudence and Comments" |
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17:00 - 17:30 |
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Invited Talk: Jurgen Angele, Software AG, Germany "Data Integration using Semantic Technology: a Use Case" |
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17:30 - 18:00 |
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Invited Talk: Daniela Garcia, EDF (France) |
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20:00 |
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Demo and Poster Session and New EU Framework 6 Project Posters |
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Tuesday, June 13th: |
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09:00 - 09:15 |
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Opening Ceremony (Room Bankada) |
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09:15 - 10:30 |
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Keynote (Room Bankada)
Where Does It Break? Or: Why the Semantic Web is Not Just 'Research as Usual'
Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
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Coffee Break |
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11:00 - 12:30 |
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Ontology Engineering (Room Tramontana)
Semantic Annotation 1/2 (Room Pulenat)
Semantic Wiki and Blogging (Room Levanta)
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12:30 - 14:00 |
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Lunch Break |
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14:00 - 15:30 |
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Ontology Evaluation (Room Tramontana)
Semantic Annotation 2/2 (Room Pulenat)
Semantic Web Services (Room Levanta) |
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15:30 - 16:00 |
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Coffee Break |
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16:00 - 18:00 |
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Searching and Querying (Room Tramontana)
Semantic Web Mining and Personalisation (Room Pulenat)
Semantic Web Services, Trust and Policies (Room Levanta)
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20:00 |
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Gala Dinner (Proper Dressing Encouraged) |
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Wednesday, June 14th: |
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09:15 - 10:30 |
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Keynote (Room Bankada)
Toward Large-Scale Shallow Semantics for Higher-Quality NLP Eduard Hovy (University of Southern California) |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
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Coffee Break |
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11::00 - 12:30 |
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Reasoning (Room Tramontana)
Ontology Alignment 1/2 (Room Pulenat)
Ontology Evolution (Room Levanta) |
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12:30 - 14:00 |
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Lunch Break |
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14:00 - 15:30 |
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Rules (Room Tramontana)
Ontology Alignment 2/2 (Room Pulenat)
Ontology Learning (Room Levanta)
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15:30 - 16:00 |
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Coffee Break |
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16:00 - 17:15 |
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Keynote (Room Bankada)
Usability and the Semantic Web
Anthony Jameson (DFKI and International University in Germany) |
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17:15 - 17:45 |
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Closing Ceremony (Room Bankada) |
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Conference Sessions
Ontology Engineering (Chair: Aldo Gangemi)
Room Tramontana, Tuesday, June 13th, 11:00-12:30
- Encoding Classifications into Lightweight Ontologies
Fausto Giunchiglia, Maurizio Marchese, Ilya Zaihrayeu
- A Method to Convert Thesauri to SKOS
Mark van Assem, Véronique Malaisé, Alistair Miles, Guus Schreiber
- Ontology Engineering Revisited: An Iterative Case Study
Christoph Tempich, H. Sofia Pinto, Steffen Staab
Semantic Annotation 1/2 (Chair: Martin Dzbor)
Room Pulenat, Tuesday, June 13th, 11:00-12:30
- DEMO - A Design Environment for Metadata Ontologies
Jens Hartmann, Elena Paslaru Bontas, Raul Palma, Asuncion Gomez-Perez
- Turning the Mouse Into a Semantic Device: The seMouse Experience
Jon Iturrioz, Sergio F. Anzuola, Oscar Díaz
- Annotated RDF
Octavian Udrea, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, V.S. Subrahmanian
Semantic Wiki and Blogging (Chair: Sebastian Schaffert)
Room Levanta, Tuesday, June 13th, 11:00-12:30
- Ideas and Improvements for Semantic Wikis
Jochen Fischer, Zeno Gantner, Manuel Stritt, Steffen Rendle, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
- WikiFactory: A Web Ontology-Based Application for Creating Domain-Oriented Wikis
Angelo Di Iorio, Valentina Presutti, Fabio Vitali
- Using Semantics to Enhance the Blogging Experience
Knud Möller, Uldis Bojars, John Breslin
Ontology Evaluation (Chair: H. Sofia Pinto)
Room Tramontana, Tuesday, June 13th, 14:00-15:30
- Towards a Complete OWL Ontology Benchmark
Li Ma, Yang Yang, Zhaomin Qiu, Guotong Xie, Yue Pan, Shengping Liu
- Modeling Ontology Evaluation
Aldo Gangemi, Carola Catenacci, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Jos Lehmann
- Benchmark Suites for Improving the RDF(S) Importers and Exporters of Ontology Development Tools
Raul Garcia-Castro, Asuncion Gomez-Perez
Semantic Annotation 2/2 (Chair: Siegfried Handschuh)
Room Pulenat, Tuesday, June 13th, 14:00-15:30
- An Environment for Semi-Automatic Annotation of Ontological Knowledge with Linguistic Content
Maria Teresa Pazienza, Armando Stellato
- Managing Information Quality in e-Science Using Semantic Web Technology
Alun Preece, Binling Jin, Edoardo Pignotti, Paolo Missier, Suzanne Embury, David Stead, Al Brown
- A Lexicon Model for Multilingual/Multimedia Ontologies
Paul Buitelaar, Michael Sintek, Malte Kiesel
Semantic Web Services (Chair: Jos de Bruin)
Room Levanta, Tuesday, June 13th, 14:00-15:30
- Matching Semantic Service Descriptions with Local Closed-World Reasoning
Stephan Grimm, Boris Motik, Chris Preist
- On the Semantics of Functional Descriptions of Web Services
Uwe Keller, Holger Lausen, Michael Stollberg
- Protocol Mediation for Adaptation in Semantic Web Services
Stuart Williams, Steven Battle, Javier Esplugas Cuadrado
Searching and Querying (Chair: Jeen Broekstra)
Room Tramontana, Tuesday, June 13th, 16:00-18:00
- Beagle++: Semantically Enhanced Searching and Ranking on the Desktop
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Stefania Ghita, Wolfgang Nejdl, Raluca Paiu
- RDFBroker: A Signature-Based High-Performance RDF Store
Michael Sintek, Malte Kiesel
- PowerAqua: Fishing the Semantic Web
Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria Uren
- Information Retrieval in Folksonomies: Search and Ranking
Andreas Hotho, Robert Jäschke, Christoph Schmitz, Gerd Stumme
Semantic Web Mining and Personalisation (Chair: Steffen Staab)
Room Pulenat, Tuesday, June 13th, 16:00-18:00
- Semantic Network Analysis of Ontologies
Bettina Hoser, Andreas Hotho, Robert Jäschke, Christoph Schmitz, Gerd Stumme
- Content Aggregation on Knowledge Bases Using Graph Clustering
Christoph Schmitz, Andreas Hotho, Robert Jäschke, Gerd Stumme
- Dynamic Assembly of Personalized Learning Content on the Semantic Web
Jelena Jovanovic, Dragan Gasevic, Vladan Devedzic
- Interactive Ontology-Based User Knowledge Acquisition: A Case Study
Lora Aroyo, Ronald Denaux, Vania Dimitrova, Michael Pye
Semantic Web Services, Trust and Policies (Chair: Terry Pane)
Room Levanta, Tuesday, June 13th, 16:00-18:00
- The Web Service Modeling Language WSML: An Overview
Jos de Bruijn, Holger Lausen, Axel Polleres, Dieter Fensel
- A Minimalist Approach to Semantic Annotations for Web Processes Compositions
Marco Pistore, Luca Spalazzi, Paolo Traverso
- WSTO: A Classification-Based Ontology for Managing Trust in Semantic Web Services
Stefania Galizia
- 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
Reasoning (Chair: Sean Bechhofer)
Room Tramontana, Wednesday, June 14th, 11:00-12:30
- Toward Multi-Viewpoint Reasoning with OWL Ontologies
Heiner Stuckenschmidt
- Variable-Strength Conditional Preferences for Ranking Objects in Ontologies
Thomas Lukasiewicz, Jörg Schellhase
- Visual Ontology Cleaning: Cognitive Principles and Applicability
Joaquín Borrego-Díaz, Antonia M. Chávez-González
Ontology Alignment 1/2 (Chair: Jérôme Euzenat)
Room Pulenat, Wednesday, June 14th, 11:00-12:30
- Matching Hierarchical Classifications with Attributes
Luciano Serafini, Stefano Zanobini, Simone Sceffer
- Community-Driven Ontology Matching
Anna V. Zhdanova, Pavel Shvaiko
- Empiric Merging of Ontologies - A Proposal of Universal Uncertainty Representation Framework
Vit Novacek, Pavel Smrz
Ontology Evolution (Chair: Peter Haase)
Room Levanta, Wednesday, June 14th, 11:00-12:30
- Repairing Unsatisfiable Concepts in OWL Ontologies
Aditya Kalyanpur, Bijan Parsia, Evren Sirin, Bernardo Cuenca-Grau
- Winnowing Ontologies Based on Application Use
Harith Alani, Steven Harris, Ben O'Neil
- Resolving Inconsistencies in Evolving Ontologies
Peter Plessers, Olga De Troyer
Rules (Chair: Heiner Stuckenschmidt)
Room Tramontana, Wednesday, June 14th, 14:00-15:30
- Effective Integration of Declarative Rules with External Evaluations for Semantic Web Reasoning
Thomas Eiter, Giovambattista Ianni, Roman Schindlauer, Hans Tompits
- A Metamodel and UML Profile for Rule-extended OWL DL Ontologies
Saartje Brockmans, Peter Haase, Pascal Hitzler, Rudi Studer
- Rules with Contextually Scoped Negation
Axel Polleres, Cristina Feier, Andreas Harth
Ontology Alignment 2/2 (Chair: Pavel Shvaiko)
Room Pulenat, Wednesday, June 14th, 14:00-15:30
- An Iterative Algorithm for Ontology Mapping Capable of Using Training Data
Andreas Hess
- Reconciling Concepts and Relations in Heterogeneous Ontologies
Chiara Ghidini, Luciano Serafini
- Towards Distributed Information Retrieval in the Semantic Web: Query Reformulation Using the oMAP Framework
Raphael Troncy, Umberto Straccia
Ontology Learning (Chair: Michael Sintek)
Room Levanta, Wednesday, June 14th, 14:00-15:30
- Automatic Extraction of Hierarchical Relations From Text
Ting Wang, Yaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Ji Wang
- An Infrastructure for Acquiring High Quality Semantic Metadata
Yuangui Lei, Marta Sabou, Vanessa Lopez, Jianhan Zhu, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta
- Extracting Instances of Relations From Web Documents Using Redundancy
Viktor de Boer, Maarten van Someren, Bob J. Wielinga
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