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Call for ontology matching systems participation

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OAEI-2009
Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative

in cooperation with the ISWC Ontology Matching workshop
October 25, 2009 - Chantilly, near Washington DC., USA

http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/

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BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Ontology matching is an important task for semantic system
interoperability. Yet it is not easy to assess the respective
qualities of available matching systems. The Ontology
Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) is a coordinated
international initiative set up for evaluating ontology
matching systems. OAEI campaigns consist of applying
matching systems to ontology pairs and evaluating their
results.

OAEI-2009 is the sixth OAEI campaign. It will consist
of five tracks gathering elleven test cases and different
evaluation modalities. The tracks cover:
(i) comparison track;
(ii) expressive ontologies;
(iii) directories and thesauri;
(iv) oriented matching;
(v) instance matching.


Anyone developing ontology matchers can participate by
evaluating their systems and sending the results to the
organizers. Tools for evaluating results and preliminary
test bench tuning are available. Final results of the
campaign will be presented at the Ontology Matching workshop
and published in the proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES
June 1st, 2009: First publication of test cases
June 22nd, 2009: Comments on test cases (any time before that date)
July 6th, 2009: Final publication of test cases
Sept. 1st, 2009: Preliminary results due (for interoperability-checking)
Sept. 28st, 2009: Participants send final results and supporting papers
Oct. 5th, 2009: Organizers publish results for comments
Oct. 25th, 2009: OM-2009 workshop + OAEI-2009 final results ready.


More about OAEI-2009: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/
More about OAEI: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/
More about OM-2009: http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/
More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/

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Download the OM-2009 flyer:
http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2009_flyer.pdf
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Cheers,
Pavel

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Pavel Shvaiko, Ph.D.
Innovation and Research Project Manager
TasLab - Informatica Trentina S.p.A.
Via G. Gilli, 2
38100 Trento - Italy