ISWC 2005

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ISWC 2005

• 4th International Semantic Web Conference
• Galway, Ireland, Nov.6-10, 2005
• http//iswc2005.semanticweb.org

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Statistics

• About 450 participants (3 from CZ)
• 4 invited talks
• 54 contributed talks
• from 217 submissions, 25 acceptance rate
• Industrial track talks
• 9 workshops, 4 tutorials
• Semantic Web Challenge
• 2 large satellite events
• RuleML conference
• OWL workshop

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Main impressions

• Move towards end-user web applications
• Mostly not-so-sophisticated semantics
• fewer hard-stuff logics papers
• ? Less business-oriented, more ludicrous
• applications focusing on entertainment and social
  life (maybe) more frequent than serious
  business ones
• people often mention FOAF, blogs, wikis,
  folksonomies

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Main topic areas

• Ontology mapping
• Semantic web services
• Social networks
• GUI and visualisation
• NLP techniques (semantic annotation and OL)
• RDF storage and retrieval
• (Especially) rule-based inference
• Ontology development (esp. patterns)
• Uncertainty processing (esp. Bayesian Networks)
• Trust and security

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Invited Talk 1

• Carole Goble (U. Manchester) Using the Semantic
  Web for e-Science - Inspiration, Incubation,
  Irritation
• focus on Bioinformatics different types of
  voluminous interlinked data, distributed fuzzy
  communities
• e-Science as Semantic Web Nursery before it is
  adopted by business
• RDF as interchange format, data integration
• Gene Ontology large, legacy, inexpressive
• BioPAX, SciFOAF, myGrid (SWS)
• different views of ontological engineering in
  Comp.Sci. vs. biology communities need for
  design patterns etc.

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Invited Talk 2

• Alfred Spector (IBM) The Practical Web" -
  Semantic Acceleration Helping Realize the
  Semantic Web Vision
• UIMA project integration of different text
  analytics tools
• cooperation with e.g. GATE
• relation extraction considered critical
• use in DARPA GALE project
• seeking for academic contributors

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Invited Talks 3 and 4

• Daniel J. Weitzner (MIT) Semantic Web Public
  Policy Challenges Privacy, Provenance, Property
  and Personhood
• Tim Berners-Lee (W3C) Web of Rules Discussing
  whether knowledge can be represented in a
  web-like way using rules, so as to derive
  serendipitous benefit from the unplanned reuse of
  such knowledge

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Contributed Talks

• P. Mika Ontologies are us
• A. Bernstein et al. Querying Ontologies
• P. Avesani et al. A Large Scale Taxonomy Mapping
  Evaluation
• J. Voelker et al. Automatic Evaluation of
  Ontologies (AEON)
• H. Wang et al. Debugging Ontologies
• D. Hyunh et al. Piggy Bank

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Contributed Talks

• B. Kettler et al. Template-based Markup
• J. Starz et al The Concept Object Web
• L. Ding et al. Finding and Ranking K
• M. OConnor et al. SWRL
• M. Ehrig et al. Bootstrapping Ontology Alignment
  Methods with APFEL
• W. R. von Hage A Method to Combine Linguistic
  Ontology-Mapping Techniques

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Contributed Talks

• G. Stoilos et al. A String Metric for Ontology
  Alignment
• A. Schutz, P. Buitelaar RelExt A Tool for
  Relation Extraction from Text
• F. Gandon Graph-based inferences
• A. Gangemi Ontology Design Patterns
• 2 talks on O.Mapping with uncertainty!
• L. Sauerman, S. Schwartz Gnowsis Adapter
  Framework

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Future Conferences

• Next editions
• ISWC06 Athens, Georgia, USA (by LSDIS)
• ISWC07 South Korea (by DERI Korea)
• Other conferences ( same community)
• ESWC06 Budva, Montenegro, June 2006
• EKAW06 Podebrady, CZ, October 2006