Ontology
Learning
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The Second Workshop on Ontology Learning OL-2001 will be held in conjunction with IJCAI-2001, Seattle, USA.
Some of the outcome :-)
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Dear Colleagues: I was able to take an impromptu picture of *some* of the participants at the ECAI 2000 Ontology Learning workshop. I apologize for those who were not included. I hope you enjoy the picture. Best regards, -- Andrew |
Some of the input :-)
Ontologies serve as a means for establishing a conceptually concise basis for communicating knowledge for many purposes. Previous, successful workshops on ontology engineering and problem-solving methods have shown that there is a huge interest in the area of engineering ontologies for a very wide range of interesting applications and, in fact, the community in that field is steadily growing. Also in recent years, we have seen a surge of interest in other fields than ontology engineering that tackle the discovery and automatic creation of complex, multirelational knowledge structures. For example, the natural language community tries to acquire word semantics from natural language texts, database researchers tackle the problem of schema induction, and people building intelligent information agents research the learning of complex structures from semi-structured input (HTML, XML). All the while, efforts in the machine learning community pursue the induction of more concise and more expressive knowledge structures (e.g., relational learning) in general. Traditionally, there has been only very few interactions between these groups in spite of the fact that they all try to learn conceptual structures, which are termed ``schemata'', ``concept hierarchies'' or ``heterarchies'', ``conceptual patterns'', or ``ontologies'' -- depending on which community you talk to. We aim at furthering, or even establishing, communication between these communities through our workshop on ontology learning.
Further Information:
Motivation & Workshop Description
Accepted Papers & Tentative Workshop Schedule
Electronic Proceedings
(published at CEUR Workshop Proceedings on http://SunSITE.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE/Publications/CEUR-WS/ )
| Steffen Staab | Alexander Maedche |
| AIFB, Karlsruhe University | AIFB, Karlsruhe University |
| 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany | 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany |
| email: sst@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de | email: ama@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de |
| http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sst | http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ama |
| phone: +49-721-608 7363 | phone: +49-721-608 6558 |
| fax: +49-721-608 - 6580 | fax: +49-721-608 - 6580 |
| Claire Nedellec | Peter Wiemer-Hastings |
| Inference and Machine Learning Group | Division of Informatics |
| LRI, Bat 490 | University of Edinburgh |
| Université Paris Sud | 2 Buccleuch Place |
| 91405-ORSAY, France | Edinburgh EH8 9LW, UK |
| phone: +33 (0)1 69 15 66 26 | phone: (901)678-3529 |
| fax:+33 (0)1 69 15 65 86 | |
| email: cn@lri.fr | email: peterwh@cogsci.ed.ac.uk |
| http://www.lri.fr/~cn |
| Illarramendi Echave Arantxa | Universidad del Pais Vasco, San Sebastian, Spain |
| Dieter Fensel | Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL |
| Nicola Guarino | National Research Council, Padova, Italy |
| Asuncion Gomez-Perez | Facultad de Informatica, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid , Spain |
| Udo Hahn | CLIF, University of Freiburg, Germany |
| Ian Horrocks | University of Manchester, UK |
| Ed Hovy | Information Science Institute, USA |
| Paul Johannesson | University of Stockholm, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Sweden |
| Jörg-Uwe Kietz | Swiss Life, Zurich, Switzerland |
| Yves Kodratoff | LRI, France |
| Robert Meersman | Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium |
| Christine Parent | University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Marie-Christine Rousset | LRI, France |
| Rudi Studer | Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany |
| Stefan Wrobel | University of Magdeburg, Germany |