Schedule

 

9.00 - 10.40 Session I

9.00 Introduction

9.10 Learning Ontologies using (Euro)Wordnet

A. Wagner: Enriching a lexical semantic net with selectional preferences by means of statistical corpus analysis. (20 min presentation + 10 min discussion)

E. Agirre, O. Ansa, E. Hovy, D. Martinez: Enriching very large ontologies using the WWW. (20 min presentation + 10 min discussion)

10.10 Using Clustering for Ontology Learning

G.Bisson, C. Nedellec and D. Canamero: Designing Clustering Methods for Ontology Building - The Mo'K Workbench (20 min presentation + 10 min discussion)

10.40 Coffee Break

11.00-12.45 Session II - Ontology learning for information extraction & retrieval

D. Faure and T. Poibeau: First experiments of using semantic knowledge learned by ASIUM for information extraction task using INTEX (20 min presentation + 15 min discussion)

A. Todirascu, F. de Beuvron, D. Galea, F. Rousselot: Using Description Logics for Ontology Extraction. (20 min presentation + 15 min discussion)

G. de Chaelandar and B. Grau: SVETLAN' - A System to Classify Words in Context. (20 min presentation + 15 min discussion)

12.45 - 13.50 Lunch Break

13.50 - 15.10 Session III - Ontology learning from ground instances

A.B Williams and C. Tsatsoulis: An Instance-based Approach for Identifying Candidate Ontology Relations within a Multi-Agent System (20 min presentation + 15 min discussion)

H. Suryanto and P. Compton: Learning Classification taxonomies from a classification knowledge based system. (20 min presentation + 15 min discussion)

15.10 - 15.30 Coffee Break

15.30 - 17.10 Poster Presentations, Joint Session with workshop on "Applications of Ontologies and Problem-solving Methods"

C. Roux, D. Proux, F. Rechenmann and L. Julliar: An Ontology Enrichment Method for a Pragmatic Information Extraction System gathering Data on Genetic Interactions

J. Bucha: On Efficiency of Learning: A Framework and Justification.

J. Alvarez: A General Framework for Theory Learning. Perspectives for NLP

A. Faatz, T. Kamps, R. Steinmetz: Background Knowledge, Indexing and Matching Interdependencies of Document Management and Ontology-Maintenance

17.20 - 18.00 Closing Discussion