ISWC ASWC th International Semantic Web Conference Busan, South Korea, Nov ,

Statistics About 540 participants from 30 countries 3 invited talks Research track –257 submissions, an 18% increase –50 accepted (19% acceptance rate) »(215, 52, 24%) In-Use Track –29 submissions –12 accepted (41% acceptance rate) »(42, 14, 33%)

Invited talks Brewster Kahle: Universal Access to Human Knowledge (Or Public Access to Digital Materials) Barney Pell: Natural Language and the Semantic Web Chris Welty: How I was right even when I was wrong

Semantic Web Challenge Goal: to apply Semantic Web techniques in building online end-user applications that integrate, combine and deduce information needed to assist users in performing task Certain minimum criteria: –Meaning of data has to play a central role –Heterogeneous information sources, under diverse control –Open world assumption (information is never complete) –(multi-media, commercial potential, scalability, dynamic data) Semantic Web Challenge –23 submitted Semantic Web applications –19 accepted

Semantic Web Challenge... GroupMe! - Where Semantic Web meets Web 2.0 JeromeDL – a Semantic Digital Library CHIP Demonstrator: Semantics-driven Recommendations and Museum Tour Generation Potluck: Semi-Ontology Alignment for Casual Users Revyu.com: a Reviewing and Rating Site for the Web of Data

Doctoral consortium 6 papers 6 posters Full-day session Each student one mentor Invited talk by Fabio Ciravegna Best-student paper:Katharina Reinecke: Cultural Adaptivity for the Semantic Web Best mentor: Elena Simperl

Workshops 7 workshops on Sunday –Ontology Matching workshop –Evaluation of Ontologies and Ontology-based tools 6 workshops on Monday –Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web + ‘Consensus Building Workshop’

Ontology Matching technical papers (26 submissions, 30%) Solving semantic ambiquity to improve semantic web based Ontology Matching –Sabou et al. –Word sense disambiguation to improve precision Analyzing Mapping Extraction Approaches –Meilicke et al. –How to extract final alignment from a matrix of similarity values Towards semantics-based Ontology similarity –Pinto et al. –new semantic ontology similarity measures

Ontology Matching 2007 Ontology Mapping – a user survey –Noy et al. –Results of online user survey –User context questions, tool questions, process questions Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2007 (OAEI) Jérôme Euzenat et al: First Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative papers about systems (ASMOV,Falcon,Lily,OntoDNA,OLA,SEMA,...) Poster session: 9 posters

Evaluation of Ontologies and Ontology-based tools 7 contributions Diverse topics –Metrics for evaluation ontologies –Semantic search engines: swoogle, OntoKhoj, OntoSelect –Ontology summarization –Evaluation of ontology-matching systems using samples (satisfaction of user) –Evaluation with synthetic workload

Panel discussion Moderator: Guus Schreiber Panelists: –Carole Goble –Jim Hendler –Dieter Fensel –Abraham Bernstein –Frank van Harmelen –5 questions

Research papers Winner paper by FORTH-ICS: On the foundations of computing deltas between RDF models –Zeginis et al. All contributions are on-line

Next events ISWC 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany ISWC 2009, Washington DC, USA