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Preliminary program as handout sheet in pdf

In parallel to the proceedings officially published by Springer in print and electronic version as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, electronic proceedings form ESWC 2007 are available here for free access. The official LNCS proceedings can be accessed at http://www.springerlink.com.

Tutorials

Sunday June 3rd, 2007

9:00 - 18:00 Hall Igls
SPARQL -- Where are we? Current state, theory and practice

9:00 - 18:00 Hall Maximilian
SemDL - Semantic Digital Libraries

9:00 - 18:00 Hall New Orleans
Semantic BPM - The Integration of Business Process Management and Semantic Web Services

9:00 - 12:30 Hall Freiburg 1
Inductive Logic Programming Approaches to Ontology and Rule Acquisition for the Semantic Web

9:00 - 12:30 Hall Freiburg 2
Annotation for the Semantic Web

14:00 - 18:00 Hall Freiburg 1
Semantic Web Technologies for Knowledge Management in Large Distributed Organizations

14:00 - 18:00 Hall Freiburg 2
Managing Uncertainty and Vagueness in Semantic Web Language

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break Kristall Foyer

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Kristall Foyer

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee breaks Kristall Foyer




Monday June 4th, 2007

Opening (8:45-9:00)
(Innsbruck Hall) Enrico Franconi
Welcome note from the Vice-Rector of the University of Innsbruck: Tilman Märk

Invited Talk (9:00-10:00)
(Innsbruck Hall)
  • Stefano Ceri: Design Abstractions for Innovative Web Applications: the case of the SOA augmented with Semantics [pdf]
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

Paper Presentations:

Semantic Web Services (10:30-12:30)
(Strassburg Hall) Ontology Learning, Inference and Mapping I (10:30-12:30)
(Innsbruck Hall)
  • Martin Hepp and Jos de Bruijn. GenTax: A Generic Methodology for Deriving OWL and RDF-S Ontologies from Hierarchical Classifications, Thesauri, and Inconsistent Taxonomies [pdf]

  • Krys Kochut and Maciej Janik. SPARQLeR: Extended Sparql for Semantic Association Discovery [pdf]

  • Eyal Oren, Sebastian Gerke and Stefan Decker. Simple Algorithms for Predicate Suggestions using Similarity and Co-Occurrence [pdf]

  • Johanna Voelker, Denny Vrandecic, York Sure and Andreas Hotho. Learning Disjointness [pdf]
Case Studies (10:30-12:30)
(Grenoble Hall) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

Invited Talk (14:00-15:00)
(Innsbruck Hall)
  • Ning Zhong: Ways to Develop Human-Level Web Intelligence: A Brain Informatics Perspective [pdf]
Best Papers (15:00-16:00)
(Innsbruck Hall) 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

Paper Presentations:

Social Semantic Web (16:30-18:00)
(Strassburg Hall) Ontologies: Requirements and Analysis (16:30-18:00)
(Innsbruck Hall)
  • Timo Weithöner, Thorsten Liebig, Marko Luther, Sebastian Böhm, Friedrich von Henke and Olaf Noppens. Real-world Reasoning with OWL [pdf]

  • Denny Vrandecic and York Sure. How to design better ontology metrics [pdf]

  • Xi Deng, Volker Haarslev and Nematollaah Shiri. Measuring Inconsistencies in Ontologies [pdf]
Personalization I (16:30-18:00)
(Grenoble Hall)
  • Alistair Duke, Tim Glover and John Davies. Squirrel: An Advanced Semantic Search and Browse Facility [pdf]

  • Osma Suominen, Kim Viljanen and Eero Hyvönen. User-centric Faceted Search for Semantic Portals [pdf]

  • Rafael Liberato Roberto and Sergio Roberto da Silva. An Approach for Identification of Users' Intentions During the Navigation in Semantic Websites [pdf]
18:00 (Kristall Foyer)
Preparation of Demos, System Descriptions, and Posters

19:00 (Kristall Foyer)
Demos, System Descriptions, and Posters Reception with fi ngerfood and beverage




Tuesday June 5th, 2007

Invited Talk (9:00-10:00)
(Innsbruck Hall)
  • Georg Gottlob: The Lixto systems applications in Business Intelligence and Semantic Web [pdf]
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

Paper Presentations:

Foundations of the Semantic Web (10:30-12:30)
(Strassburg Hall) Natural Languages and Ontologies (10:30-12:30)
(Innsbruck Hall)
  • Anastasia Karanastasi and Stavros Christodoulakis. Ontology-Driven Semantic Ranking for Natural Language Disambiguation in the OntoNL Framework [pdf]

  • Norbert Fuchs and Rolf Schwitter. Web-Annotations for Humans and Machines [pdf]

  • Chong Wang, Miao Xiong, Qi Zhou and Yong Yu. PANTO: A Portable Natural Language Interface to Ontologies [pdf]

  • Peyman Sazedj and Helena Sofia Pinto. Mining the web through verbs: a case study [pdf]
Applications (10:30-12:30)
(Genoble Hall) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

Invited Talk (14:00-15:00)
(Innsbruck Hall)
  • Ron Brachman: Emerging Sciences of the Internet: Some New Opportunities [pdf]
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

Paper Presentations:

Querying and Web Data Models (15:30-17:30)
(Strassburg Hall) Ontology Learning, Inference and Mapping II (15:30-17:30)
(Innsbruck Hall)
  • Lucia Specia and Enrico Motta. Integrating Folksonomies with the Semantic Web [pdf]

  • Norberto Fernandez Garcia, Jose Maria Blazquez del Toro, Luis Sanchez Fernandez and Ansgar Bernardi. IdentityRank: Named Entity Disambiguation in the Context of the NEWS Project [pdf]

  • Ondrej Svab, Vojtech Svatek and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. A Study in Empirical and 'Casuistic' Analysis of Ontology Mapping Results [pdf]

  • Johanna Voelker, Pascal Hitzler and Philipp Cimiano. Acquisition of OWL DL Axioms from Lexical Resources [pdf]
Personalization II (15:30-17:30)
(Grenoble Hall)
  • Kay-Uwe Schmidt, Ljiljana Stojanovic, Nenad Stojanovic, and Susan Thomas. On Enriching Ajax with Semantics: The Web Personalization Use Case [pdf]

  • Stefan Dietze, Alessio Gugliotta and John Domingue. A Semantic Web Service oriented Framework for adaptive Learning Environments [pdf]

  • Naouel Karam, Serge Linckels and Christoph Meinel. Semantic Composition of Lecture Subparts for a Personalized e-Learning [pdf]
20:00 Conference Dinner
(Dogana Hall) Including closing ceremony




Workshops

Wednesday June 6th, 2007

9:00 - 18:00 Hall Freiburg 1
3rd International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE 2007)

9:00 - 18:00 Hall Igls
Scripting for the Semantic Web

9:00 - 13:00 Hall Freiburg 2
OWL-S Experiences and Future Developments

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break Kristall Foyer

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Kristall Foyer

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break Kristall Foyer

Thursday June 7th, 2007

9:00 - 18:00 Hall Maximilian
SemBPM 2007 - Workshop on Semantic Business Process and Product Lifecycle Management

9:00 - 18:00 Hall Igls
Bridging the Gap between Semantic Web and Web 2.0

9:00 - 13:00 Hall Freiburg 1
Semantic Desktop Design

14:00 - 18:00 Hall Freiburg 2
Ontology Dynamics (IWOD)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break Kristall Foyer

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Kristall Foyer

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break Kristall Foyer

     
 
     
 
     
     

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03 - 07 June | 2007 | Innsbruck | Austria