Schedule

 

Registration (August 31)

MONDAY, August 31

5:00pm - 7:00pm Registration Open (Pool Side)

 

Workshops and Tutorials (September 1)

TUESDAY, September 1

8:00am - 7:00pm
Registration Open (Redondo Foyer)
8:30am - 9:00am
Continental Breakfast (Redondo Foyer)
9:00-9:30 Workshop:
Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup (SAAKM)
Redondo 2/3
9:30-10:30 -- continue -- Workshop:
Analyzing Social Media to Represent Collective Knowledge
Mezzanine
Tutorial:
Developing OWL Ontologies with Protege 4
Redondo 1
10:30-11:00 Coffee break (Redondo Foyer)
11:00-12:30 -- continue -- -- continue -- -- continue --
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 -- continue -- Tutorial:
Extreme Design (XD): Pattern-based Ontology Design
Redondo 1
3:30-4:00 Coffee break (Redondo Foyer)
4:00-5:00 (5:30) -- continue -- -- continue --

 

Main Conference (September 2 - 4)

WEDNESDAY, September 2

8:00am-7:00pm
Redondo Foyer
Registration Open
8:30-9:00
Redondo Foyer
Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15
Redondo
Welcome
9:15-10:15
Redondo
Session 1: Keynote talk
Chair: Yolanda Gil
Machine Reading: from Wikipedia to the Web, Dan Weld
10:15-10:45
Redondo Foyer
Coffee break
10:45-12:15
Redondo
Session 2: Interactive systems
Chair: Andreas Hotho
Thomas Franz, Ansgar Scherp and Steffen Staab. Are Semantic Desktops Better?
W. Bradley Knox and Peter Stone. Interactively Shaping Agents via Human Reinforcement: The TAMER Framework
Vanessa Lopez, Marta Sabou, Victoria Uren and Enrico Motta. Cross Ontology Query Answering on the Semantic Web: An Initial Evaluation
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00
Redondo
Session 3: Ontologies and Vocabularies I
Chair: Mark Musen
Anna Tordai, Jacco van Ossenbruggen and Guus Schreiber. Combining Vocabulary Alignment Techniques
Mauricio Espinoza, Elena Montiel-Ponsoda and Asunción Gómez-Pérez. Ontology Localization
Eva Blomqvist, Aldo Gangemi and Valentina Presutti. Experiments on Pattern-based Ontology Design
3:00-3:30
Redondo Foyer
Coffee break
3:30-5:00
Redondo
Session 4: Knowledge extraction I
Chair: Peter Clark
Doo Soon Kim, Ken Barker And Bruce Porter. Knowledge integration across multiple texts
Hakki Cankaya and Dan Moldovan. Method for Extracting Commonsense Knowledge
Kate Lockwood and Kenneth Forbus. Multimodal Knowledge Capture from Text and Diagrams
6:00-8:00
Seascape
Poster reception

 

THURSDAY, September 3

8:00am-9:00am
Redondo Foyer
Registration Open
8:30-9:00
Redondo Foyer
Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00
Redondo
Session 5: Keynote talk
Chair: Natasha Noy
Web Science: A New Frontier, Nigel Shadbolt
10:00-10:30
Redondo Foyer
Coffee break
10:30-12:00
Redondo
Session 6: Analyzing knowledge and knowledge-based systems
Chair: Oscar Corcho
Paul Doran, Valentina Tamma, Terry Payne and Ignazio Palmisano. An entropy measure for evaluating ontology modularization
Frank van Harmelen, Annette ten Teije and Holger Wache. Knowledge Engineering rediscovered: Towards Reasoning Patterns for the Semantic Web
Markus Strohmaier and Mark Kröll. Studying Databases of Intentions: Do Search Query Logs Capture Knowledge about Common Human Goals?
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00
Redondo
Session 7: Learning
Chair: Dan Moldovan
Jose Iria. Automating Knowledge Capture in the Aerospace Domain
Katrin Tomanek and Udo Hahn. Reducing Class Imbalance During Active Learning for Named Entity Annotation
Negin Nejati, Tolga Konik and Ugur Kuter. A Goal- and Dependency-Directed Algorithm for Learning Hierarchical Task Networks
3:00-3:30
Redondo Foyer
Coffee break
3:30-4:30
Redondo
Session 8: Capturing workflows
Chair: Valentina Tamma
Yolanda Gil, Jihie Kim, Gonzalo Florez, Varun Ratnakar and Pedro Gonzalez-Calero. Workflow Discovery Using Semantic Metadata
Mark Burstein, Fusun Yaman, Robert Laddaga and Robert Bobrow. POIROT: Acquiring workflows by combining models learned from interpreted traces
7:00-11:00 Conference banquet

 

FRIDAY, September 4

8:30-9:00
Redondo Foyer
Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00
Redondo
Session 9: Ontologies and Vocabularies II
Chair: Guus Schreiber
Ansgar Scherp, Thomas Franz, Carsten Saathoff and Steffen Staab. F---A Model of Events based on the Foundational Ontology DOLCE+DnS Ultralite
Mathieu d'Aquin. Formally Measuring Agreement and Disagreement in Ontologies
10:00-10:30
Redondo Foyer
Coffee break
10:30-11:30
Redondo
Session 10: Knowledge extraction II
Chair: Ken Barker
Peter Clark and Phil Harrison. Large-Scale Extraction and Use of Knowledge From Text
Rahul Bhagat and Eduard Hovy. Acquiring Paraphrases from Text Corpora
11:30-12:00
Redondo
Session 11: Awards, closing