EKAW0816th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge ManagementAcitrezza, Italy 29. September - 3. October 2006http://ekaw2008.inrialpes.fr

The EKAW seriesHistoryStarted as European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop in 1987From 1992 proceedings in LNCS, from 2000 denoted as conferenceOriginally annual, then each 1,5 year, most recently biannual - alternation with K-CAP conference oversea (originally KAW Banff workshop)Previous: EKAW 2006, Podbrady, CZEstablished community, friendly athmosphere, often location beyond big cities

Focus of the seriesKnowledge engineering in narrow senseKnowledge AcquisitionKnowledge Modelling (Problem Solving Methods, Ontological Engineering)KBS designRecently strong influence by Semantic Web topicsSpecial focus of the 2008 edition: knowledge patterns; in general, the centre of gravity was ontological engineering

Some statistics of EKAW 2008102 full paper submissionssmall decrease wrt. 2006 (119) but possibly due to fewer venture papers only attracted by LNCS indexed by Thomsons at that time32 accepted (31% acceptance rate)17 long and 15 short papersPosters/demossome rejected papers directly accepted for posters, some further submitted at later stage21 posters/demos accepted altogetherAbout 80 registered participants

Overall Programme3 invited talks2 tutorialsIndustrial half-day with panelSessions with contributed papers (single track)Poster/demo sessionSocial eventsWelcome Party (in the hotel)Trip to EtnaSocial dinner & dance party in former manufacturing plant in Catania

Invited talksPeter Clark: Knowledge PatternsDefining specific concepts as compositions of more generic onesModelling space flight simulation using generic patterns, e.g. electric circuit as distribution network (a la ontology content design patterns)Johan Bos: Computational Semantics and Knowledge EngineeringRecent advances in computational linguistics and theorem proving made deep analysis of text and subsequent reasoning possible!(And low-hanging fruit is gone now anyway)Use of background knowledge: WordNet, NomLex, CIA, FB, CyCGuus Schreiber: Principles for Knowledge Engineering on the Web

Industrial half-dayInvited talk: R. Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research): Towards semantic searchFrom web of pages to web of objectsFocus of Y!: microformats, flicker tags, related entities, info from clicksPanel:P. Clark (Boeing), C. Shankey (Reinvent), J. M. Gomez-Perez (iSOCO), F. Fabbrocini (IBM)Hot topics: online advertising, semwiki, expertise location, intranet search, info integration + interoperability, enterprise processes, IP managementoften: semantics yes, but with DBs, not with OWL

Research papersEgana et al.: Applying ontology design patterns in Bio-ontologiesModelling modifiersAguado et al.: NL-based Approach for Helping in the Reuse of ODPsLinguistic templates used to characterise OWL constructsHoekstra & Breuker: Polishing Diamonds in OWL 2Case study in using patterns in OWL 2 modelling in the legal domainScharffe & Fensel: Correspondence Patterns for Ontology AlignmentStructures arising when (smartly) aligning ontologiesMeilicke, Volker, Stuckenschmidt: Learning disjointness for Debugging Mappings between Lightweight OntologiesMochol, Jentzsch: Towards a Rule-Based Matcher Selectionrule-based recommending of mining toolRamakrishnan et al.: Unsupervised Discovery of Compound Entities for Relationship Extraction

Papers contdOntology for collaborative ontology development workflows (Stanford)2 talks on product taxonomies (M. Hepp)

KEGs contributions:Long paper on detection of name/structural patternsPoster on competitive intelligence reporting (Porter)Poster on provenance modelling in ontologies

Next editionEKAW 2010Autumn 2010, Lisbon, PortugalConference Co-Chairs: Helena Sofia Pinto (Technical University of Lisbon) + Philipp Cimiano (AIFB Karlsruhe)