Integrating Ontologies Workshop Proceedings K-Cap Conference October 2, 2005 Banff, Canada Table of Contents The Integrating Ontologies Workshop at K-CAP 2005 1 Benjamin Ashpole, Marc Ehrig, Jérôme Euzenat, and Heiner Stuckenschmidt Reverse Leibniz, and then Bend It Like Beckham: Temporal Ontology Mapping as Problem-Solving Method 2 Hans Akkermans Towards Browsing Distant Metadata Using Semantic Signatures 10 Andrew Choi and Marek Hatala Semantic Association of Taxonomy-based Standards Using Ontology 18 Hung-Ju Chu, Randy Y. C. Chow, Su-Shing Chen, Raja R.A. Issa, and Ivan Mutis Relaxed Precision and Recall for Ontology Matching 25 Marc Ehrig and Jérôme Euzenat Searching Web Resources Using Ontology Mappings 33 Dragan Gasevic and Marek Hatala GMO: A Graph Matching for Ontologies 41 Wei Hu, Ningsheng Jian, Yuzhong Qu, and Yanbing Wang Towards Semantic Based Information Exchange and Integration Standards: the art-E-fact ontology as an extension to the CIDOC CRM (ISO/CD 21127) Standard 49 Carlos Lamsfus, María Teresa Linaza, and Tim Smithers An approach to ontology mapping negotiation 54 Nuno Silva, Paulo Maio, and João Rocha Introduction to the Ontology Alignment Evaluation 2005 61 Jérôme Euzenat, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, and Mikalai Yatskevich FOAM – Framework for Ontology Alignment and Mapping Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 72 Marc Ehrig and York Sure CROSI Mapping System (CMS) Results of the 2005 Ontology Alignment Contest 77 Yannis Kalfoglou and Bo Hu FalconAO: Aligning Ontologies with Falcon 85 Ningsheng Jian, Wei Hu, Gong Cheng, and Yuzhong Qu oMAP: Results of the Ontology Alignment Contest 92 Umberto Straccia and Raphael Troncy OLA in the OAEI 2005 alignment contest 97 Jérôme Euzenat, Philippe Guégan, and Petko Valtchev The Integrating Ontologies Workshop at K-CAP 2005 Benjamin Ashpole Jérôme Euzenat Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories INRIA Rhône-Alpes Marc Ehrig Heiner Stuckenschmidt University of Karlsruhe Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam INTRODUCTION Like any software research endeavor, the study of auto- The Integrating Ontologies Workshop is a forum for re- mated ontology alignment will most clearly demonstrate searchers and application developers from the area of on- progress through rigorous experimentation. The ontology tology interoperability to exchange knowledge, ideas, alignment research community has embraced this chal- approaches, and challenges for handling multiple compet- lenge, having conducted collaborative experiments to ing ontologies. The workshop will facilitate methodo- compare their respective alignment tools on a standard set logical and technical discussions. of ontology pairs. The results of these experiments have For many knowledge domains, a variety of ostensibly established clear performance benchmarks and informed “standard” ontologies have been engineered, learned, and new approaches to ontology alignment. extended. Each is an interface for a similar purpose yet The Integrating Ontology Workshop includes discussion uses different nomenclatures. To enable collaboration of the third such experiment since 2004, following the within and across application domains, software agents Information Interpretation and Integration Conference1 and require transparency between the various formalisms. This the Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools Workshop.2 requires both semantic alignment and syntactical transla- tion. Purely manual approaches are error-prone, onerous, This workshop also features research presentations de- and insufficient to support dynamic systems interoperabil- scribing the latest efforts for ontology alignment and me- ity. diation. However, recent research in ontology alignment exploits Further information on the Integrating Ontology Work- “meaning” that is explicit and implicit in these formal- shop and the ontology alignment experiment can be found isms. If heterogeneity can be mitigated with minimal use on the workshop website.3 of standards by way of partially or fully automated Thanks to all the members of the program committee, alignment, then the integration of and for commercial, authors, experiment participants and local organizers for non-profit, military, and government systems will be their efforts. The workshop represents significant coop- simplified and improved. This workshop will exhibit new eration and progress on many levels. approaches to alignment, mediation, and other methods that promise to help fulfil the vision of the Semantic Web. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies 1 are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy http://www.atl.external.lmco.com/projects/ontology/i3con otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, .html requires prior specific permission by the copyright owners. 2 http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2004/ Copyright 2005 3 http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/intont2005 1 Organizing Committee Benjamin Ashpole, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Lab Marc Ehrig, University of Karlsruhe Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam special thanks to Mikalai Yatskevich (University of Trento), who supported us for the evaluation Program Committee Dean Allemang (TopQuadrant Inc.) Jos de Bruijn (DERI Innsbruck) Oscar Corcho (University of Manchester) Christine Golbreich (University Rennes 1) Lewis Hart (Applied Minds) Todd Hughes (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs) Ryutaro Ichise (NII, Tokyo) Yannis Kalfoglou (University of Southampton) Deborah McGuinness (Stanford University) Natasha Noy (Stanford University) Amit Sheth (University of Georgia and Semagix) Pavel Shvaiko (University of Trento) Michael Sintek (DFKI, Kaiserslautern) Umberto Straccia (CNR) York Sure (University of Karlsruhe) Mike Uschold (Boeing Corp.) Petko Valtchev (DIRO, Université de Montréal) Acknowledgement This workshop along with its organizers is partially supported by the Knowledge Web European network of excellence (IST-2004-507482).