Every year the International Workshop on Evaluation of Semantic Technologies (IWEST) brings together researchers and practitioners dealing with di erent aspects of semantic technology evaluation. The rst edition of the workshop was held in 2010, building on the success of the International Workshop on Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON) workshop series initiated in 2002.
The aims of the IWEST workshop are twofold. Firstly, to initiate discussion about the current trends and future challenges of evaluating semantic technologies. Secondly, to support communication and collaboration with the goal of aligning the various evaluation e orts within the community and accelerating innovation in all the associated elds.
This volume contains the papers accepted for publication in IWEST 2012. The workshop received 6 submissions, which were reviewed by at least three Program Committee members; 5 papers were selected as a result of this process.
We would like to take the opportunity to express our gratitude to the Program Committee members, to the SEALS European project who kindly has supported this years edition of IWEST as sponsor, and to all the researchers that have contributed in making the IWEST workshop a forum around semantic technology evaluation.
May 2012
Organization
Raul Garc a-Castro (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Lyndon Nixon (STI International, Austria) Stuart Wrigley (University of She eld, UK)
Paul Buitelaar (DERI) Philipp Cimiano (University of Bielefeld) Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid) Mathieu d'Aquin (Open University) Thierry Declerck (DFKI) Jer^ome Euzenat (INRIA) Ning Li (Open University) Francisco Mart n-Recuerda (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid) Christian Meilicke (Universitat Mannheim) Natasha Noy (Stanford University) Filip Radulovic (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid) Pavel Shvaiko (Informatica Trentina) Cassia Trojahn dos Santos (INRIA) Mikalai Yatsevich (Oxford University)
Semantic Evaluation At Large Scale FP7 project (RI-238975) http://www.seals-project.eu/ Multilingual Ontology Matching Evaluation { A First Report on using MultiFarm : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Christian Meilicke, Cassia Trojahn, Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, and Dominique Ritze Evaluating Semantic Search Systems to Identify Future Directions of Research : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Khadija Elbedweihy, Stuart N. Wrigley, Fabio Ciravegna, Dorothee Reinhard, and Abraham Bernstein Using WS-BPEL for Automation of Semantic Web Service Tools Evaluation : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Serge Tymaniuk, Ioan Toma, and Liliana Cabral 1 13 25 37 49