ECAI-2004 Workshop on Ontology Learning and Population

Valencia - Spain 22/08/2004 -24/08/2004

Automatic methods for text-based ontology learning and population have developed over recent years (e.g. results from the ECAI-2000, IJCAI-2001, ECAI-2002 workshops on Ontology Learning and the KCAP-2001, ECAI-2002, KCAP-2003 workshops on Knowledge Markup / Ontology Population), but a remaining challenge is to evaluate in a quantitative manner how useful or accurate the extracted ontology classes, properties and instances are. In fact, this is a central issue as it is currently very hard to compare methods and approaches, due to the lack of a shared understanding of the task at hand. The core theme of the workshop therefore will be to develop such a shared understanding through the definition of a clear task (and corresponding sub-tasks), identify resources needed for the task/sub-tasks and to discuss how best to develop an open source evaluation platform.

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