Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition

Papers from the 2006 AAAI Fall Symposium

Vasant Honavar and Tim Finin, Program Cochairs

Technical Report FS-06-06. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California

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Regular Papers

A General Strategy for Knowledge Acquisition from Semantically Heterogeneous Data Sources / 1
Doina Caragea, Jie Bao, and Vasant Honavar

A Case Study in Applying Semantic Web Technologies to the XML-Based Tactical Assessment Markup Language (TAML) / 9
Candace Childers, Don Brutzman, Curtis Blais, and Paul Young

A Hybrid Method for Image Taxonomy: Using CAPTCHA for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition / 17
Bruno Norberto da Silva and Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia

Collaborative Knowledge Discovery in Databases: A Knowledge Exchange Perspective / 24
Claudia Diamantini, Domenica Potena, and Waleed W. Smari

Experimenting Ontology Web Services / 32
Maurizio Giordano and Mario Mango Furnari

AIMS: Agent-based Information Management System / 40
Srikanth Kallurkar, Donald Steiner, Apperson Johnson, and Robert Flo

Uncertainty Handling in the Context of Ontology Mapping for Question-Answering / 48
Miklos Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera, and Enrico Motta

Using the Semantic Web to Support Ecoinformatics / 56
Joel Sachs, Cynthia Sims Parr, Andriy Parafiynk, Rong Pan, Lushan Han, Li Ding, Tim Finin, Allan Hollander, and David Wang

Distributed Creation and Revision of Domain Knowledge Based on Rich Semantic Web Clients / 62
Giovanni Tummarello, Christian Morbidoni, and Michele Nucci

Towards Semi-automatic Ontology Building Supported by Large-Scale Knowledge Acquisition / 70
Yimin Wang, Johanna Völker, and Peter Haase

Model-based Clustering on Semantically Heterogeneous Distributed Databases on the Internet / 8
Shuai Zhang, Sally McClean, and Bryan Scotney

Short Papers

Representing and Reasoning with Modular Ontologies / 86
Jie Bao and Vasant Honavar

GuNQ — A Semantic Web Engine with a Keyword Based Query Approach / 90
Nipun Bhatia, Prashant Gaharwar, and Pratyus Patniak

UDDI Registry for Knowledge Discovery in Databases Services / 94
Claudia Diamantini, Domenica Potena, and Jessica Cellini

Building Knowledge about Buildings / 98
Matthew T. Young and Eyal Amir

Extended Abstracts

An Ontological Approach to Geoscience Dataset Cataloging / 102
M. B. Blumenthal, J. del Corral, M. Bell, and E. Grover-Kopec

Collaborative Knowledge Sharing for E-Science / 104
Kirk D. Borne and Timothy Eastman

VIVO: Case Study of an Ontolgy-Based Web Site / 106
Brian Caruso, Brian J. Lowe, Jon Corson-Rikert, and Medha Devare

Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous NASA Mission Data Sources / 108
Richard M. Keller, Daniel C. Berrios, Shawn R. Wolfe, David R. Hall, and Ian B. Sturken

Inter-translation of Biomedical Coding Schemes Using UMLS / 110
Jeffrey L. Painter, Kristopher M. Kleiner, and Gary H. Merrill