Semantic Scientific Knowledge Integration
Papers from the 2008 AAAI Spring Symposium
Deborah L. McGuinness, Peter Fox, and Boyan Brodaric, Program Cochairs
Technical Report SS-08-05. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
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Contents
Organizing Committee / 1
Deborah L. McGuinness, Peter Fox, and Boyan Brodaric
Semantic Scientific Knowledge Integration / 1
Deborah L. McGuinness, Peter Fox, and Boyan Brodaric
DOLCE ROCKS: Integrating Geoscience Ontologies with DOLCE / 3
Boyan Brodaric and Florian Probst
Towards an Ontology for Data-driven Discovery of New Materials / 9
Kwok Cheung, John Drennan, and Jane Hunter
Ontological Bridge Building — Using Ontologies to Merge Spatial Datasets / 15
Catherine Dolbear and Glen Hart
Can AI Techniques Be Applied to Forest Science Data Integration Problems? / 21
Steven B. Dolins, Richard Condit, Hua-Ching Su, and Suzanne Lao
Improving Semantic Integration by Learning Semantic Interpretation Rules / 24
Michael Glass and Bruce Porter
Towards Semantics-Enabled Distributed Infrastructure for Knowledge Acquisition / 29
Vasant Honavar and Doina Caragea
An Ontology Mapping Approach to Integrating Earth Science Metadata / 36
Richard M. Keller, Rajkumar Thirumalainambi, and Joseph C. Coughlan
Integrating Declarative Knowledge: Issues, Algorithms and Future Work / 42
Doo Soon Kim and Bruce Porter
A Semantic Enhanced Search for Spatial Web Portals / 47
Wenwen Li, Chaowei Yang, and Rob Raskin
Scientific Data and Document Processing in ChemxSeer / 51
Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles, Bingjun Sun, Ying Liu, and Anuj R. Jaiswal
Learning to Improve Earth Observation Flight Planning / 57
Robert A. Morris, Nikunj Oza, Leslie Keely, and Elif Kürklü
Opportunities for Semantic Technologies in the NASA Heliophysics Data Environment / 63
Tom Narock, Adam Szabo, and Jan Merka
LexSearch: An Approach for Leveraging Semantic Annotations to Searching Ontologies / 68
Jyotishman Pathak, James D. Buntrock, and Christopher G. Chute
Semantic Mediation in the National Geologic Map Database (US) / 74
David Percy, Stephen Richard, and David Soller
HydroTagger: A Tool for Semantic Mapping of Hydrologic Terms / 77
Michael Piasecki
Semantic Science and Machine-Accessible Scientific Theories / 81
David Poole, Clinton Smyth, and Rita Sharma
Use of a Quantitative Research Ontology in e-Science / 87
Hago Rijgersberg, Jan Top, and Marcel Meinders
Medical Imaging on the Semantic Web: Annotation and Image Markup / 93
Daniel L. Rubin, Pattanasak Mongkolwat, Vladimir Kleper, Kaustubh Supekar, and David S. Channin
Grounding the Foundations of Ontology Mapping on the Neglected Interoperability Ambition / 99
Hamid Haidarian Shahri, James Hendler, and Donald Perlis
Semantic Integration of Software Systems in Translational Clinical Trials / 105
Ravi D. Shankar, Martin J. O’Connor, David B. Parrish, and Amar K. Das
Answering Science Questions: Deduction with Answer Extraction and Procedural Attachment / 109
Richard Waldinger and Jeff Shrager
Progress for Ontology of Fractures and Faults / 114
Jian Zhong, Atilla Aydin, and Deborah McGuinness
Ontology-based Scientific Data Service Composition: A Query Rewriting-based Approach / 116
Linhua Zhou, Huajun Chen, Yu Tong, Jun Ma, and Zhaohui Wu
A Semantic Mapping System for Bridging the Gap between Relational Database and Semantic Web / 122
Linhua Zhou, Huajun Chen, Yu Zhang, and Chunying Zhou
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