Knowledge Engineering: Practice and Patterns

Knowledge is considered as the most important asset in our modern society. It has now penetrated all facets of computing practice: from the rise of knowledge management to the Semantic Web and from the blog culture to the knowledge economy. This penetration has made proper knowledge engineering a most - quired feature. This volume contains the papers presented at the 16th International C- ference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2008) held in Acitrezza, Sicily, Italy, September 29 to October 3 2008. EKAW 2008 is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modelling and managing knowledge, and their role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services for the Semantic Web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent integration information, etc. This year we paid special attention to the topic of knowledge patterns that can be considered as good practice or models that are applied or reused throughout the knowledge engineering life cycle. Hence, beyond traditional t- icsofEKAW,wesolicitedpapersthatcoverresearchonhowtodescribe,classify, model, extract and apply knowledge patterns in the design of ontologies, app- cations and products. We have paid special attention to the description of ex- riences that involve the application and identi?cation of knowledge patterns in social network analysis, natural language processing, multimedia analysis, p- tern recognition, etc.

Klappentext
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2008, held in Acitrezza, Sicily, Italy, in September/October 2008. The 17 revised full papers and 15 revised short papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge patterns and knowledge representation, matching ontologies and data integration, natural language, knowledge acquisition and annotations, search, query and interaction, as well as ontologies.

Inhalt
Invited Talks.- Knowledge Patterns.- Computational Semantics and Knowledge Engineering.- Principles for Knowledge Engineering on the Web.- Knowledge Patterns and Knowledge Representation.- Applying Ontology Design Patterns in Bio-ontologies.- A Pattern and Rule-Based Approach for Reusing Adaptive Hypermedia Creator's Models.- Natural Language-Based Approach for Helping in the Reuse of Ontology Design Patterns.- On the Influence of Description Logics Ontologies on Conceptual Similarity.- Polishing Diamonds in OWL 2.- Formalizing Ontology Modularization through the Notion of Interfaces.- Correspondence Patterns for Ontology Alignment.- Matching Ontologies and Data Integration.- Learning Disjointness for Debugging Mappings between Lightweight Ontologies.- Towards a Rule-Based Matcher Selection.- An Analysis of the Origin of Ontology Mismatches on the Semantic Web.- Preference-Based Uncertain Data Integration.- Natural Language, Knowledge Acquisition and Annotations.- Unsupervised Discovery of Compound Entities for Relationship Extraction.- Formal Concept Analysis: A Unified Framework for Building and Refining Ontologies.- Contextualized Knowledge Acquisition in a Personal Semantic Wiki.- Using the Intension of Classes and Properties Definition in Ontologies for Word Sense Disambiguation.- Mapping General-Specific Noun Relationships to WordNet Hypernym/Hyponym Relations.- Analysing Ontological Structures through Name Pattern Tracking.- Semi-automatic Construction of an Ontology and of Semantic Annotations from a Discussion Forum of a Community of Practice.- OMEGA: An Automatic Ontology Metadata Generation Algorithm.- Automatic Tag Suggestion Based on Resource Contents.- Integration of Semantically Annotated Data by the KnoFuss Architecture.- Search, Query and Interaction.- A Visual Approach to Semantic Query Design Using a Web-Based Graphical Query Designer.- Search Query Generation with MCRDR Document Classification Knowledge.- Ontological Profiles in Enterprise Search.- Ontologies.- A Generic Ontology for Collaborative Ontology-Development Workflows.- GoodRelations: An Ontology for Describing Products and Services Offers on the Web.- An Ontology-Centric Approach to Sensor-Mission Assignment.- Ontology Based Legislative Drafting: Design and Implementation of a Multilingual Knowledge Resource.- Situated Cognition in the Semantic Web Era.- E-Business Vocabularies as a Moving Target: Quantifying the Conceptual Dynamics in Domains.- A Platform for Object-Action Semantic Web Interaction.