[CEUR Workshop Proceedings] Vol-31

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ECAI'2000 Workshop on

Ontology Learning

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Ontology Learning OL'2000
Berlin, Germany, August 25, 2000.

Held in conjunction with the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI'2000, Berlin, Germany

Edited by

Steffen Staab*
Alexander Maedche*
Claire Nedellec #*
Peter Wiemer-Hastings+

* University of Karlsruhe, Institute AIFB, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
# Université Paris Sud, LRI, 91405-ORSAY, France
+ University of Edinburgh, Division of Informatics, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, UK




Table of Contents

Full Papers

  1. Learning Classification taxonomies from a classification knowledge based system.
    H. Suryanto and P. Compton.
  2. First experiments of using semantic knowledge learned by ASIUM for information extraction task using INTEX.
    D. Faure and T. Poibeau.
  3. Designing Clustering Methods for Ontology Building - The Mo'K Workbench.
    G.Bisson, C. Nedellec and D. Canamero.
  4. SVETLAN' - A System to Classify Words in Context.
    G. de Chaelandar and B. Grau
  5. Enriching very large ontologies using the WWW.
    E. Agirre, O. Ansa, E. Hovy, D. Martinez
  6. Using Description Logics for Ontology Extraction.
    A. Todirascu, F. de Beuvron, D. Galea, F. Rousselot
  7. Enriching a lexical semantic net with selectional preferences by means of statistical corpus analysis.
    A. Wagner
  8. An Instance-based Approach for Identifying Candidate Ontology Relations within a Multi-Agent System.
    A.B Williams and C. Tsatsoulis

Position Papers

  1. An Ontology Enrichment Method for a Pragmatic Information Extraction System gathering Data on Genetic Interactions.
    C. Roux, D. Proux, F. Rechenmann and L. Julliar
  2. On Efficiency of Learning: A Framework and Justification.
    J. Bucha
  3. A General Framework for Theory Learning. Perspectives for NLP.
    J. Alvarez
  4. Background Knowledge, Indexing and Matching Interdependencies of Document Management and Ontology-Maintenance.
    A. Faatz, T. Kamps, R. Steinmetz

submitted by A. Maedche, June, 25, 2000