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# ESOE 2007
International Workshop on Emergent Semantics and Ontology Evolution

### Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Emergent Semantics and Ontology Evolution
ESOE 2007
co-located with ISWC 2007 + ASWC 2007
Busan, Korea, November 12th, 2007.

Edited by

### Luke Liming Chen, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, UK.
Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland.
Peter Haase, Institute AIFB at University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Andreas Hotho, KDE Group at University of Kassel, Germany.
Ernie Ong, SAP CEC Research Centre, Belfast, UK.

You can download the complete proceedings as a single PDF-file (~3MB) here.

## Table of Contents

### Invited papers

1. Emergent Semantics Systems
   Karl Aberer, pages 1-2
2. Ontology Learning: Where are we? And where are we going?
   Paul Buitelaar, pages 3-4

   ### Research Papers

3. The Ontology Maturing Approach for Collaborative and Work Integrated Ontology Development: Evaluation Results and Future Directions
   Simone Braun, Andreas Schmidt, Andreas Walter, and Valentin Zacharias, pages 5-18
4. Understanding and Supporting Ontology Evolution by Observing the WWW Conference
   Nicolas Guelfi, Cédric Pruski, and Chantal Reynaud, pages 19-32
5. A Framework for Cooperative Ontology Construction Based on Dependency Management of Modules
   Kouji Kozaki, Eiichi Sunagawa, Yoshinobu Kitamura, and Riichiro Mizoguchi, pages 33-44
6. Vocabulary Patterns in Free-for-all Collaborative Indexing Systems
   Wolfgang Maass, Tobias Kowatsch, and Timo Münster, pages 45-57
7. Ontology Revision as Non-Prioritized Belief Revision
   Mauro Mazzieri and Aldo Franco Dragoni, pages 58-69
8. Dynamic Ontology Co-Evolution from Texts: Principles and Case Study
   Kévin Ottens, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Marie-Pierre Gleizes, and Valérie Camps, pages 70-83
9. Extreme Tagging: Emergent Semantics through the Tagging of Tags
   Vlad Tanasescu and Olga Streibel, pages 84-94
10. The HCOME-3O Framework for Supporting the Collaborative Engineering of Evolving Ontologies
    George A. Vouros, Konstantinos Kotis, Christos Chalkiopoulos, and Nikoleta Lelli, pages 95-107
11. Understanding the Semantics of Ambiguous Tags in Folksonomies
    Ching-man Au Yeung, Nicholas Gibbins, and Nigel Shadbolt, pages 108-121

submitted by Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, 13-Nov-2007
published on CEUR-WS.org, 13-Nov-2007