Ontologies and Search

OntoQuery Workshop - January 18-19, 2001

Sponsor: Ontoquery project

Organisers: Troels Andreasen, Jørgen Fischer Nilsson, Hanne Erdman Thomsen (chair)

Venue: Copenhagen Business School,

Dalgas Have 15, Frederiksberg

Room 1.Ø.089

Thursday:

13.30-15.30 Crash course on Description Logic, by Patrick Lambrix

Course material:

See the webpage http://www.ida.liu.se/labs/iislab/courses/DL-OntoQuery/

The page is under construction, most of the material such as slides and literature list will be added in January.

15.30-16 Coffee break

16-17.30 Nicola Guarino: Top-level ontological distinctions: some methodology and a proposal

19 Workshop dinner for all participants

Friday:

9-9.30 Hanne Erdman Thomsen: Presentation of the project OntoQuery

9.30-9.45 Troels Andreasen: Presentation of the prototype

9.45-10.15 Troels Andreasen: Search in OntoQuery

10.30-11.15 Bolette Sandford Pedersen: The SIMPLE lexicon and the prototype ontology

and Presentation of Nordic Network on cross-lingual information retrieval

11.30-12.15 Jørgen Fischer Nilsson: Generative Ontologies

12.15-13.15 Lunch

13.15-14 Patrick Lambrix: Document search using part-of reasoning in description logics

14-14.30 Coffee

14.30-15.30 Panel discussion: A graphical tool for navigating in an ontology

Panel: Bodil Nistrup Madsen; Hanne Erdman Thomsen; Hans Bruun; Nikolaj Oldager

15.30-17 Comments, questions and discussion of the project by invited researchers