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India, 9-10 November, 2006
Important dates
Papers are invited regarding all the topics covered by the workshop.
Paper submission deadline: May 30, 2006
Announcement of paper acceptance: June 15, 2006
Camera-ready paper submission deadline: July 29, 2006
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  The benefits of ontologies can only be fully exploited if they are used efficiently within information systems for extraction of ‘unknown’ knowledge. In today’s exponentially growing information world, there is a mounting need to extract the most important information in the shortest possible time. It has become vital to have systems that are able to provide the most relevant results, while sieving through mushrooming information systems, websites, publications, forums, blogs etc. Although cataloguing and indexing resources are important steps, it is becoming increasingly difficult to accomplish these tasks due to the lack of skilled personnel, the cost of cataloguing and the rapid growth of the available information resources.
Considerable work has been done to date in the area of knowledge capture through the use of subject and process ontologies. The AOS project covers, under its name, ontologies on Food and Nutrition, Food Safety, Animal and Plant Health, Fisheries, etc., each of which captures knowledge in a specific domain area of agriculture. The complete multilingual AGROVOC Thesaurus, also available in the form of an ontology, is rich with translations, synonyms and relations. All of these ontologies have been used in information systems to provide improved access to information. However, much of this can be further enhanced through the efficient use of ontologies for extracting the unknown and hidden pieces of knowledge, not only for providing efficient search results to the users but also for iteratively improving the ontology itself. We can achieve this only through the explicit formalization of domain knowledge through its elicitation from experts and by linking the ontologies to actual or instance data.
The activities of the AOS initiative are documented at: http://www.fao.org/aims
Agriculture Ontology Service / Concept Server (AOS/CS) |
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Howard Beck, University of Florida, USA
Jayantha Chaterjee, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Johannes Keizer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy
Gauri Salokhe, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy
Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland, USA
Zhong Wang, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China |
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