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IJCAI'2001 Workshop on

Ontology Learning

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Ontology Learning OL'2001
Seattle, USA, August 4, 2001.

Held in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI'2001, Seattle, USA

Alexander Maedche*
Steffen Staab*
Claire Nedellec #*
Ed Hovy

* University of Karlsruhe, Institute AIFB, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
# Université Paris Sud, LRI, 91405-ORSAY, France
+ University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, California, USA

Table of Contents

Full Papers

1. Automatic Construction and Refinement of a Class Hierarchy over Semi-Structured Data
   N. Pernelle, M-C. Rousset, V. Ventos.
2. Learning Ontologies from RDF annotations.
   A. Delteil, C. Faron-Zucker, R. Dieng.
3. Acquiring Conceptual Relationships from Domain-Specific Texts
   T. Yamaguchi.
4. Learning Relations Using Collocations.
   G. Heyer, M. Läuter, U. Quasthoff, T. Wittig, C. Wolf
5. Rule Induction for Concept Hierarchy Alignment
   R. Ichise, H. Takeda, S. Honiden

Short/Position Papers

1. Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge Management
   C. Brewster, F.Ciravegna, Y. Wilks
2. Using Information Extraction Rules for Extending Domain Ontologies
   M. Sintek, M. Junker, L. van Elst, A. Abecker
3. Template Driven Information Extraction for Populating Ontologies
   M. Vargas-Vera, J. Domingue, Y.Kalfoglou, E. Motta, S. Buckingham-Shum
4. Acquisition of Ontological Knowledge from Canonical Documents
   R. Malyankar
5. Combining Statistics and Semantics for Word and Document Clustering
   A. Termier, M. Sebag, M.-C. Rousset
6. Constructing and Refining Ontologies within Explanation-Capable Agents
   M. Minock
7. An Information Theoretic Approach for Ontology-based Interest Matching
   W. Koh, L. Mui