BOEMIE 2008

Workshop on

Ontology Evolution and
Multimedia Information Extraction

a collocated event to

SAMT 2008 – 3rd International Conference on
Semantic and Digital Media Technologies

December 2, 2008, Koblenz, Germany

 

 

Motivation and Scope

BOEMIE 2008 focused on the automation of the process of knowledge acquisition from multimedia content, using evolving multimedia ontologies for the extraction of information from multimedia content in networked sources. The goal was to develop synergistic approaches that combine multimedia extraction and ontology evolution in a bootstrapping process involving, on the one hand, the continuous extraction of semantic information from multimedia content in order to populate and enrich the ontologies and, on the other hand, the deployment of these ontologies to enhance the robustness of the extraction process.

The workshop was tightly coupled with the BOEMIE project, aiming to initiate a new research activity on the automation of knowledge acquisition from multimedia content, through computer-aided ontology evolution. The resulting technology will have a wide range of applications in commerce, tourism, e-science, publishing, etc. During the project, the technology was evaluated through the development of an automatic content collection and annotation service for public events in a number of major European cities. The extracted semantic information enriches the underlying ontology as well as a digital map, which provides a friendly interface to the end user.

Topics

The workshop included contributions to all research topics related to the BOEMIE project. We expected significant and fruitful discussions owing to differences in potential approaches in handling the issues above. The detailed topics of the workshop include but were not limited to the following:

  • Knowledge driven multimedia analysis
  • Multimedia ontologies
  • Multimedia reasoning
  • Ontology learning
  • Ontology evolution
  • Ontology matching and coordination
  • Handling multiple vocabularies
  • Interoperability among current multimedia and Semantic Web standards
  • Automatic and semi-automatic content annotation tools
  • Bridging the gap between multimedia features and semantics

Speakers

Welcome and introduction to Workshop

Silvana Castano,

Dipartimento di Informatica e Communicazione (DICO), University of Milano (UNIMI), Italy

Ralf Möller,   

Software, Technology and Systems (STS),  Hamburg University of Technology  (TUHH), Germany

Introduction to BOEMIE project   

George Paliouras, Abstract   Presentation

Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications (IIT), National Center of Scientific Research (NCSR “Demokritos”), Greece

Multimedia Information Extraction   

Jerry Hobbs, Abstract   Presentation

Information Sciences Institute (ISI), University of Southern California, USA

Sergios Petridis, Abstract  Presentation

Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications (IIT), National Center of Scientific Research (NCSR “Demokritos”), Greece

Multimedia Ontologies

Steffen Staab,  Abstract   Presentation

Information Systems and Semantic Web (ISWeb), University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Abstract   Presentation

Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece


 Multimedia and Reasoning

Umberto Straccia, Abstract   Presentation

Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), National Research Council (CNR), Italy

Sofia Espinosa, and Atila Kaya, Abstract   Presentation

Software, Technology and Systems (STS), Hamburg University of Technology  (TUHH), Germany
 

Ontology Learning and Evolution

Giorgos Flouris, Abstract   Presentation

Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, (FORTH), Greece

Alfio Ferrara, Abstract   Presentation

Dipartimento di Informatica e Communicazione (DICO), University of Milano (UNIMI), Italy

Panel coordinator 

Silvana Castano, and Ralf Möller,

 

Organizers and Chairs

Silvana Castano, <castano at dico dot unimi dot it>
University of Milano, Italy

Alfio Ferrara, <ferrara at dico dot unimi dot it>
University of Milano, Italy

Ralf Möller, <r dot f dot moeller at tuhh dot de>
Hamburg University of Technology, Germany

George Paliouras, <paliourg at iit dot demokritos dot gr>
NCSR Demokritos, Greece

Irma Sofia Espinosa Peraldi, <sofia dot espinosa at tuhh dot de>
Hamburg University of Technology, Germany

 

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