<div dir="ltr">--Apologies for cross-posting--<br><br><br>This is the third call for systems for the 2016 edition of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI): <a href="http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2016/">http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2016/</a><br><br>Since 2004, OAEI has been supporting the extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching techniques.<br><br>This year we will have two new tracks (Disease and Phenotype, and Process Model Matching) and new datasets with respect to some of the last year tracks.<br><br><br>NEWS: PRIZE AND SPECIAL ISSUE<br>------------------------------<br><br>Authors of (1) the best biomedical-themed papers, (2) system papers with competitive results in the OAEI biomedical-themed tracks, and (3) biomedical-themed dataset descriptions will be invited to submit an extended version of their contributions to be considered in a special issue of the Journal of Biomedical Semantics (JBMS): <a href="http://jbiomedsem.biomedcentral.com/">http://jbiomedsem.biomedcentral.com/</a>. <br><br>The Pistoia Alliance Ontologies Mapping project (<a href="http://www.pistoiaalliance.org/projects/ontologies-mapping/">http://www.pistoiaalliance.org/projects/ontologies-mapping/</a>) team will organise the Disease and Phenotype track and <br>will sponsor a prize of $7,500 for the winner of this track.<br><br>Registration of tools/interest in participating: deadline on June 30th!<br><br><br><br>CONFIRMED TRACKS<br>------------------<br><br> Benchmark<br><br> Anatomy<br><br> Conference<br><br> Multifarm<br><br> Interactive Matching (New datasets)<br><br> Large Biomedical Ontologies<br><br> Disease and Phenotype (New track)<br><br> Process Model Matching (New track)<br><br> Instance Matching (New datasets)<br><br><br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br>------------------<br><br>Note that this year the submission of systems is one month earlier: July 31st<br> <br> June 1st: (preliminary) datasets available.<br><br> June 30th: datasets are frozen.<br><br> June 30th: participants register their tool (i.e. interest in participating): <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ne1w0J6iwRbXPo6Sxr1hb2qu45HLWN6QM4tLUqfYE84/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ne1w0J6iwRbXPo6Sxr1hb2qu45HLWN6QM4tLUqfYE84/viewform</a><br><br> July 31st: participants submit final versions of their tools (details will be sent after registration).<br><br> August 31st: evaluation is executed and results are analyzed.<br><br> September 30th: preliminary version of system papers due<br><br> October 17th or 18th: Ontology matching workshop.<br><br> November 15th: final version of system papers due. <br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz<br>Research Assistant<br>
Department of Computer Science<br>
University of Oxford<br>Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK<br><br><a href="http://krono.act.uji.es/people/Ernesto" target="_blank">http://krono.act.uji.es/people/Ernesto</a><br><a href="http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ernesto.jimenez-ruiz/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/ernesto.jimenez-ruiz/</a><br><br><br></div></div>
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