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		<title>Tutorials at GeoS 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Third International Conference on Geospatial Semantics (GeoS 2009)
http://www.geosco.org/geos2009/
TUTORIAL 1:
Pascal Hitzler*, Markus Krötzsch, and Sebastian Rudolph, Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB), University of Karlsruhe, Germany
&#8216;OWL 2 Rules&#8217;
The revision 2 of the Web Ontology Language OWL is much richer than its predecessor OWL 1.0 with respect to modelling with rules. In particular, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2009/06/26/tutorials-at-geos-2009/</link>
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		<title>Third International Conference on Geospatial Semantics (GeoS 2009)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CALL FOR PAPERS
Third International Conference on Geospatial Semantics (GeoS 2009)
www.geosco.org
 Purpose and Scope
Geospatial semantics is an emerging research theme in the domain of geographic information systems and spatial databases. The previous editions of the conference – GeoS 2005 and GeoS 2007 in late November (Mexico City, Mexico) www.geosco.org were highly successful. We have received about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2009/06/26/cfp-third-international-conference-on-geospatial-semantics-geos-2009/</link>
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		<title>SIM-DL_A: A Novel Semantic Similarity Measure for Description Logics Reducing Inter-Concept to Inter-Instance Similarity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Abstract. While semantic similarity plays a crucial role for human categorization and reasoning, computational similarity measures have also been applied to fields such as semantics-based information retrieval or ontology engineering. Several measures have been developed to compare concepts specified in various description logics. In most cases, these measures are either structural or require a populated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2009/05/12/sim-dl_a-a-novel-semantic-similarity-measure-for-description-logics-reducing-inter-concept-to-inter-instance-similarity/</link>
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		<title>SIM-DL Server and Protege plug-in released beta2.3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new beta versions of the SIM-DL semantic similarity server and the Protege plug-in (for 3.3.x) are available at sourceforge. Please note that this release contains a lot of experimental new features and is unstable (so using  beta 2.2 may be a better idea in some cases). The new features (e.g., similarity estimations) are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2008/08/12/sim-dl-server-and-protege-plug-in-released-beta23/</link>
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		<title>Human participants test on the visualization of result sets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are currently running a small web-based human participants test on the visualization of result sets in information retrieval processes. We would greatly appreciate your help with this test, which should not take more than ten minutes to complete.
» start test
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		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2008/07/26/human-participants-test-on-the-visualization-of-result-sets/</link>
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		<title>SIM-DL Server and Protege Plug-in released (beta2.2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are happy to announce the release of the next beta version (2.2) of our SimCat similarity server and Protege plug-in! The new release contains several bug fixes and a context logger. The next release will focus on performance issues.
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		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2008/03/01/sim-dl-server-and-protege-plug-in-released-beta22/</link>
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		<title>Information Semantics and its Implications for Geographic Analysis (ISGA &#8216;08)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Semantic similarity measurement will be one of the workshop themes at the First International Workshop on Information Semantics and its Implications for Geographic Analysis (ISGA &#8216;08) co-located with the GIScience 2008 conference in Utah, US.
Call for papers: http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~isga08/
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		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2008/02/19/information-semantics-and-its-implications-for-geographic-analysis-isga-08/</link>
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		<title>SIM-DL Server and Protege Plug-in released (beta2.1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are happy to announce the release of the next beta version (2.1) of our SimCat similarity server and Protege plug-in! The new release contains some major improvements such as an extended context model with several kinds of contexts, caching,  lazy unfolding and a more intuitive user guidance for the plug-in.
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		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2008/01/06/sim-dl-server-and-protege-plug-in-released-beta21/</link>
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		<title>Kinds of Contexts and their Impact on Semantic Similarity Measurement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The final draft of my paper about the impact of context on semantic similarity accepted for CoMoRea 2008:
Abstract: Semantic similarity measurement gained attention over the last years as a non-standard inference service for various kinds of knowledge representations including description logics. Most existing similarity measures compute an undirected overall similarity, i.e., they do not take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2008/01/06/kinds-of-contexts-and-their-impact-on-semantic-similarity-measurement/</link>
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		<title>CfP: TGIS Special Issue on Semantic Similarity Measurement and Geospatial Applications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Special Issue on Semantic Similarity Measurement and Geospatial Applications
Editors:

Krzystof Janowicz, University of Muenster, Germany 
Martin Raubal, University of California at Santa Barbara, U.S.A. 
Angela Schwering, University of Osnabrueck, Germany 
Werner Kuhn, University of Muenster, Germany


Semantic similarity measurement is central for enabling semantic interoperability between geographic information systems and web services as well as for improving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2007/11/23/cfp-tgis-special-issue-on-semantic-similarity-measurement-and-geospatial-applications/</link>
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		<title>Similarity and Context - Papers added</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following papers have been added to the similarity and context section:
[132] V. Kashyap, and A. Sheth (1996) Schematic and Semantic Similarities between Database Objects: A Context-based Approach. VLDB Journal 5 (4), pp 276-304 [PDF] (external link) 
[133] Ke&#223;ler, C.; Raubal, M.; Janowicz, K. (2007; forthcoming) The Effect of Context on Semantic Similarity Measurement. 3rd [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2007/09/06/similarity-and-context-papers-added/</link>
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		<title>Algorithm, Implementation and Application of the SIM-DL Similarity Server</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our paper submitted to the  Second International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics (GeoS 2007) has been accepted for publication. I am especially happy about this, because I&#8217;ve published my first similarity paper two years ago at the first GeoS conference. Beside the SIM-DL similarity server and Protege plug-in, we will also present our application area, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2007/09/03/algorithm-implementation-and-application-of-the-sim-dl-similarity-server/</link>
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		<title>A new version of the SIM-DL similarity server has been released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first beta version of the SIM-DL similarity server and Protege plug-in is available at sourceforge for download!
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		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2007/08/31/a-new-version-of-the-sim-dl-similarity-server-has-been-released/</link>
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		<title>New Papers added&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; about 20 new similarity papers&#160; have been added to the literature section.
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		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2007/08/18/news-papers-added/</link>
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		<title>SIM-DL server alpha2 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today the second alpha version of the SIM-DL similarity server was released. It can be downloaded from the sourceforge repository: SIM-DL. A new version of the Protege SIM-DL plug-in is also available.
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		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2007/08/17/sim-dl-server-alpha2-released/</link>
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		<title>Semantic Similarity Workshop: Papers and Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The workshop program and the accepted papers for the semantic similarity workshop held in conjunction with COSIT 2007 are online. Read more&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2007/07/26/semantic-similarity-workshop-papers-and-program/</link>
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		<title>GeoS 2007 Deadline Extension</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a short note, the deadline of the GeoS conference has be extended to the June 30. One of the topics is similarity comparisons of spatial datasets.
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		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2007/06/19/geos-2007-deadline-extension/</link>
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		<title>Deadline Extension for the COSIT Similarity Workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The deadline for the Similarity Workshop held in conjunction with the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2007) has been extended to the 8th June.
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		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2007/05/31/deadline-extension-for-the-cosit-similarity-workshop/</link>
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		<title>Call for Papers: GeoS 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Geospatial semantics is an emerging research theme in the domain of geographic information systems and spatial databases. The first edition of the conference GeoS 2005, November 29-30, 2005, Mexico City, Mexico www.geosco.org/geos2005.htm was highly successful. We have received about 50 submissions, from which 15 regular and 4 short articles have been published in Volume 3799 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2007/04/18/call-for-papers-geos-2007/</link>
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		<title>Similarity Server Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a short report on our progress in developing a DIG compliant semantic similarity measurement server for the description logic ALCNQ: The server consists of three parts, the ALCNQ reasoner that checks for ABOX satisfiability (and therefore also subsumption), a DIG server based on the Jetty Web server and finally the similarity module. Up to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.similarity-blog.de/2007/03/31/similarity-server-progress/</link>
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