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UO CIS Student and Professors Win the Best Paper Award at DEXA 2015

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Fifth-Year CIS Ph.D. Student Shangpu Jiang and his research advisors, Professor Dejing Dou and Professor Daniel Lowd, won the Best Paper Award at DEXA 2015 from among 128 papers.

DEXA is a well-known international conference in database, information, and knowledge systems. This year is its 26th edition. Jiang is the first author on the paper "Ontology Matching with Knowledge Rules," with Prof. Lowd and Prof Dou as co-authors. An ontology represents the formal structure of a domain, such as the types of data it contains and the relationships among them. Ontology matching allows data and knowledge from different sources to be integrated together in a single representation.

In their paper, Jiang, Lowd, and Dou present a new method for ontology matching, which uses similarities in knowledge as well ontology structure to find better matches. Their method is particularly effective at identifying correspondences between complex ontological concepts. This research has been supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation with Prof. Dou and Prof. Lowd as PI and co-PI respectively.

Congratulations to Shangpu Jiang, Professor Dou, and Professor Lowd!