Automatic Annotation of Web Services based on Workflow Definitions

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A paper written by Suzanne M. Embury, Carole A. Goble, Norman W. Paton, Khalid Belhajjame and Robert Stevens. It was presented at the ISWC2006.

[edit] Abstract

Semantic annotations of web services can facilitate the discovery of services, as well as their composition into workflows. At present, however, the practical utility of such annotations is limited by the small number of service annotations available for general use. Resources for manual annotation are scarce, and therefore some means is required by which services can be automatically (or semi-automatically) annotated. In this paper, we show how information can be inferred about the semantics of operation parameters based on their connections to other (annotated) operation parameters within tried-and-tested workflows. In an open-world context, we can infer only constraints on the semantics of parameters, but these loose annotations are still of value in detecting errors within workflows, annotations and ontologies, as well as in simplifying the manual annotation task.

The schedule for this talk can be found in the conference programme and a linked list of all talks is provided in the article on ISWC2006 papers. This article has originally been created from the RDF metadata for ISWC 2006.